THE SCHOOL OF LEADERSHIP pt. 1

WHAT IS LEADERSHIP? Leadership is about influence not titles. Leadership is problem solving capacity. It is been able to influence and persuade your team members or followers to where they don’t want to go even though it is the place for them to be. Leadership is a process, a series of steps and actions to achieve an end. Leadership is not about the individual it has everything to do with the people been led or the followers. In leadership, the leader must realize that people are brought into his life at a season and that season can and will surely pass away. The followers will not be around always nor will the leader. ‘Great leaders don’t just appear. They are crafted over time. They practice been great.” – Mcneal Reggie Purpose is the reason for which a thing exists or is done, made or used. Great leaders have a clear purpose. In Acts 13:22 we see the purpose of David as a king over the Israelites “And when he(referring to God) had removed him(referring to Saul), he(God) raised up unto them David to be their king; to whom also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfill all my will.” God Himself gave a testimonial of David as a man after His own heart and because of that recommended him as Saul’s successor and it was so. David’s job as a leader was to fulfil all God’s will. That was his purpose. Without purpose leadership will be jeopardized at any level. Purpose however, can be eroded by four things and as a leader one must be able to deal with them. 1. Discouragement 2. Distraction and diversion 3. Unhealthy competition or comparison 4. False expectation THE PROCESS OF LEADERSHIP Note that a poor process will lead to a poor outcome. In the same vein a great process will result in a great outcome. Here lies the difference between a bad, a good and a great leader. The process is the training ground for a potential leader. It is where leadership is practiced. In Luke chapter 4 verses 1 to 14 we see Jesus entering into the wilderness full of the Spirit but then in the verse 14, He returns in the power of the Spirit. Something happened in between the fullness and the power and that was the process. We are told of how he was tempted of the Devil on three occasions to which Jesus overcame all. There are 5 things every leader faces when he is going through his process. 1. Rejection 2. Unbelief 3. The Flesh 4. Self-glory 5. Pressure of delay To be an effective leader, one must endure and overcome these five phases in his period of been processed into the place of leadership. You can never avoid these five and neither can you pray them away. Surely, as long as the earth and the heaven remain yon shall encounter them. To try to avoid them is to try to not pay the price of leadership.