Our understanding of our ‘worth’ is partly held in the response of others: when we are rejected (from a relationship, or a new job), it can damage our sense of worth. Similarly, when we are told we have failed, or ‘performed’ poorly, it can erode our sense of what we can achieve and become self limited in the long run.
As we explore in the work on ‘Imperfect Leadership’, the reality is that we all fail, because leadership is inherently imperfect. We are accountable in so may ways, in so many different systems, that it’s impossible to ‘score’ perfectly in almost any context.
In a view of Social Leadership, this is probably where our Community is relevant: no matter how we are doing in our ‘job’, we are still in our Community (even if we are made redundant).
Part of our role within those Communities is perhaps to help people find, or build, their sense of worth, especially when the world is turned against them.
Use your sixty seconds today to consider this: how do you trade in ‘worth’.
How do you earn it, or feel it, and what ‘costs’ erode it.
Part of this may be about reputation, but possibly more than that. Whatever it is, there are times when everyone feels that they are an imposter, a failure, or rejected. And part of Social Leadership may be to support a longer perspective, within a safer space.
