Leadership is not about titles, pride or being the star of the show. It does not have anything to do with your title or the size of your office. Leadership is a way of life, grown from within out. It’s a philosophy and attitude toward taking responsibility and making a better world. Each of us has the ability to grow into an exceptional leader.
Leadership and management, although related, are very different. Management is instructional and task orientated, whereas leadership is all about guidance, motivation and inspiration to transform the ordinary to the exceptional. Exceptional leaders don’t instruct but choose to guide, motivate and inspire using conversation, suggestion, and questioning (e.g. the Eureka! principle, which is the the process of guided self-discovery).
Exceptional leaders love conversing. Conversation can only occur when there is no hidden agendas and when all the interaction is non-judgmental. Conversation aimed at reaching Eureka! implies an open, attention rich, honest, specific, and time-independent interaction, which provides information. This allows parties to discover actions and consequences and allows choices and mistakes to be made. Conversation is not communication (by the way, the world we live in loves communicating because its mostly too busy to converse). Conversation is intimate and bi-directional whereas communication is unidirectional and formal. Conversation comes in many forms, but an exceptional leader knows that a typical conversation has three parts or sections to it. They are:
Be extraordinary!
Myles Rennie
Leadership and management, although related, are very different. Management is instructional and task orientated, whereas leadership is all about guidance, motivation and inspiration to transform the ordinary to the exceptional. Exceptional leaders don’t instruct but choose to guide, motivate and inspire using conversation, suggestion, and questioning (e.g. the Eureka! principle, which is the the process of guided self-discovery).
Exceptional leaders love conversing. Conversation can only occur when there is no hidden agendas and when all the interaction is non-judgmental. Conversation aimed at reaching Eureka! implies an open, attention rich, honest, specific, and time-independent interaction, which provides information. This allows parties to discover actions and consequences and allows choices and mistakes to be made. Conversation is not communication (by the way, the world we live in loves communicating because its mostly too busy to converse). Conversation is intimate and bi-directional whereas communication is unidirectional and formal. Conversation comes in many forms, but an exceptional leader knows that a typical conversation has three parts or sections to it. They are:
- Conversation for relationship is about establishing rapport
- Conversation for understanding is about establishing a shared understanding of all perspectives
- Conversation for change is about establishing a guiding path forward and to inspire and motivate toward the change
Be extraordinary!
Myles Rennie
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