Wednesday, January 20, 2010

How To Lead as Myself

It's weird for me to think that I've been in positions of leadership fairly consistently over the last 10 years or so, yet am still trying to figure out who I am as a leader.

I've found myself in certain cycles of leadership, hopefully learning from each of them, and have just started scratching the service of what my unique leadership style might be.

I'm generally a person who is well aware of what I enjoy doing, am comfortable doing, am gifted at doing, hate doing, struggle with doing, and so on, but leadership is something I haven't been able to figure out yet.

I've noticed what I respect, wish I was, hope to be, sometimes even think I am, but never with the certainty to figure out what type of leader I actually am.

I wouldn't know what to expect as an answer if those I currently "lead" were asked to describe what kind of leader I am.

I hope, as time continues, and my life likely leaves me in "leadership" in lots of ways, that I can come to be comfortable in, and understand, what leadership looks like in my skin.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

It's your and Jenny's SPECIAL day - enjoy! Happy Anniversary! (And Jenny can be the leader at home, even though you, too, are a leader.)

 

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