Leadership

I’ve started reading a book “Leadership Step by Step” by Joshua Spodek. It was a recommendation from my mother after hearing Joshua on a podcast. I listened to some of his ideas myself on another podcast and was very impressed. I guess it was his authenticity and way of expressing himself that caught me.

Back to the book - it’s a leadership course based on experiential learning. To do this through a book means there is an exercise each day. Yesterdays exercise (the first one) that carried over to today was to write an essay reflecting on what leadership means to me. The last paragraph of my essay is this:

I wish to apply my leadership skills in all areas of my life.  To be more persuasive, and socially inspirational. In my teaching and creating, in getting groups of people together to have them inspired with common goals.  To feel confident in organising people and getting deep commitment and to enable growth in all.  I also desire to create and find that it is an integral part of the creation process, being able to lead people in my ideas.

The exercise made me think a lot about leadership and what it is. It’s a very important a topic and one that I feel I can learn a lot about and develop my skills. The idea that I need to learn through practice makes a lot of sense here too. So I’m committing myself to go through the course/book and seeing where it takes me!