Foundational Guiding Principles

1. By: Jeff Houchens
GDN3101
August 15, 2015

2. Topics
• Abstract
• My Mission
• My Vision
• My Values
• My Purpose
• Leading-Up
• Leading-Across
• Leading-Down

3. The foundation of leadership starts with identifying a leaders own personal
mission, vision, values and purpose. Each statement consists of the
individual’s beliefs, motivations, action plan and long-term goals. As a
leader, each person has the opportunity to, not only influence followers,
but also influence peers, and managers. The terms used for these
leadership methods are leading-up, leading-across, and leading-down.
Below I will go over my leadership statements and explain how I will
accomplish leading 360-degrees based on my statements.

4. My mission is to come to work each day with a positive
attitude, to perform my duties to the best of my abilities,
to pay attention to all details of the job, to support our
customers will the highest professionalism, and to promote
a positive atmosphere within my team.

5. In the next five years, I see myself in a leadership position
at my Internet Data Center. I will achieve this position
through my continued support of my fellow teammates and
by proving to management that I have the skills and
commitment to lead. I will prove myself in the next five
years by continuing to demonstrate that I can influence and
motivate my team members and help them grow in their
positions.

6. I believe in trust, commitment, openness, accountability,
respect, honesty, transparency, and professional
communication. As a leader, I believe these values will
help govern my actions throughout any situation.

7. My purpose for being employed as an IT Technician at
CenturyLink is to support external and internal customers in
the day to day operations of their businesses. Through
professional support, I can resolve any issues they have
within a timely manner to limit the risk of a long term
outage or loss of service.

8. In light of your Leadership Development
Goals and as a potential 360-degree
leader, how could you use your Values and
Purpose to Lead-Up?
In light of my leadership development goals and as a
potential 360-degree leader, I will use my values and
purpose as a way to ground and lead myself. At my current
employer, I take pride in my work and ensure I have open
communication with my peers and other departments. It
has helped me develop relationships with managers and
leaders in other division who come to me for advise and my
opinion for new processes or installations. Not only does
this make me valuable in the organization, it also takes
some burden off my current manager.

9. In light of your Leadership Development
Goals and as a potential 360-degree
leader, how could you use your Mission to
Lead-Across?
In light of my leadership development goals and as a
potential 360-degree leader, I will use my mission to lead-
across by coming into the office each day with a positive
attitude and by doing my job to the best of my abilities. If I
come in each day caring about my position and helping
others with theirs, I will not only succeed in leading across,
I will be helping my peers become potential leaders as well.
If a peer or customer is also being negative, I can help to
redirect the negative energy by helping with whatever issue
they’re having with a positive attitude.

10. In light of your Leadership Development
Goals and as a potential 360-degree
leader, how could you use your Vision to
Lead-Down?
In light of my leadership development goals and as a potential
360-degree leader, I will use my vision to lead-down by getting
to know each individual I work with over the years to come.
Once I get to know them better, I can understand their
strengths and weaknesses on the job. Once I understand their
strengths and weaknesses, I can help their strengths get even
stronger and turn their weaknesses into strengths. If I can help
them to succeed, they will look to me as a leader, mentor and
roll model. As that leader, I need to remain consistent in
everything I do on the job in order to establish a baseline of
stability for everyone else.