REAL LEADERS (Part 1)

REAL LEADERS (Part 1)

Adesina Abegunde

Real Leaders Add Values and Not Titles

Hebrews 11:24 (AMP)
²⁴ [Aroused] by faith Moses, when he had grown to maturity and become great, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter.

With great joy I welcome you into this new week. The Lord will cause you to make remarkable advancement in Jesus name. We will be studying and learning from the life of Moses as one of the great leaders that ever lived in the next few weeks. The verse of the scripture above revealed that Moses was not title-driven but task-driven. He was more concerned with the value he could add to the Israelites than the title he could have earned as the next Pharaoh. He didn’t see leadership as taking titles but as giving values. So, from this I want to say, that real leaders like Moses add values and not titles.

Moving forward in life has to do a lot with leadership; submitting to the leadership of God and then taking the responsibilities that are expected of one. But quite unfortunately, our minds has been program to think of leadership only in term of holding a position and answering to titles, our society is title-driven and as such everybody seeks one. Funny enough, some people’s titles are even twice or thrice the length of their names.

Real leadership is adding value to people and the organization one leads. So, real leaders are conscious of what value to add to people and not necessarily the title they bear. While title is not bad, itinvokes a sense of being superior to other people and God has not called us to be superior leaders but servant leaders. We only really serve when we add value to people and not when we appear to be more valuable than the followers.

Let me ask you a question, 

WHAT DO PEOPLE REALLY RESPECT ABOUT YOU? THE TITLE OR YOUR NAME? 

If we suddenly remove your title, what value is left in your first name only or even your compound name? The weight that your name carries without the title is your real worth. Your name is you, and if your name is worthless without you title, then you are worthless. People like that get angry when their title or “full title” is not called. Though there may be a temptation to want to be title-driven, but real leaders make conscious effort to increase in value and add values to the people they lead.

Title gives a very limited authority for leadership, but the value that one adds to others give unlimited authority and permission to lead.Every name must carry a worth based on the value its bearer adds to others. What comes to people’s minds when your name is mentioned? That is the impact you have, the values you add and your permission for real leadership.

  How can you add value?

      1.     Have a paradigm shift from leadership is title to leadership is value.

      2.      Add values to yourself, increase your knowledge and build character.

      3.      Love people genuinely and be compassionate.

      4.      Never use leadership to meet your own needs of self-esteem or material things.

      5.      Always look out for what to contribute to the lives of your followers and the organization.

      6.      Have a transformation mentality and not maintenance or satisfaction mentality.

      7.      Never take a position you don’t have a vision and passion for.

      8.      Always look up to God for what He will have you do.

  To end this post, no leader ever touched people’s lives who was not first touched by their conditions. You will never add value to people you don’t value. So as you walk into your office today, see those staff differently. See those team members as being valuable. See your followers as lives to be served and not to be subjugated.

Can you remind yourself of those who have added values to your life? Those are real leaders! Dare to be one too.

God will bless you this week and you will be a blessing to others in Jesus name.

I pray that by this post, your mind will be renewed and your life will be more valuable in Jesus name.

Have a great week.