Committed To Leadership
Committed To Leadership.
Stay the course.
For a couple of years, I kept listening to one of my seminar attendees complaining about all of his employee issues. He would constantly be telling me about how hard it was to find good people and about how disappointed he was with the people who he decided to hire. Most of them came and went after only a short period of time and so he was also frustrated by having to repeatedly training new people to do the same job.
While none of his issues were unusual (just ask anyone who has employees), what was unusual was that he signed up to take The Leadership Academy in order to solve these problems and then missed virtually every class. When one is committed to leadership, it’s not something that you can turn on and off like a light switch. It’s a never-ending journey through which you will continuously be challenged and provided with opportunities to solve new problems.
It’s very important to remember that if you are rolling out a new company directive in your business, you will have to be committed to it before your employees are. When you decide to enter into a new program, you can’t stop halfway through. If you give up on it, you will lose all your credibility and anything you try after that will be viewed as just the latest “flavor of the month” by your employees.
The key is to check out what you’re considering in advance. If you’re considering a leadership program, go and visit some place where it’s already in use at another facility so that you can ask the end-users what they think of the process. These are usually very expensive undertakings so you owe it to yourself to do your due diligence before investing a dump truck full of money into a program.
Think of your leadership program as a diet. There are all kinds of diets but the one that works the best is the one to which you are the most committed. The same is true with leadership programs. Don’t start one if you don’t intend to see it through.
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” – John C. Maxwell
(This excerpt is taken from my 5-part series entitled The Leadership Academy.) I encourage you to click here to register for The Leadership Academy program which will be held on five consecutive Tuesday mornings, on October 4, October 11, October 18, October 25, and November 1, 2022 from 9 AM to 12 noon Eastern Standard Time. This program will be presented partially in person at the Comfort Suites in Manheim, PA (for classes 1, 3, and 5) and on Zoom for the other classes.
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