What is Courage?

What is Courage?

I can share with you a bit what courage is not, especially coming from my leadership background:

Courage is not belittling a group of people in front of their peers.

Courage is not having all of the answers to everything.

Courage is not always hitting every goal and saying that you were the reason you hit your goals.

Courage is not calling your teammates stupid or idiotic in a stressful situation.

Actually, the word courage, the root is “cor”, which is Latin, and it’s Latin for heart, so it’s a heart word.

When you think about courage, at least from what I saw early in my career, it’s not what I know it to be now, which is significantly different.

When you think about courage in the workplace, what are you seeing? What are you experiencing? Ideally it would be leaders and individuals showing themselves with all of their heart, not belittling, not knowing it all, not trying to control, and not trying to prove. That’s definitely not courage, but something completely different.

And what’s interesting about courage, if you want to learn more about it, is that it’s a skillset, (actually four skill sets) and not only are they observable skills, but they’re also teachable and measurable!

And here’s something that’ll blow your mind, which honestly blew my mind: there is a measurement for courage, and the greatest measurement is vulnerability. The willingness to be relationally vulnerable is the greatest and most accurate measurement of courage.

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