LEADERSHIP
LEADERSHIP
This post is for everyone remember "Nobody is Born a Leader" they developed themselves to be what the are. So change that attitude of yours
On my way to being a man, I have picked some lessons. When a leader listens, the people talk, but when he doesn't, the people watch. They watch him stroll into peril or at the peak of sentiments, slavery or loyal ignorance, they join in the turmoil. True leadership has never been a function of superiority, it's not always a portrait of a superhero, rather it's a responsibility that demands effective communication and networking to achieve a common (not personal) goal. If the goal is common, then it's communal. If it's communal then you must not go about it privately like it's personal; involve the people. Teach them what to say, but don't tell them what to say.
Leading with superiority mentality is like parenting with a primitive ideology that the child is too little to have a say; such parents weep later (a crying papa was a commanding dad). I'm a leader and still being led, so by knowledge and experience, leadership and stewardship, I have come to understand that leadership is not about being in front of the parade, but being in charge of the queue. It demands building a team out of the crowd, grooming a society into a family and carving a community out of calamity. None of these can work without the people, team or congregation talking back to or at you or unveiling their responses or reactions.
One of my principles of leadership is termed relationship, and this comes on the platter of a two-way traffic communication. Leadership doesn't end with your hand holding the led, their eyes watching your steps or your voice resounding in their minds; it also involves your readily available ear syphoning their thoughts, else some will die with their lips closed.
What part of leadership that does not require relationship? What side of relationship abhors communication? Or what side of leadership doesn't require communication? I'm yet to know because leadership (not 'rulership') is relationship and relationship is ineffective without communication. Lack of effective communication is the bane of leadership; makes the leader seem a dictator and can erupt rebellion among the led.
As you lead today, relate well and as you relate today, communicate well.
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