Day Four of the 12 Days of Christmas

Author: danielkilburn 2021-12-28 0 Comments

Day Four of the 12 Days of Christmas

Leaders Are Inspirational And Empowering, Enrolling Others In Their Vision

If you recall the five levels of leadership, the first level is positioning or your position.

Here is where you have a leadership level simply because of your title and where you might be in the world or your family.

The next level is permission. Here is where people will permit you to lead them, and this is where you start developing a solid relationship that will create the foundation for the next level, production.

At the production level, you must be doing something. You must create something.

Today I want to discuss how do we empower others? How do we inspire them? How do we enroll other people into our vision, so they will help us accomplish whatever it is were going after, and at the same time help them accomplish something themselves?

“Mastery of leadership is a skill through which you understand the mechanisms, tools, and strategies that are effective in enrollment and leadership. When you’re enrolling, you are inspiring and empowering people while leading them in the direction of your vision—and their own.” – Chris Hawker, co-founder, Next Level Trainings

 Mastery of leadership is a skill through which you accomplish something. So we do need a vision. We need to visualize what we want to achieve. Having an excellent idea is good, and it will never be completed unless we take the time and visualize what we want to accomplish.

The quote I read above identifies several things that need to be accomplished to achieve your vision. The most important one is that you must understand the tools, strategies, and mechanics at hand to achieve your vision. If you do not know them, seek the answers. A great leader knows how to find the solutions to their problems.

Leadership is not a one-and-done event. Instead, leadership requires a lifelong learning commitment. Reading books, watching videos, and listening to podcasts will impart information, but leadership requires you to do and accomplish something.

I’ve had to think about why I am doing this. There are multiple reasons. One is I believe in my vision. My vision is to protect our children from the emergencies and disasters that will come into their lives. The only way to do that is to get their parents enrolled in my vision so they can protect their children.

At some times, it’s essential to take a look back through history. Nobody ever created anything of value by themselves. Nobody who ever launched a movement that moved people worldwide does it alone. They had to enroll people to accomplish their vision.

Nobody does it alone. And I cannot do it alone.

I admit my vision is not for everybody, especially if you don’t have children.

But that doesn’t mean my vision would not work for you.

 More than 60% of the population of this country do live in at-risk locations for natural and man-made disasters. That’s just the way it is because the entire West coast, the Eastern seaboard and the Gulf of Mexico. Almost 60% of the entire population of this country live in those places and it is just a fact that these geographical locations are at the highest risk because of natural emergencies and disasters.

Do you have a vision? Is there anything you want to accomplish?

Beneath the surface of things lies a reality that you might not perceive.

When you uncover what lies underneath your vision you will find that it is probably something very important that you might not even know.

Take charge, you have permission, write it down identify and clarify that vision you have.

What do you want to accomplish? Sit down and put a plan of action together now.

I will tell you how to develop a plan of action for something. Before I do that, I must bring up a couple of things. If you go to Amazon and search for leadership development books, you will probably get thousands of them. Many are just rehashing the same thing over and over. Some of them might have something new or different.

Remember, leadership skills are integrated into the person, and the person usually takes the ones they like best. The leadership skills that I have learned to work in every environment are below.

1. Identify what it is that you want to accomplish.
2. Identify the skills or techniques needed to accomplish your task.
3. Put a plan of action in motion. That’s one of the biggest barriers most people face. You are not the Lone Ranger. Ask your team, your family members what they think. And let them run with it. This will develop a sense of unity, achievement, and confidence.
4. Review the processes with the people who are working on them. And determine if this is usable and if it will work for you. If it does, celebrate the accomplishment and move on to the next project.
5. If it is not going to work for you, reevaluate with the person whose primary project it is.
6. Celebrate the action already taken and try it again.

These six steps are instrumental in developing any project. Follow these six steps in order and you will be able to accomplish anything.

Whatever your task is the people who are helping you will build their skills you will develop unity, a sense of communication and resiliency that your children can take with them long after you are gone.

 We know that in great reward, there is great risk.

Step Up and be the Leader your children deserve.

Step Into your children’s lives, learn from them and teach them.

Step Out into the world with them to do beautiful things.

Till next time

“Be Safe”

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John C. Maxwell Ref: https://www.johnmaxwell.com/blog/the-5-levels-of-leadership1/

Michael Strasner Ref: http://michaelstrasner.com/all/michael-on-mastering-leadershipwith-steve-weatherford/