
What is workplace courage?
Workplace courage is a form of social courage (as opposed to physical courage) where individuals who display such courage risk social exclusion or ridicule (as opposed to physical hurt or even death) for a ‘greater’ good.
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Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
The key to change... is to let go of fear.
Rosanne Cash
Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. (Christopher Robin to Pooh)
AA Milne
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill
Courage is the most important of all the virtues...
Maya Angelou
One man with courage is a majority.
Thomas Jefferson
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new.
Alan Cohen
Have the courage to say no.
W. Clement Stone
Workplace courage is a form of social courage (as opposed to physical courage) where individuals who display such courage risk social exclusion or ridicule (as opposed to physical hurt or even death) for a ‘greater’ good.
There is no one set of traits of effective courageous leaders. However, research has shown that the following characteristics are common in most such leaders.
Courageousness starts with self leadership. Self leadership is an ongoing personal journey with successes and failures, learning and adapting to new situations.
If you want to be a courageous leader, you first need to look inside yourself and learn to be courageous in your own behaviour.