Everyone is capable of personal leadership 

• respect for the inherent value and dignity of all human beings and empathic understanding of them is central to a successful relationship between leader and led. The ‘I’m OK - You’re OK’ position

• people of all ages and stages of development are capable of learning to take responsibility for their decisions and actions

• all are born equal

• all are creative 

• our need for relationship constitutes a primary motivating experience, and contact and secure attachment is the means by which the need is met 

• we all have a self-actualising tendency

How to be a prosocial leader©:

• be informed about and engaged with the world, alert and alive to its problems

• make it a better place through empathy, compassion and action

• have the self-awareness, belief and creativity, authentically to engage and galvanise yourself and others to make it better

• live a life that is truly aligned with authentic values

• understand, accept and prise who you are and who you can fully be and the contribution you can make

• are filled with drive, love and acceptance of others

• work for the greater good

• put people before profit

• lead ethically and compassionately

• are reflective and energetically intelligent: cognitively, emotionally, physically, spiritually and creatively

• can be fully present in any moment: equally those of joy, celebration, success, as those of sadness, loss or failure

• be sustainable, using your own and the world’s resources wisely and with compassionate, tender loving care

This model was developed originally by the Mindful Leadership Foundation and refined over many years for our sister organisation www.usefulandkindunlimited.com