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Friends, we trust you are keeping well & the week has started off on a great note. Last week Tuesday, we started an interesting topic titled "Servant Leadership."

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This discuss was based on the wealth of Mr. @IdyEnang's experiences & also from a book by Robert P. Neuschel titled: The Servant Leader: Unleashing the Power of Your People.

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We started the program by look at what Mr. @IdyEnang termed the Neuschel’s nuggets:
1. It is not the lot of the leader to be served but rather it is his/her privilege to serve: this is a fundamental truth that most people fail to internalize.

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They feel that when they get into places of leadership they need to be served.

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When you have someone that present themselves in the place of leadership, that person should not in any way have a mentality less than service.

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Service is what makes you the leader because you lead in a very amazing context. People are seeing & embracing something amazing about you thereby dedicating themselves & their lives to whatever you have asked them to do.

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They are following you simply because they have seen certain traits.

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Bringing the creed of HDN meaning “I serve into action daily” creates what is known as the servant-leader.

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This ideology by Plato also laid the foundation for servant-leadership and it says, “We govern for the benefit of the governed.” - Plato

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Can you say this of yourself? Can you say that of a man or woman you are looking to & aspire to be like? Are they leading for the benefit of the led?

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2. The head is smart but not always wise and perhaps the highest part in leadership is to balance the head which is the seat of analysis and logic & the heart which is the seat of feeling and compassion

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Balanced judgment is between the head & the heart. Why the head? Because that is where everything around analytics happens & that is the home where the environment of logic plays.

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But the heart is the headquarter of feeling and compassion and that is why when people talk about emotional intelligence, those are two (2) major words that determine how...

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...you really bring yourself to a point of interacting with people and being able to successfully adapt and make sure you connect at all stages.

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If you allow your emotions to run, they are going to run riot sitting on feelings & compassion and you cannot take decisions from the heart.

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If you allow your emotions to run riot without making them intelligent, then there will be trouble.

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When people do things based on emotions, the end is always disastrous to a large extent but being disastrous means there are loads of regrets even if the person is not there but it goes ahead to impact other people.

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So, what Robert Neuschel means when he says, "The head is smart but not always wise," is the need for balance and that balance is between the head & the heart.

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Understanding & practicing the appropriate balance is at the core of effective leadership.

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So, when you look at yourself right now and ask yourself, “am I leading from the heart? Am I leading from the head or I’m leading with a blend of both for me to have good judgment?"

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So, the balance depends on judgment and wisdom. This is one reason why leadership may be more an art than a science

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3. Effective leadership requires a high tolerance for ambiguity & learning in order to live and be productive in an increasingly uncertain environment.

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The managerial plain field will be messy, often disorderly & continually changing. What is required is a great deal of calm and the calm is about sorting out & striving to operate on an even keel in an ever-changing and churning sea.

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Your inability to cope with uncertainty, constant change, disappointments and even defeat as well as success is a stumbling block to effective leadership.

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There is uncertainty lurking every second of the day and that is why we need to work on the hearts and minds of Nigerians.

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That is why we need a different mindset, that is why we need to educate our people about the importance of effective leadership and the need for high tolerance.

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Tolerance comes with the ability to cope with uncertainty. Your ability to cope with disappointments & in the midst of it all, you must understand...

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...that an important test of accomplished leadership is how well you, the leader copes with these circumstances & uncertainties

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All of these needs to come with a measure of change and a coping mechanism that allows you to go through trials & successes.

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Do you know how many children or families go through frustrations or frustrating times because their parents are under pressure? Effective leadership requires you to understand this particular aspect.

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4. This has to do with the definition of who a mature leader is. Who is a mature leader and what does he/she have?

The mature leader has:
A. a high flashpoint
B. A soft but strong and firm voice but ready if ever needs to shout

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C. A mature leader has a deep reserve of energy
D. A mature leader has mental and emotional maturity. He/she has a high level of emotional intelligence, meaning that he/she subjects their emotions to some measure of intelligence.

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E. A mature leader has inner peace and calmness that fosters stability in the face of tumult.
F. A matured leader has a well-managed ego
G. A mature leader has freedom from arrogance and moodiness.

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H. The mature leader has a keen sense of what really counts and this simply means having an instinct for the essential things of life. One of such essentials is RESPECT.

