{"id":4780,"date":"2021-03-19T09:28:23","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/?p=4780"},"modified":"2021-03-19T09:28:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T23:28:23","slug":"are-you-a-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/?p=4780","title":{"rendered":"Are You A Leader?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4783 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Are-You-Leadership-Material-e1616047970582.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The Leadership Author Warren Bennis once said that, when he thought about what constituted effective leadership (in general terms), he felt that it was often easier to \u201cknow when it is seen\u201d rather than to define it in specific written terms. And of course, the same could still be said because there are many different types of leadership and <em>many models of potential success<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em><em>The only really effective way to discover whether<\/em> you are a person who has the \u201cright stuff\u201d is to seek direct feedback from others, in a rigorous way, so as to discover which skills or traits may need more work or development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Despite the need for third party feedback and an individualised plan to develop \u201cthe right stuff\u201d to be an effective leader, experience tells us that there are some common characteristics in good leaders. In the rest of this blog we will describe four areas that tend to emerge most often in the well rounded leadership-bound individual.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">These are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Self management<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Managing others<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Managing change (including being creative\/innovative)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Functional skills<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Let\u2019s look at each of these in a little more detail remembering that a potential leader doesn\u2019t have all of these in the early stages of their development:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Self-management<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Self-management is about having or developing a range of skills including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Assertiveness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Emotional Intelligence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Personal\/Time Effectiveness<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Stress\/Pressure Control.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">As we grow in mastering skills and gaining knowledge in these areas, we develop a solid foundation upon which to start to lead others and later take on more difficult tasks such as change management.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Managing Others<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">This is the most difficult and rewarding aspect of being a leader but one that most individuals struggle with because there is so much to learn about topics such as:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Coaching\/Mentoring<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Generational Leadership<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Leadership\/Management Skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Motivation and Empowerment<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Teams and Teamwork.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">A prime additional skill here for any leader is to communicate well with others. However, to do this effectively an individual has to work on a range of skills including:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Feedback Giving\/Taking<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Influencing others<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Listening<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Managing Change<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Every organisation\/Church faces both small and large-scale change on a regular basis and to tackle it well needs a reasonable understanding of a range of relevant subject areas. These include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Change Management Skills<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Conflict Resolution<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Creativity\/Innovation<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Risk Management and Sustainability.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Although not all of these topics are about change handling directly, they are often about what occurs when change happens and approaches to help tackle it when it does.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Functional skills<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Once we have mastered how best to manage ourselves, others and day to day change there are a range of leadership activities that need to be appreciated at a functional level. This may vary from one organisation\/Church to the next but will usually include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Planning<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Cost Control<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Goals\/Objective Setting<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Problem-Solving\/Decision-Making.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Every leader needs to know at least the basics of theses skills in order to be successful. By building knowledge and skills in all of these areas, individuals will be able to both ask better questions and guide others more effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">In conclusion then we can say that a continual development of skills in all four of the above areas help to determine whether or not an individual is \u201cLeadership material\u201d or has the right stuff. It may not be enough to know for sure until he or she is actually in the role but it does help to mitigate the risk substantially.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Leadership Author Warren Bennis once said that, when he thought about what constituted effective leadership (in general terms), he felt that it was often easier to \u201cknow when it is seen\u201d rather than to define it in specific written terms. And of course, the same could still be said because there are many different&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4780"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4780\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}