Leadership Law #1 - Challenge Accepted?

You're a leader. You have several eyes on you, waiting for your direction, motivation and wisdom. What they don't know is that you've flatlined. Your leadership skills are collecting dust and you need to get it squeaky clean. Fast. John C. Maxwell's The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership is a great place to start. In fact, my team plowed through the chapters, doing a Leadership Mastermind in August of last year.

The key is lifting the practice from the pages into our behaviors. While the book does an amazing job providing practical activities to nose-drive into new behaviors right away, you'll have to be open to change because these laws will take you off your pedestal and shine a warm spotlight on your underdeveloped leadership parts. It's intimate, but worth it. 

Let's get a started with the first law: The Law of the Lid

Let's back track a little.  Why I am even putting leadership under a microscope? Leadership is essential. Parents need it. Educators need it. I need it.  Let's see if you do too. Are there people depending on you? According to Benjamin Hook, "If you think you are leading and turn around to see no one following, then you're just taking a walk." However, if people bump right into you, it would be wise to be effective at what you do.

With that said, who better than to polish your leadership skills than John C. Maxwell, a renowned American coach, who has developed millions of leaders worldwide and has spent over 40 years disseminating leadership principles in over 50 publications. I'm listening to him.

#1 The Law of the Lid 

    This one is straightforward. If you want to increase your success, you'll have to lift that ceiling, and lift it by working smarter and not harder. For example, my success in the classroom has more to do with my ability to lead and inspire the twenty-five students in my care at any given moment and less to do with my placing additional energy on time management or super cute PowerPoint presentations. If leadership is not a natural part of your journey towards greater success, you are lying in a coffin and trying to stand. There is no room for anything more than what you've already accomplished.

Not to mention, there is only so much you can do with talent, especially since success is never personal. It involves others. You wouldn't believe the number of times that I've consciously or subconsciously blamed others for groups or projects that I was in charge of. Maxwell stated, "Everything rises and falls on Leadership." I came to the realization that operations good or bad is a reflection of me, the leader.

It is time to look at your limitations and lid and how you can improve or lift the lid. What is your vision, how are you going to get there, who are you taking with you and what are you hoping to accomplish along the way? Take it from Law #1, You have to develop you before you can stretch out that neck kink.
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So. Do you accept the challenge? ​Which part of this chapter spoke to you most?  COMMENT BELOW

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