Trade leadership potential for true leadership. - I know I rave about our Student Leadership Team - they rock and blow me away daily - but a hard lesson I've had to learn is to ignore leadership potential and go after manifested leadership. We can all see potential for the most part and love the challenge of building a student into a leader (like someone did for us), but there's a lot of time wasted on students that have potential but don't care. A true leader that's ready will be leading already. All you'll have to do is point them in a direction. The problem with students that have potential but no desire is that they're usually the popular ones that you think will be good leaders. They don't lead though, as true leaders create more leaders. These students simply create followers.
You can find true leadership in the students that others want to be like already. As harsh as it is, the best thing to do with students that exhibit potential is not to give them attention, as it will back fire into an attention party - pulling people away from the vision.
This is not to say that we don't make acceptions. When we do though, we are clear and strong up front with the standards. If they get off track, they're done. The true leaders that are ready for leadership are focused and remain on track... for the most part. They're still students.
You can find true leadership in the students that others want to be like already. As harsh as it is, the best thing to do with students that exhibit potential is not to give them attention, as it will back fire into an attention party - pulling people away from the vision.
This is not to say that we don't make acceptions. When we do though, we are clear and strong up front with the standards. If they get off track, they're done. The true leaders that are ready for leadership are focused and remain on track... for the most part. They're still students.
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