Coaching practices for Leader Personal Purpose Statement

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• If someone asked me right now why I do this
• I sort of know what drives me but it’s this big foggy feeling I can never pin down
• I know there are a couple of things I’m genuinely good at, but I use them just to get by
• I keep hitting my targets and checking the boxes, and it keeps leaving me weirdly hollow
• My team does the work but they’re just going through the motions, and I can feel they don’t see why any of it matters

Practices that may help

1. Articulate your personal "Why" as a leader
   A leader who cannot state their own purpose clearly cannot communicate it to anyone else.
   Start With Why: Leading Through Purpose
2. Write your Why statement
   Capture your purpose in one line: "To ___ so that ___."
   Find Your Why, Made Practical
3. Bridge from signature strengths to purpose
   Identify the top two or three things you do better than most people and trace how they can serve something larger.
   The Life Crafting Intervention: Scripting Your Future Self
4. Build meaning through contribution rather than achievement (meaning pillar)
   Orient your work toward what it does for others, not just what it earns you.
   Seligman’s PERMA Model, Made Practical
5. Articulate a compelling vision of why the work matters
   Connect the team’s daily work to a meaningful purpose they can believe in.
   Transformational Leadership, Made Practical
6. Connect the work to a purpose beyond yourself
   Tie effort to something larger — the "why" that outlasts the reward.
   Drive: Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose
7. Channel ambition to the institution, not yourself
   Care more about the organization’s success than your personal legacy.
   Level 5 Leadership: Humility and Will in Great Leaders
8. Write a values declaration as the core of your legacy letter
   Name the two to four values you most want to have lived by — then write why they matter to you.
   The Legacy Letter: Writing What You Want to Leave Behind
9. Define your HOWs
   Translate the abstract why into a few concrete principles for how you operate.
   Find Your Why, Made Practical
10. Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
    Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
    Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor

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