One of the most unavoidable requirements of being a leader is to identify and recognize leadership potential in other people. This process would be simple if the men and women that are destined to become leaders were prepackaged and labeled Leadership Ability Guaranteed. There is no such thing as a born leader. We all arrive on this earth with the same amount of potential. It is what happens to us during life and how we handle it that determines our level of leadership abilities.
Every person carries within them, the ability to lead. The seed of greatness has been carefully planted deep down inside us. So what is it that causes that seed to germinate? What makes it grow? More important, what makes it multiply and reproduce? What is it we, as established leaders, need, in order for us to find and stimulate someone else to pick up the baton of leadership and run?
In order to identify leadership potential in people, we must possess a huge amount of commitment, diligence, patience, desire, and focus. We must be able to look at the individual, identify their gifts, their attitudes, their dreams, their goals, and their past success as well as their past failures. Only by understanding these, can we get deep enough inside the person to locate that leadership seed and expose its potential.
Once we find this seed, it becomes our responsibility to fertilize it with care, understanding, and encouragement. We are required to nurture it and provide it with an opportunity to grow, blossom and reproduce. Much like a garden needs protection from severe weather, insects, and weeds; the potential leader needs protection from discouragement, rejection, and mediocrity. Nothing stunts leadership potential faster than association with mediocrity.
Helping someone become a leader is more than just providing them with information and helping develop their skills. We must instill in people a sense of value; their value as a potential leader. We must encourage them in times of challenge and respond to them in times of need.
No matter what, we must recognize that people will buy into, and believe in us, before they buy into their own ability to lead. We must be the example in not only what we teach, but what we actually do. Mentoring is just as much modeling as it is teaching. We must make sure we model what we teach.
Bill Bergfeld is a professional Network Marketer and owner of multiple businesses. His passion is leadership; his current online project involves aging and methods of reversing its affects. He can be reached using bill@billbergfeld.com
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