Have a Leadership Game Plan For Your Life
Do you have a leadership plan for your life?
Leadership, in simple terms, is influencing others. What influence do you have on others? Is there something that makes you passionate? Do you know what you want to accomplish, and do you know who you need to influence to achieve it?
Do you think about just yourself, or do you think of family, friends, colleagues, team members, your city, church, company, nation, or perhaps the global community? Do you ever wonder if you could change the world or influence significant change in this world if you were a strong leader with a concrete plan?
It would help if you had a leadership plan for your life.
- Evaluate your leadership strategy – Get a basic design and apply it in your life immediately. Find something to do, something to read, and learn something. Build new skills and try new things. Do it in a team environment and be the best follower. Allow the experts to influence you! Take their lead and apply massive action contributing to the process. Be all in, and this strategy will work for you. You will learn to lead by following. The best leaders are always the best followers. They lead by example.
- Develop, implement, evaluate and repeat – Develop a plan, implement the plan, evaluate how it is going, and do it again with the adjustments needed to do it better each time. The strategy should work for you no matter what you are striving to do. The goals will change, and you will move the target, but this process never changes.
- Don’t quit at the 5-yard line – You will have setbacks and flat-out bad days. You will want to stop at times, especially when things do not go your way. Decide to keep going and charge the goal line. Keep at it and work hard until you score. Don’t quit.
- Train others as you lead – Nothing makes you a better leader than helping others lead. Give your leadership away and let others run with the ball. Encourage others and help them succeed. It will come back to you 10x!
- Leadership happens with or without a position – Work on your leadership (influence) regardless of status. Help others improve and help others win. You will earn your leadership, and others will want to follow you regardless of your title. When you are leading by example, and following the leader, you will not take others off course with your influence. Get it? You are not stealing the leader’s authority; you are edifying it if you follow leadership.
- Have a steel resolve to accomplish the goal & be willing to change the approach often – Keep your eyes on the prize but negotiate the bends and turns in the road leading to the award. Leaders help keep others on the course, and together, they win.
Plans will always change, but you must have one in place. It will keep you on track during the peaks and valleys throughout your journey.
To Your Success
Have a leadership game plan for your life.
