Coming together is a beginning,
staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
- Henry Ford
In reading a blog post by Jeffry Harlow in Unpacking Ideas, I was motivated by this comment, “In short, the heart of transformational leadership is that everyone involved in our organization has confidence that our leadership team believes in, clings to, and tenaciously [...]
Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success. – Henry Ford
Leadership skills you employ in this area are important to the transformation of staff or volunteers into workers, critics into advocates, and detractors into supporters. Learn to define, recruit, delegate, support, nurture, and facilitate. The Transformational Leadership model enables leaders to get the right people, tell them what is needed, let people complete their tasks, and celebrate the results. After all, professional leaders lead. If we did everything, we would be called professional doers. Leaders lead. This means getting out of the way.
TIP: If you have lots of staff or volunteers, then learn to limit your time with those who are not as productive and give more to those who produce. Here’s a chance to use the 80/20 rule. Spend 80% of your volunteer support time with the 20% of the people who produce 80% of the results. Gather the remaining 80% of the volunteers who produce 20% of the results into groups. Support them as a group, not individually. This will give you a major bounce on your results and free up enormous amounts of time. (This is the “Pareto Principle” named after the nineteenth-century economist who developed the 80/20 rule for business.)
The meeting of two personalities
is like the contact of two chemical substances:
if there is any reaction,
both are transformed.
– Carl Jung
We cannot hold a torch to light another’s path without brightening our own.
– Ben Sweetland
When a choral conductor spends months on rehearsing music with a choir, they don’t want to have [...]
