Leadership
What's in it for me
~By: Mike Angell
What's in it for me
~By: Mike Angell
Fellow Toastmasters:
What is leadership? Leadership is setting the course. Leadership is putting others ahead of yourself. Leaders do not come to be served, but to serve.
Let he who would be the greatest among you serve the rest.
Leadership is not easy. It requires time. It requires talent. It requires your brain. Most of all it requires love. You have to love the work. You have to love what you do. You have to care about the people that you are doing it for.
Empowerment? Strategy? Proactive? All those things are tertiary. They flow as a natural consequence of strong leadership.
Do you have what it takes? Are you interested in being a leader? Invariably the question arises - "What's in it for me?"
1. Personal development - You joined Toastmasters, at least in part, to develop your own speaking skills. Consider weightlifting. Do you get strong lifting itty, bitty weights, or do you get strong lifting heavy weights? Is there pain? You betcha. In the end, you will find that you have grown and exceeded your own expectations.
2. Friendships - Few things in life bring people together more than struggling for a common goal. Think on your own life. Are your closest friends born when things were good and comfortable for you? Or was that friendship born in adversity?
3. Career Developement - Yes, that's right folks, at the end of the day each and every last one of us is in business for ourselves. Some of us are entrepreneurs. Some of us are wage earners. Some of us are managers. Regardless, everyone brings home a paycheck for their families. Do you know what separates you from the field? Do you know what makes the difference in an interview? in the eyes of a potential employer? a potential customer or client - COMMUNICATION SKILLS!!!!
Fellow Toastmasters I tell you in all sincerity empires have arisen and fallen based on their leaders communication skills. No one here is trying to found an empire (except maybe John, just kidding) None the less, you WILL notice a difference in your career.
Do you want to be a leader? Do you have what it takes? I encourage you to ask not only "What's in it for me?" but rather to ask "What's in it for the people near and dear to you?"
What's in it for them? The answer, fellow Toastmasters is......
A BETTER YOU!
See me if you're ready to step up. Elections are in June.
Peace
~Mike
What is leadership? Leadership is setting the course. Leadership is putting others ahead of yourself. Leaders do not come to be served, but to serve.
Let he who would be the greatest among you serve the rest.
Leadership is not easy. It requires time. It requires talent. It requires your brain. Most of all it requires love. You have to love the work. You have to love what you do. You have to care about the people that you are doing it for.
Empowerment? Strategy? Proactive? All those things are tertiary. They flow as a natural consequence of strong leadership.
Do you have what it takes? Are you interested in being a leader? Invariably the question arises - "What's in it for me?"
1. Personal development - You joined Toastmasters, at least in part, to develop your own speaking skills. Consider weightlifting. Do you get strong lifting itty, bitty weights, or do you get strong lifting heavy weights? Is there pain? You betcha. In the end, you will find that you have grown and exceeded your own expectations.
2. Friendships - Few things in life bring people together more than struggling for a common goal. Think on your own life. Are your closest friends born when things were good and comfortable for you? Or was that friendship born in adversity?
3. Career Developement - Yes, that's right folks, at the end of the day each and every last one of us is in business for ourselves. Some of us are entrepreneurs. Some of us are wage earners. Some of us are managers. Regardless, everyone brings home a paycheck for their families. Do you know what separates you from the field? Do you know what makes the difference in an interview? in the eyes of a potential employer? a potential customer or client - COMMUNICATION SKILLS!!!!
Fellow Toastmasters I tell you in all sincerity empires have arisen and fallen based on their leaders communication skills. No one here is trying to found an empire (except maybe John, just kidding) None the less, you WILL notice a difference in your career.
Do you want to be a leader? Do you have what it takes? I encourage you to ask not only "What's in it for me?" but rather to ask "What's in it for the people near and dear to you?"
What's in it for them? The answer, fellow Toastmasters is......
A BETTER YOU!
See me if you're ready to step up. Elections are in June.
Peace
~Mike
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