Choosing Leadership: A Customizable and Interactive Journal on Leadership
The choice to offer one’s leadership means choosing to step up where others step aside. It means more work, not less. It means larger responsibilities, larger questions, larger uncertainties. One cannot fake wanting to be a leader. You cannot be halfway committed, you cannot choose to offer your leadership and "sort of" show up. Choosing leadership means making a committed choice--you want the challenge and the learning.
Too often, we find ourselves occupying leadership positions because we were pursuing something else, from a larger salary to greater self-esteem to meeting other's expectations, where leadership becomes merely a means to another end. Just as common, because we may not be in a "leadership position," we don't see the possibilities for effectively offering our leadership. We put the responsibility for leadership onto "them," which diminishes ourselves as it deprives the organization of our perspectives and energy.
Choosing Leadership asks you to consider if you’ve genuinely made the choice to lead and, if so, what that choice means. Originally developed as a journal of reflection for a year-long leadership program for senior leaders, the journal will be added to once a month. To read excerpts, click on the links below. Each excerpt is no more than a few paragraphs.
If you have your own learning/experience about choosing leadership that you would like to share, we welcome your perspective, your stories, your wisdom. The form to fill out is below the excerpts from the journal (if you'd like to keep your contribution anonymous, let us know):
