Many of your receiving this blog, have been a part of the Reality Leadership Network. As a review, I have touched upon these leadership issues:
The importance of coaching for clarification, encouragement, and accountability
The importance of character and the relationship between character and particular competencies in addressing leadership realities. While character is the most important issue, and the most difficult to address in coaching others, character alone does not make a person a good leader.
Ongoing growth in character is the best preparation for addressing the realities of leadership.
Beginning today, I will be blogging some of my thoughts on leadership that are drawn from my personal journal. I look forward to reading some of your responses to my thoughts.
One of the leadership realities that I mentioned last month was that of emotionally-charged issues. We all have certain hot-button issues that both reveal what we value and also get our juices going. While it is not bad to have things that we are passionate about, we first need to insure that these are worthy of the value that we put on them and not merely personal preferences. Unfortunately many, if not most of these issues are related to our ego in some way. We need to be passionate about the right things. Sometimes other people, who are willing to be honest with us will help us to gain a proper perspective on such issues. Beyond the what question is the how question, because such issues tend to cause emotional reactions on our parts rather than objective responses. Effective people learn how to manage their responses, so that they exercise good judgment, or as one author has called it emotional intelligence in responding to those things that trigger our emotions. We are reminded in Proverbs that A fool always loses his tempter, but a wise man keeps himself under control.
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