A fractional CFO shares a personal exercise to identify the three traits you want to be known for as a leader. Two years ago, they landed on being present, joyful, and energized. The piece asks: who do your followers think you actually are?
Leadership is about consistent values, discussions, and demonstrations, as well as tone. So it's three points values, discussions, value, demonstration, and your tone. I went through an exercise about two years ago now where I really thought to myself, what do I want to be known as? I didn't put it in these, in the term of tone at the time, but as I went through this exercise, that's what it was. I said, I want to be known for three things. I want to be known for being present, I want to be known for being joyful, and I want to be known for being energized. That's the tone that I want people to associate with me. You've got to think through who do I want to be known as? What do I want the people that I'm leading to see me as.
