Developing leadership skills in children outside of school

By admin · Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

First children should have books that have models of leadership and teach about leadership in their reading.

Then they must have practical examples of leadership outside of school, local leaders, national leaders, international leaders.

In addition, children should know that there are many different types of leaders-political, spiritual, literary, business, culinary etc.

What makes a great leader? What makes an ethical leader? How do we determine leaders in various areas of knowledge and talent?

To be a leader, you must be the best of the best in area, and you must be recognized as that.

There are many leaders who are unrecognized as that and therefore cannot assume a leadership role. Leaders must have followers.

There are excellent leaders who can not be leaders sense because they are not recognized as such, they have no credibility as leaders, and they have no followers.

Leaders should not try to force themselves upon people as leaders or be coercive, although this is a historical fact of leadership. Sometimes leaders have many incentives, but this is another problem of leadership. Leaders in certain areas, as entertainment, must “sell” themselves to the public, they must be charismatic and likable often.

Some leaders have many followers, some leaders have few followers, and some leaders have no followers, yet they are leaders.

You must understand leadership and then strive to be the best of the best in your area of talent or ability.

Sometimes leaders are misinterpreted by their followers, and their followers go in directions unintended by leaders. This is a problem of leadership, and this is something that leaders must be concerned about, including spiritual leaders.

This is a problem that we often discuss as it involves religion, where people make use of religion for many actions and motives, many perhaps unintended by their spiritual founders and leaders.

This is true of political doctrines, where the “faithful” go in unethical directions or ethical directions, but not necessarily intended by the leadership.

Leaders must continually monitor themselves and their “followers.” It is very difficult to have a leadership role. It is also difficult to be a “follower.”

Study the great leaders, study the problems of leadership, study the virtues and the mistakes of leaders and followers.

Often great leaders are discredited, and often their leadership is co-opted. These are also problems of leadership.

Some appear to be natural “leaders” and leadership is often typed in different societies, that is, there is a “leading role type” in most civilizations, and sometimes this has nothing to do with talent and/or ability, where some are allowed to be leaders and others are not.

Sometimes people are excluded from leadership roles for various reasons-ethnic, religion, gender, etc.

Those “natural” leaders must be concerned about their leadership and their “followers.”

Sometimes leaders can discredit themselves, sometimes followers, misinterpreting leaders can discredit them.

Leaders must be ethical and must have credibility.

There are material leaders, intellectual leaders, and metaphysical leaders.

Children should learn the problems and possibilities of leadership. They must learn how to identify the leaders among them. Who are the followers? Or does every child want to be a leader?

How do they identify the leaders among them and the leaders in their civilization?

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