If you Google the word “leadership,” you’ll get more than 4 trillion responses, with many of those focusing on the meaning of “leadership” or the definition of “leadership.”
With so many pundits weighing in, I thought I’d add my two cents. For me, leadership is all about three things:
- Vision. If you are a leader, you have a vision or a dream of where you want to take your organization and/or your flock. Ideally, that vision is inspirational in your followers getting excited about the idea of going where you want to lead them.
- Communication. You can’t lead without good communication skills. Period. You must have the ability to not only explain your vision, but to compel people to share in that dream.
- Action. Great leaders tend to lead by example. Taking the action you want to see in others offers a blueprint for how to achieve your vision. Sometimes that looks like plain old hard work, and sometimes it looks like a leap of faith. But you can’t achieve anything sitting on the sidelines.
That’s it – pretty simple but not always easy to do.
What attributes do you think constitute leadership? Drop me a note at rick@excellencek12.com.
