Improving Your Integrity: Influence Expert, Karen Keller, Ph.D, Recommends Three Foundational Steps to Being a Person of Integrity
Fort Wayne, IN, June 25, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Whether it’s personal or professional, every business woman knows the importance of working from integrity. Our communications, our relationships, and our business decisions, most every interaction revolves around integrity. And how we consistently stay in integrity has a direct effect on our business success. Influence expert, Karen Keller, Ph.D, advises three important steps for increasing and sustaining your integrity.
According to Keller, “Women in business are astute when it comes to watching out for integrity. They want to know that everyone they deal with, hire, or promote is working from a space of integrity. The word integrity conjures up images of politicians, business people and individuals in authority. It’s a blue ribbon that people feel a need to conquer.”
She adds, “Women need to answer important questions such as; How are you doing with your integrity? How are you approaching your work, your relationships, and your life. Do you let people walk all over you? Are you habitually saying yes when you mean no? How often do you hang up the phone feeling miserable because of how you let someone speak to you? The answers will help you find your core values, establish your beliefs, and measure your behavior.”
Here are Dr. Keller’s 3 steps for developing and maintaining true integrity:
- Possess a Fundamental Knowledge of Who You Are. You need to know what you believe in and possess an understanding of your capabilities. This happens when you are challenged and face overwhelming circumstances. It’s how you deal with these circumstances that defines your character and sets you apart from the rest. Be open to a new level of self awareness. Start identifying the character building situations that come along – then participate fully.
Write out a personal vision statement that gives you clarity about your beliefs. This will give you insight to where your belief system originated and what may need to change.
- Be Responsible for Your Personality. You are accountable for the effect you have on people. Find your number one strength. It may be an appreciation, a skill, a talent, a desire. Search until you find that one thing that gives you courage, reflection and peace.
Once you discover that strength, answer these questions; How are you using it? What benefits are you getting with that strength? How can you make it stronger?
- Re-Design a Life That Aligns With Who You Really Are. Welcome the growing pains of this process. Learn from each step forward and every step backward. Know that the difficult times, where you feel the most resistance, are the opportunities for the biggest learning and opportunities for growth. Commit to thinking, feeling and acting outside the box. Remove the obstacles that have become too familiar, stopping you from reaching your potential.
Keller concludes, “Identify where you are not being truthful in your life. Restore that truth. Your mission is not where you currently are, but where you want to be. The real question you need to answer is this: what have your life experiences taught you about yourself, your values, your belief system and what you are really made of? Then make note of how you’ve gone on to live in sync with this deeper knowledge.”
For more information, please visit http://karen-keller.com/media/three-steps-to-integrity.
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According to Keller, “Women in business are astute when it comes to watching out for integrity. They want to know that everyone they deal with, hire, or promote is working from a space of integrity. The word integrity conjures up images of politicians, business people and individuals in authority. It’s a blue ribbon that people feel a need to conquer.”
She adds, “Women need to answer important questions such as; How are you doing with your integrity? How are you approaching your work, your relationships, and your life. Do you let people walk all over you? Are you habitually saying yes when you mean no? How often do you hang up the phone feeling miserable because of how you let someone speak to you? The answers will help you find your core values, establish your beliefs, and measure your behavior.”
Here are Dr. Keller’s 3 steps for developing and maintaining true integrity:
- Possess a Fundamental Knowledge of Who You Are. You need to know what you believe in and possess an understanding of your capabilities. This happens when you are challenged and face overwhelming circumstances. It’s how you deal with these circumstances that defines your character and sets you apart from the rest. Be open to a new level of self awareness. Start identifying the character building situations that come along – then participate fully.
Write out a personal vision statement that gives you clarity about your beliefs. This will give you insight to where your belief system originated and what may need to change.
- Be Responsible for Your Personality. You are accountable for the effect you have on people. Find your number one strength. It may be an appreciation, a skill, a talent, a desire. Search until you find that one thing that gives you courage, reflection and peace.
Once you discover that strength, answer these questions; How are you using it? What benefits are you getting with that strength? How can you make it stronger?
- Re-Design a Life That Aligns With Who You Really Are. Welcome the growing pains of this process. Learn from each step forward and every step backward. Know that the difficult times, where you feel the most resistance, are the opportunities for the biggest learning and opportunities for growth. Commit to thinking, feeling and acting outside the box. Remove the obstacles that have become too familiar, stopping you from reaching your potential.
Keller concludes, “Identify where you are not being truthful in your life. Restore that truth. Your mission is not where you currently are, but where you want to be. The real question you need to answer is this: what have your life experiences taught you about yourself, your values, your belief system and what you are really made of? Then make note of how you’ve gone on to live in sync with this deeper knowledge.”
For more information, please visit http://karen-keller.com/media/three-steps-to-integrity.
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