Do you have to practice everything? All the Seven Faces? Go beyond your zone of comfort

Our face reflects our soul, our being. We are used to it! We see it in the mirror every day. We may like it or not (!), but we are certainly familiar with it! That leadership face that you or others see, probably is/represents your main zone of comfort. You may be a natural doer who tends to focus on where to go, and then goes there! If so, you may tend to dismiss questions of style, beliefs or even ‘ways of doing’. You will be tempted to practice leadership with that face and that is the only one that others will see. Nothing wrong with that, but remember that other people may react better to other faces; for example, the one of language, or values, or identity. I don’t know. You could be better off practicing leadership with other faces. You may discover your hidden ones in the process!

Don’t stay in your comfort zone.

Practice all faces if you can! Practicing leadership with seven faces is NOT about ‘perfect’ leadership. It is about being sensitive to a very complex reality, the one of your business organization, or your non-profit institution, or your church, or your political party.

In this incredibly complex reality, what leaders say, where they go and take people, what they build, what they care about, how they do it, ‘what’ they are and what they really do, matters equally. The leader with seven faces is a leader for a future that has already started.