Leadership

Harnessing values and leading in a crisis

Harnessing values and leading in a crisis

In challenging times, our values can be tested. What is really important to us? Are we focussing on the right things? If we don’t know the answers to those questions, it’s a great time to pause and reflect, so we can let our values guide what is most important to us. Every upset we face is an opportunity for growth. In our values-based leadership work with parliamentarians we talk about pausing to ask ourselves what we call "transformative questions" for those times when we are being challenged.

Values-based leadership is the way to cut through personality politics and have political insiders start fixing their own system by repairing Australia’s future-making system.

Values-based leadership is the way to cut through personality politics and have political insiders start fixing their own system by repairing Australia’s future-making system.

The 2019 Australian Election Study found that only 25% of Australians believe that people in government can be trusted — a record low. The recently released 2020 Edelman Trust Barometer found that government leaders are close to being the least trusted, globally, to address countries’ challenges. But this isn’t really news, or a surprise, to most Australians. Whatever your analysis of the trust crisis globally, I’m sure we can all agree that there is something unprecedented going on when it comes to trust and confidence in democracy and its institutions.