The
Leadership Training Institute offers seminars that teach participants
to confidently use proven methods of management leadership
to lead people and help them plan, organize
and control their work assignments. Seminar
participants will also learn to use resources made available to them more
effectively.
At
the 90-day post-seminar assessment, participants will
have:
One cannot be considered a leader if he does not possess a vision for what he wishes to accomplish during his term or tenure in office. In my more than three decades of training and working with organization leaders, I have never understood why anyone would want to hold a leadership position if he did not have this vision.
Every vibrant organization has a specific mission or missions. The most successful ones realize that these missions and their corresponding Mission Statements must continuously evolve if the organization is going to continue being relevant to its constituents, members, donors and potential donors. Otherwise, it will stagnate and diminish. Effective leadership requires having a point of view about how to best help the organization evolve and maintain maximum relevancy, while not diminishing its vital role. The strongest organizations generally have ongoing committees and discussions about how best to maintain and assure this. Therefore, a leader should have a series of goals that he wishes to accomplish during his period in office, and that is that individual's vision.
When someone who has either been elected, selected, or ascended to a leadership position either cannot or will not definitely state his vision, that person should not be in that position. Leaders must be one of the major driving forces, motivating others to action. Those who state that their view of leadership is that they are merely representatives of their members or constituents, and do not want to "impose" their point of view on others, are not being leaders at all. This type of behavior at best indicates a lack of understanding of the necessities and requirements of leadership, and at worst, is an admission (whether the individual realizes or admits it or not) of not wanting to lead.
There is nothing wrong with someone wanting to follow the mandates of his constituents. Those desires should help to formulate a vision, or a best method or best practice of achieving those leadership goals. A leader should ask himself what does he want to achieve during his tenure? How is he going to bring about that direction?
Those who pretend to lead, but lack vision, do so for many reasons. A small minority actually believe that they should simply be the conduit for their constituents. These individuals may be well meaning, but obviously do not understand what leadership means. More often, however, individuals who either lack leadership vision or are unwilling to publicly state their leadership vision (which is, by the way, far more prevalent) do so because of either a lack of vision, lack of preparedness, lack of understanding, weakness in decision making, or most often, lack the courage of their convictions.
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