LEADERSHIP

LEADERSHIP                  

Coach Glenn Proctor                                                                                                 April 8, 2020

“Face harsh facts of our current life, acknowledge challenges and fears, create new obligations and truth in darkness and light. Run with measured speed to the awakening with focus and hope. A wakeup call, though surprising, is afoot and bringing unexpected change.”  – Glenn Proctor

During a crisis, leadership describes itself: good, bad, timely, factual, creative, dynamic, dysfunctional, innovative, transparent, authentic, respected, chaotic, strategic, uncertain, humble, empathetic or some or all of these.

If we’re attuned, we know, see, hear and feel good leadership.

Whether it is private industry, government, small business, non-profit, a plant, home office, school or running the family unit at home, effective leadership is a necessity. It comes with an ultimate purpose: to manage a situation with focus and truth to get employee teams or families through a crisis with timely solutions, eliminating or lessening missteps, setbacks, physical casualties, mental stresses and providing a roadmap for recovery. Speaking hope is a priority; false hope is easily recognized. What must we do to remain safe?

At the top of the leadership arc is self-leadership: knowing our inner self, admitting what we know and don’t know, analyzing and speaking our feelings and making personal and professional decisions with focus, empathy and truth.

And, we must listen. What you may believe or fear is not what I fear or believe.

With leadership as one pillar of humanity’s structural apex (truth being another), I’ll add more l-words for us to think about: love, loss and levity.

1. Finding greater love for others and self as we move forward.
2. A crisis brings loss – physical, mental, financial, emotional or spiritual. Right now, we’re all losing something. Yet, I believe, we’re gaining much more if we wish to accept and understand today’s society and where we can be.
3. We must laugh and show positivity. The crisis engulfing our minds, eyes and ears will end. We will live again. Life, I believe, will be different, giving us opportunities – starting now – to reinvent, rebuild, restart or create new personal and professional priorities. We will find peace.

So, let’s all be good leaders in our space with focused self-leadership. What we think, what we do, how we feel, what we hear, read and speak, how we treat self and others and how we prepare – now and in the future – for life’s situations, seen and unseen, heard and unheard.

Military units scream: “Proper Preparation Prevents Piss Poor Performance.”