Four pages Film analysis paper

Clarity and Leadership: an introduction

High functioning leaders are masters of clarity, Clarity is a catalyst for congruence of perceptions, thoughts, feelings and actions, and because high functioning leaders think and act clearly, they inspire and guide their teams to do the same. Team members respect and trust leaders who are clear and congruent in words and deeds. Collaborative communication builds respectful and trusting relationships –– the core of high-functioning leadership.

In a collaborative workplace, communication is encouraged, open and flows all ways –– top down, down to top and sideways. Employees that have clear ideas about their workplace purpose, roles and relationships are generally happier and more collaborative and productive than those who are ambiguous or ambivalent about their workplace status and relationships.

Some helpful definitions

Ambiguous: Having two or more possible meanings. Unclear, vague, indefinite, uncertain.

Ambivalence: Incongruence in one’s experience cycle. Strong but opposing thoughts, feelings, urges, sensations and behaviors. Uncertainty of behavior choice due to strong but opposing, thoughts, feelings, sensations, or urges.

Clarity: The state of being clear and easily seen or understood.

Communication: A giving and receiving of information.

Collaborative communication: The cooperative process of communicating in a mutual and congruent fashion. It’s characterized by a mutual exchange of speaking and listening, which fosters highly functional interpersonal relationships and team cohesion. A communication style modeled and encouraged by high functioning leaders.

Confirmation bias: A distortion of perception due to a person’s need to be accurate about the way he or she sees the world. A seeking of information that confirms one’s beliefs and the avoidance and minimization of contradictory evidence and opinions. A type of selective thinking in which one tends to notice and to look for what confirms one's beliefs, and to ignore, not look for, or undervalue the relevance of what contradicts one's beliefs.

Congruent: The state or quality of being in agreement or harmony.

Critical thinking: The art of identifying and evaluating information to guide effective decision making. Reasonable, reflective thinking that’s focused on deciding what to believe and what to do. It requires rigorous standards of excellence and the skillful application of them. A significant characteristic of a high functioning leader.

Empower: Inspire self or another to be self-directed toward positive, healthful and productive action.

Fact: Verifiable information about a past or present situation that is presented as objective reality. A provable concept.

Generalization: The outcome of taking one or a few facts and making a broader, more universal statement. Generalizations are similar to stereotypes in that they are sometimes wrong and harmful. Usually, it's best to stick with specifics and avoid generalizations.

Opinion: A view or judgment formed about something, not based on fact or knowledge, but rather on personal belief, observation, faith, experience or gleaned from a trusted source.

Perception: The state of being or process of becoming aware of something through the senses. A way of regarding, understanding, or interpreting something; a mental impression.

High functioning leaders are clear about their perception

Their ability to perceive clearly is an important pursuit of high functioning leaders, which is an important precursor to clarity. They continually expand and deepen the level of their perceptions. They avoid perception errors, such as Generalizations and Confirmation bias. They ask themselves, perception checking questions, such as:

What am I seeing?

What are others seeing?

What are the reasons we have different perceptions?

Why is my perception accurate?

Why is it important to me to have the accurate perception?

Why do I reject other perceptions?

Clarity of perceptions, thoughts, feelings and actions empower high functioning leaders to be clear about their

Roles and responsibilities

Vision and goals

Ethics, values and morals

Passion

Compassion

Verbal, nonverbal and written communication

High functioning leaders are clear about their thoughts

They’re adept at critical thinking.

They seek distinctions between facts and opinions.

Feelings

High functioning leaders are able to identify their feelings (emotions)

Mad, sad, glad and afraid

And use them as guides

Are not taken hostage by them

Actions

They demonstrate confident, decisive, and consistent actions, congruent with their thinking and feeling.

What do you see in the above picture?

What do you think your perception says about you?

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