Bolan Consulting

LEADERSHIP IS HEAVY!

If you are a leader you carry the weight of all associate’s dreams, their goals, their aspirations. The burden of not providing them with opportunities to succeed. The disappointment of seeing them with barriers you failed to remove. The anguish of seeing any associate get hurt. The burden of managing many different personalities. The plight of navigating different emotions.

Like every smart lifter you must have great power position, keep a wide support base; this may be in the form of peers, friends, often times this support base is family. Keep good posture; ensure you are looking in the right direction and both body and mind are aligned with fulfilling the task. Body language in important when conveying strength in leadership. Lift slowly, always taking great pains to be clear minded and steady.

Responsibility is a burden you must be prepared and willing to carry, there is grave mental and physical repercussions when handled incorrectly. Trust is fragile, if it drops it may be broken; the responsibility of both your employee’s success and your own is only outmatched by the heavy reality of having failed to lead. Leadership is a hard load to bear, if you can’t carry it give it to someone who is willing. Leaders never seek the easy way out, they seek the right way out. Leaders don’t walk away from problems, they walk towards issues and work towards finding the solutions. Leadership isn’t easy, if you want lightwork walk away, you’re in the wrong position.

There’s an old saying that says “when things go wrong leaders look in a mirror, and when things go right leaders look out a window” -Anonymous. This is one of my most favorite quotes, leaders are conditioned to carry this weight with humility, and rightly so, but do not be afraid to look out that window after successfully defeating adversity and saw “I LEAD MY TEAM THROUGH THAT”

by Andrew Bolan

Consistency

Leaders don’t be a prisoner of consistency for consistency can be the enemy of growth.

“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…….Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.” – Ralph Emerson

If you must be consistent;
Consistently be fair and impartial to all your associates
Consistently learn and evolve
Consistently improve
Consistently change

Do not fail your team in the name of consistency, if there is new information do not be afraid to change your position. Do not be the leader who is afraid to adopt an idea because it wasn’t yours, consistently stiff-necked for fear of seeming inadequate. Leaders who maintain the status quo out of fear of seeming inconsistent will ruin your organization, a prisoner of consistency leads the same way in all situations in order to avoid making real time decisions. It’s easier that way, for real time decisions require thought and analysis, new opinions require being self-critical, moving in a new direction requires justifying why you changed trajectory; contradicting your own instructions requires admitting that maybe you were wrong or that circumstances changed.

Instead, apply objective reasoning to each situation consistently. Make all decisions stand on their own merit, act in spite of consistency when a situation warrants it and as a result of consistency where logic demands it. NEVER BE CONSISTENT BECAUSE OF CONSISTENCY.

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