Contents:

• Process
• Management
• Values
• Leadership
• Followers
• Change
• Self Discovery
• Situational
• Charisma
• The 4 "E's"
  • Envision
  • Enable
  • Empower
  • Energize

Process                                                                                                                                         

First, let's start with a working definition of what Leadership is. Leadership is the energetic process of getting other people fully and willingly committed to a course of action, to meet commonly agreed objectives. So, leadership is not just about style, or charisma, or forcefulness, although those things can help. Leadership is about understanding people, and especially about the process of getting people all pointing and acting in the same direction. It is about listening, and making a real "connect" with your potential followers. It depends on having a unique vision, making strategic choices, and designing and enabling an organization to get the job done. We call this leadership process "the 4 E's". By understanding the approaches or processes that all successful leaders use, we can enhance our own leadership skills. This is true regardless of the size or complexity of our organizations. Put another way, these leadership thoughts apply equally to large corporations, and to local town societies.

Leadership is different to management, in that Leaders always make changes. Managers run organizations, and managers tend to institutionalize the "status quo". Both managers and Leaders are needed, to perpetuate their particular enterprise. However, throughout history, Leaders of all types and who had many, varied objectives went beyond these "status quo" boundaries. They found ways to create groups of followers, so they could together change things 

Values                                                                                                                                          

We must first understand and communicate our own value systems, and must focus on balancing the interests and concerns of others, helped by understanding their value systems. This is a pre-requisite to enable others to understand, buy-in and then follow any Leader's program. We need a sense of balance to deal with multiple constituencies' interest groups, whilst also achieving our goals.

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