Day #92

Reputation

In Social Leadership, your ‘reputation’ may generate Social Authority. Reputation is the foundation of our power (much as hierarchy is the foundation of formal power).

So what is your Reputation?

Use your sixty seconds today to write three words that you believe would be used to write your reputation.

Then write three more, which you hope would not be used.

Why did you choose those words? What was the foundation of your hope, or fear?

If you feel brave, or safe, use this exercise with one other person, and discuss the words that you each choose.

Do any of the words that they chose surprise you? Do any of the words annoy you? Use this as the foundation for a conversation.

Our reputation is always a work in progress: nobody gets it right all the time.

Being mindful of where you stand, and respectful of the words that others choose, using this as an opportunity for growth, is important.