What is Leadership, Really? pt.2
Will You Selflessly Invest?
Investing and Uncovering
The idea of leadership has been defined as the ability to influence others - specifically in a particular and necessary direction. Often, this challenge of influencing others, teams, business, etc. could easily be seen as - coercing people toward a particular outcome. It is often distilled down to possessing the ability to take people to a desired destination - whether a professional or a personal one.
There are outcomes and endpoints involved, but we believe there is a deeper purpose to leadership. If you ask most leaders, they will say helping people grow and develop is at the heart of leadership, but oftentimes it is just a means to an end. Developing people is usually missing from most organizational structures. What if the essence of leadership is not about taking people someplace, them following you or your influence on them, but rather investing yourself in a way that creates space for others - to uncover and realize their full potential rooted in who they were meant to be?
Stay Rooted ~
Deeper Roots
Have you ever felt coerced by a leader?
What made you feel that way? Do you have any insight as to why they were doing that to you?
Can you think back on a time when you felt like you were simply a part of a cog to get a business, non-profit, charity, ministry or philanthropic organization to some defined destination?
Do you recall at some point as a leader yourself when you recognized you viewed people as cogs in a wheel to get to some destination you were trying to get to?
Looking within – where does developing and growing others around you rank on your priorities?
