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As humans, we are never not in language – we speak, listen, think and act in language. As a leader, your language is never innocent; there’s intention in everything you say.

Integrity, rightly so, is held to be a virtue of great leaders. But what does the word mean? It originated from the Latin word, integra which means ‘whole or complete’.

John Maxwell, a renowned leadership expert, once said, “a leader is one who is most like themselves.”  Having reflected, ask yourself, ‘so, who am I as a leader?’

I’ve come to recognise that leadership in teams is more organic and less ordained. There are three sources to the organic leadership in teams; it is either claimed, granted or owned.

We’re addicted to addition – we’re conditioned to think and talk about doing more, learning more, getting more and achieving more.

On my morning run, I overheard a person venting about her working arrangements and how unfair and unjust she felt her situation was compared to her colleague.