Having Life Training Cultivates Leaders for Tomorrow

Powerful leaders... breed leaders... They don’t just maintain followers. Powerful leaders not only mentally assent to knowing the way ...they actually go the right way.  And true leaders then pave the way to others. They duplicate themselves by educating their protégé to carry on their deeds of valor and glory. Resounding success can be achieved through leadership training by mentoring and life coaching while building skills.

John C. Maxwell once said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way." 

I am deeply imploring you to take this by heart.  'A “mediocre” teacher tells.  An “excellent” teacher explains.  The “superior” teacher demonstrates.  A “profound” teacher inspires.''

Your main goal is to find people whom you want to win over, networking which I have indicated previously is an essential factor in life. It does not matter how much you want it for them, you need to make them want it. Jesus said to not throw your pearls before swine. Mark Twain put it this way, ‘‘Never try to teach a pig to sing. It just wastes your time and annoys the pig.''

Remember the time when we were children and we played follow the leader.  The objective was to try your very best to do something the others couldn’t do. You would try to climb higher, leap farther, move quicker, be stronger anything to make your followers fail. That was the object of the game. We try differentiating ourselves from the mediocrity that others are so often plagued with thus self development and improvement is necessary.

The leaders are keen on the intent of performing in such a way that others could not replicate.  How can you build leaders by continually putting them in situations where they fail! A powerful leader does everything in his or her power to build other powerful leaders. I’m pretty sure that some modern day leaders have been to the “follow the leader 101” class one way or another. 

I call this as the difference between addition and multiplication. Let's pick a number... say 5. 5 plus 5 is 10... Plus 5 is 15... Plus 5 is 20... plus 5 is 25. That is 5 steps. 

Now, bear with me ... let’s do the same process again with multiplication. 5 times 5 is 25 ... times 5 is 125 ... times 5 is 625 ... times 5 is 3125 ... times 5 is 15,625! 

It’s quite impressive!  Just going 5 steps with addition ... we grew to 25.  With multiplication we grew to 15,625. What if that was customers.... 25 customers vs.15,625 customers?  Would that change your business? What if that was dollars. 25 dollars vs.15,625 dollars?  Would that change your bank balance? What if that was team members ... 25 team members vs. 15,625 team members?  Would that change your future?

The difference between addition and multiplication is that difference between you being the only leader versus you building other leaders and duplicating your power!  When you build others to be as strong as yourself you are replicating yourself and you will exponentially see and feel the benefit.

To build people you need to realize that it takes building blocks.  Let’s look at a few of these building blocks. Much like the building blocks of life itself, when people feel good about themselves it reverberates through their work actions and it’s quite apparent all throughout successful people.

Mary Kay Ash, founder of Mary Kay Cosmetics said this ... and remember she raised herself amidst obscurity to world wide prominence by building others ... Mary Kay said ... 'There are two things people want more than sex and money ... praise and recognition."

These are awesome building blocks.  According to the U.S. Department of Labor ... 46% of those who quit their jobs last year did so because they felt unappreciated. People want to be recognized!

History tells us that a lot of people have gone a lot farther than they thought they could  ... because someone else thought they could. That is powerful leadership.

Henry Ford once said ... "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.''  

Don’t hold until someone becomes discouraged before you decide to encourage them! This means you will have to be proactive not reactive and be a man of action. When I teach a sales training class ... one of the fundamental sessions is on answering objections. I ask people ... “What is the best way to answer an objection? The answer ... Before it comes up!  So, what’s the best way to fight off discouragement... before it comes up.  Be proactive!

The fundamental step in being a leader is to start thinking, acting and talking like one. Build people by illustrating action.  Lead by example!

Norman Schwarzkopf, a great military leader, once said ... "Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”

He knew how to build leaders... you had to act like one!

Donald H. McGannon said this ... "Leadership is action, not position."  Faith without works is dead Action! When you go into action as a leader it causes people to want to follow!

Start cultivating leaders for the brighter tomorrow by being a coach, a mentor instilling essential life skills to those around you.