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Are You
A Leader in The Chrysalis?
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by:
Jo Ball
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Let’s
get this straight at the outset…
Leadership skills can be found in their droves on an Internet search.
Lists… dozen of them; and if you want to define yourself and tick the
box by a pre-set, ready made standard based on what ‘experts’ in
business and the church think, then go right ahead and look because I
am not going to reproduce it here and encourage you to pigeon-hole
yourself.
Face facts: the guy in the pin-stripe suit and the one with the dog
collar are not the only leaders. What’s more their ways, their
definitions and their lists are not the only way to lead.
In your lifetime you’ve been exposed to all kinds of ‘leaders in their
day’. Take your teachers; yes, the ones who made you tuck your shirt
in, do your tie up, remove your make up, ear rings and often your smile…
Take your parents – doing their best as the leaders of your home and
your childhood – using what they had and what they knew to bring you up
with good morals and good values so you would become an acceptable
member of society who could get a good job and find a good spouse and
go on to be a good reflection of them. Maybe they were kind and
nurturing, maybe they were overbearing torturers and heavy-handed
disciplinarians….
Then take your peers: the leaders, the tall kids in the playground who
developed first and got all the attraction from the opposite sex. The
first couple to make out, the first guy to have a car, the first one to
leave and get a job and reach the heady-height of leader for five
minutes…
And I guess what sends us on those searches to pigeonhole ourselves is
the hope that we are as good or better than that standard. Maybe it
will help us if we can be recognised as someone or something by a
business leader’s standard or a spiritual leader’s values.
And this is okay, but remember that the standard of the wealthy and the
clean have often been brought into question. Perhaps the standard of
the person who walks their dog, chatting to the mums and the kids on
their way to the school bus, or the parent who can ignore the tantrum
of their child or the lady who helps you settle into a new community by
throwing a party for you, are the type of leaders we might want to
consider being.
Real leadership is not about striving to meet an external standard so
that tick can be put in boxes under your name. Real leadership is about
living with purpose – finding, defining and using your birth given
gifts and bringing them to the foreground in a distinctive way that
changes, enhances and glorifies the greater good.
Now that’s real leadership!
Good luck on your journey
Jo Ball x
Coach & Founder, Unstoppable Life
About the Author: At
Unstoppable Life, Jo Ball (LCA, Dip, NLP) is developing the next
generation of leaders who have been in the chrysalis. These people are
discovering and defining their life purpose. Join Jo’s Fr>ee
newsletter now at Unstoppable Life’s home page to discover a mass of
information other leaders in chrysalis are acting upon. www.unstoppablelife.com
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