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I. When you find somebody respecting you and respecting the ecosystem

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5. The leader needs more than integrity to be successful, without integrity & trust nothing else matters much.Really & truly a leader needs more than integrity to be successful.Integrity is who you are when nobody is watching

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6. A high-performing, trusted and respected leader will have an unswerving sense of moral decency. This moral decency comes with a good knack & balance of cultural issues & traits.

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What followers do is to see these traits and they either imbibe them & begin to live them or they take them on & totally immerse themselves in it & later on become disciples of this supposed leader.

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When you have moral decency on one part, there is also what is called immoral indecency, this means doing things that are contrary to what you expect a leader to do.

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Can I be a respectable leader and what is the bare minimum that is required of me from a moral decency standpoint? Can I offer it? Can this trait be perceived & be lived by my followers. Can they of necessity say, “this is a man or woman that I want to follow?”
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7. The effective leader must have the capacity for dealing with abstraction, vision and the ability to conceptualize.

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If you want to call yourself a leader, you must be able to project, you must be able to create that vision, that place you want people to get to and it is not an easy turf.

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Leaders envision while managers are more or less administrative to make those elements of the vision come to life.

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This requires the ability to translate that conceptual information or vision into concrete specifics that are well understood or meaningful to the people that you are leading either in the organization, within your community or country

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Very many times those that are given to leadership roles claim to be leaders but in effect most of them could be rightly said to be managers but therein lies the challenge - are you a manager or a leader?

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8. The successful leader energizes people as he/she leads them. The drive and energy of the leader must get reflected in the thoughts & actions of the people throughout the organization

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The leader must be someone who is able to energize people in the company, in the business or even within the organization

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An effective leader is ever inspirationally-dissatisfied & instills that feeling in the troops. Once that is being cascaded, you find the troops wanting to do more...

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...to strive to that place that has been painted - they need to conquer that city; they need to conquer that terrain or they need to bring that trophy back.

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It is a healthy kind of dissatisfaction that encourages reaching for higher levels of performance.

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When you are totally satisfied with the current status quo, then you are swimming in the ocean of mediocrity and that’s why you must keep on as a leader to have that inspirationally dissatisfaction so that your troops will see that we are striving for more...

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...we are striving for more, for better, for best not just sitting with what we are used to. Otherwise, higher levels of performance will continue to elude us.

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10. A leader needs a vast amount of physical, spiritual and psychic energy. Frustrations, disappointments, and high mountains will drain away energy from you.

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The spiritual energy is the one that galvanizes the entire being. The pressure to compete, to make changes, to face the new demands will be very physically and emotionally tiring.

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It will be energy draining and there is a continuous need to replenish that fountain of energy you carry as a leader.

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So if you are not in a space where your physical and spiritual state are in abundance of energy then the chances are you will continually be frustrated, disappointed, and if care is not taken you will de-motivate your team & performance will be far from that team.

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11. Strong leaders do not nibble around the edges. When you find a strong leader, you will not find him in corners just trying to pacify the troops - they don’t sweat small stuff.

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A strong leader tackles the important issues. Nigeria needs strong leaders who will not sweat small stuff.

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12. Success in interpersonal relations does not depend on mental brilliance or the high intelligence quotient. It depends rather on practical intelligence i.e. emotional intelligence.

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It depends on sensitivity, it depends on common sense and a bigger dimension of emotional maturity which is considered as a factor for successful relationships with others.

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So, if you ever want to be successful as a leader you must understand that interpersonal relations are very key. However, it’s not just having those relationships but you need to have practical intelligence.

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Emotional intelligence is about having intelligent emotions i.e. using intelligence to manage your emotions.

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If you use your emotions alone, they will not be intelligent because they may end up being very disruptive and destructive in the long term because you have only applied one part of it and that part is that which has to do with feeling and compassion.

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Whereas, that could have been balanced with the head, deep seated analysis and deep seated logic.

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If an exercise of emotional maturity is played out with intelligence, you will find successful relationships with others absolutely in line.

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13. Courage is huge and it is among the most desired leadership qualities. A courageous leader will at every point in time recruit the right kind of followers because they know that whoever is leading has this singular leadership trait and quality called courage.

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No amount of technique can produce courage, courage comes from the heart and the soul, and it can hardly be intellectualized.

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Courage is innate and it will then manifest in a dimension that makes everyone say, “ that man or woman has a major ingredient that makes me follow him or her.”

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