What Is Your Leadership Point Of View?

As a business owner, having great leadership skills is paramount to having success in your business. In order to achieve the results you want, you have to be able to effectively focus and lead your team. Your Leadership Point of View, or LPOV, is a process of self-exploration that helps you determine the key people that influenced your thoughts on leadership, your life purpose, your core values, and your beliefs about leadership. Developed by Ken Blanchard, Leadership Point of View is a very effective tool to help you understand and articulate your beliefs about leading and motivating people. So, why is this important?

Constructing a Leadership Point of View is important for various reasons. First off, it helps you to think through what leadership means to you. In my experience, most leaders have never thought about this. Going through the process of building your LPOV will help you to understand what your beliefs about leadership are, and how you arrived at them. Once you understand this, then you can articulate it to the people that you lead.

The LPOV is important to others, as it gives them an understanding of the essence of you as their leader. They will better understand who you are, how you think, what they can expect from you, as well as what you expect of them. This is extremely critical if you want to be successful as a leader! So, taking the time to better understand and think through your LPOV is really the first step in becoming a great leader.

Now that you know what a Leadership Point of View is, you’re probably wondering how you can get started. Ken Blanchard has a great resource on his website that you can find here. This will get you started with a couple of questions to get you thinking. If you’d like to learn more, I recommend you pick up the book, “Leading at a Higher Level”, which goes into more depth on this topic. You can pick up the book on amazon.com by clicking here. Also, feel free to contact me if you’d like to do some coaching around this topic!