Developing The Leader in You

Developing The Leader In You

What is Leadership?”… Remove for a moment the moral issues behind it, and there is only one true definition;  Leadership is the ability to obtain followers.

Martin Luther King, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, John F Kennedy and Sir Winston Churchill were all leaders.  While their value systems and management abilities were very different, each had their followers.  Once you define leadership as the ability to get followers, you work backwards from that point of reference to figure out how to lead.

Most people define leadership as the ability to achieve a position, not to get followers.  Therefore, they go after a position, rank or title, and upon their arrival they think they have become a leader.  Those who possess the “status” of a leader often experience the frustration of few followers, and those who lack the proper titles may not see themselves as leaders & therefore, don’t develop their leadership skills.

Everyone Influences Everyone…No one is excluded from being a leader or a follower.  Realising your potential as a leader is your responsibility.  In any given situation with any given group there is a prominent influencer.  This influencer may change with a different group of people or a different situation to become one of those influenced by another influencer.