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The Seven Intentions^® of Values-Centered Leadership

1. Connect With Goodness

The purpose of “connecting” is to create a personal orientation or relation to others, to nature, and to a higher power of goodness. In choosing relation over isolation,we become open to this force of goodness, willing to be led by it, and ready to do our part, our role, in the day.

Many of us in leadership roles assume an attitude of self-sufficiency in making choices that affect others, and the result can be behavior that is closed to suggestions and controlling of others’ wills. By choosing to “connect” with a force of goodness greater than ourselves,we leaders are admitting that the solutions for today's needs will come from numerous sources, some from us, some from others.

Others in leadership are so open to process with others that they lose their own center and confidence in a multi-perspective environment. By choosing to Connect With Goodness, these leaders are seeking to be grounded in a source and faith that helps them keep their center and balance.

Just as an attitude of openness and relatedness assists in our professional roles, so does the idea of relationship help us to live fully. “Being in relation” allows us to be present to the dynamics of family, neighbors, society, nature, and other sources of faith. Through relation we live fully. The opposite of relation is isolation. And in the words of philosopher, Jonathan Edwards,“One alone is nothing”. “Connecting” is a choice for being part of a relation more powerful than self.

LEARNING OBJECTIVE FOR INTENTION #1
Learn to use goodness as a source of wisdom and strength and way to connect with each other.