Excelling In Leadership/Rashea@LLO2 Academy
Leadership is a team effort when required. However, being a leader is an individual choice and initiative. No one can step up and be a leader for you.
.Leadership is derived of leaders with different experiences, ranks, roles and abilities.
.Leadership requires endurance, fortitude and various skills.
.Leadership requires affirmation and encouragement. Take time to encourage yourself and affirm the greatness and efforts of others around you. Encouragement and affirmation are motivations for excellence.
Leadership is the uniting of a group of individual leaders with distinct ranks, roles, skills, gifts and experiences who come together to lead an organization, corporation, class or movement in a vision and mission through established goals, endeavors and processes.
Good leaders who excel in leadership are conscious of their emotions, but they are not controlled by their emotions. In other words, their emotions are utilized to help them to make the right decisions that produce the right results. God wants us to feel and to be consciously aware of and compassionate towards the needs of others, but He never wants us to be impulsive thinkers who behave contrary to what is right, removing ourselves out of the will of God.
Good leaders learn how to lead and how to expand their ability to lead. Good leaders don't get to one level of leadership and stop. Good leaders grow on one level of leadership and take the initiative to grow and develop on other levels of leadership.
Leadership, like Christianity, is progressive and consists of stages and processes. Both leadership and Christianity and how you embrace them impact you as a person in progress in every stage of leadership. They communicate who you are and who you are not as a person.
Here's some wisdom. Diversify, but never deviate. Grow and develop on multiple areas of leadership, but never deviate from the mission, the vision or the principles of leadership or from leadership itself.
Leadership is a combination and collaboration of leading and following. The objective is to know when to lead and when to follow. Everyone cannot lead and everyone can't follow at the same time. If someone is leading, then others should be following. Moreover, if others are following, the one designated to lead has to step up and speak up and lead accordingly.
How are you using your influence? Good leaders lead those who they influence and guide them in the right direction. Good leaders leave their imprint on how you think, believe and what you do without corrupting or manipulating you in the process.
Good leaders don't think for you. Good leaders mentor you and teach you how to think. Good leaders turn your thinking into the right results.
Robert Dilenschneider created the power triangle concept where he teaches effective communication leads to recognition which then leads to influence. He teaches that as you effectively communicate and recognize others that then leads to a level of influence. I agree with him. Effective communication is imperative, and people should be recognized for their hard work and contributions, but even that must be done with the right motivations.
I personally believe and teach the inverted dynamics of leadership. The impact of leadership on people and teams always starts with leaders in power and authority. The vision is grown on the shoulders of leadership and not the team abroad.
The Bible says, "The oil (anointing) flowed from Aaron's beard down to his robe downward (Psalms 133:1-3)." The government of transformation, reformation and revelation starts with headship (leadership). The 1% should bless the 99%. When good leaders are in leadership the people rejoice. When corrupt leaders are in leadership, the people are grieved (Proverbs 29:2). This Scripture is communicating, good things come from good leadership, and corruption and suffering comes from corrupt leadership.
Commit to communication.
Commit to collaboration.
Commit to being fully committed.
There has to be an agreement at some point, if things are going to progress forward and endeavors are going to be fulfilled. When you cannot agree on your own terms... as a leadership... agree on the basis of the Word of God. Seek out what the Bible says and do that. When you agree on the basis of the Word of God, no one is resentful towards the other leaders on the team, because EVERYONE is doing it God's way.👍🏾💯
Note: God's way brings peace and resolve. God's way brings responsibility and accountability to all.
If you want want lasting success... Take the stairs.
Anyone who ever became great long-term will tell you the journey was not always easy. The road was not always smooth. They had more failures then expected. Their success did not come without its battles.
People see the outcome, but they don't always know the processes and stages of those who walk in greatness. It's a commitment and a journey for the long haul. It takes being a leader and a team player when challenges occur, when its inconvenient and sometimes uncomfortable. It takes making as many changes necessary to protect your vision and hard work.
Remember this... You rise up vertically in prosperity and good success by climbing the stairs of hard work and resilience. Long-lasting sucess requires effort. Elevation requires effort. Good leadership requires ALL of who and what you are as a Christian, person and leader.
Rashea@LLO2
(When reading longer blogs... The key is not to try to remember everything said but rather key components that stick out to you that are beneficial.)
