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Invest in yourself as a leader (even if you don’t think you are!)
I know that many would see the word ‘leader’ and automatically assume I am talking to someone else. Maybe you made that assumption too. Too often people believe that you need to have some specific title or be a particular type of person to lead. I used to think that way too. Even I was given a title and still didn’t ‘feel’ like a leader. This becomes a barrier to development. You will only invest in yourself as a leader when you accept the role you have to play in your arena of life. “Leadership is influence” as said so well by John C. Maxwell. You have areas of influence…
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Bite-sized Inspiritment Day 26: Moment
How do you take the passion, ideas and focus generated in a moment and carry it through into everyday life? How do you capture that energy generated in an insulated environment out into the real world? The past two days were spent at the Global Leadership Summit. I have been humming with ideas, insight and fervour as I have been every year. The download of exceptional teaching and training on leadership is overwhelming and transformative. And yet, I know from previous experience that carrying that through to the daily action is hard. It takes intention. It takes commitment to continuing to learn and grow. It takes courage to implement what…
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Chameleon adaptability- Five Minute Friday
Adaptability can be a two-edged sword in my experience. The ability to be flexible and change my tactics in response to situations is something that I value and am working on in my parenting and leadership. It is a skill that I am striving to teach my daughter in order to increase her resilience. and yet, at many times in my life, I have found my ability to adapt to go too far. I have become a chameleon seeking to blend in with whoever was around me at the time. Even my accent has been known to shift according to who I am speaking with! It can be easy to adapt…
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How can I lead myself?
In the series I wrote last year, I talked about this concept of leading ourselves that I had been coming across in my reading and exploring of leadership skills. It is an idea that has continued to stick with me that is both challenging and encouraging. In leadership, we seek effective influence over those under our leadership. (Whether you hold a titled position, a voluntary position, are a parent or simply have people in your life who look up to you-you are a leader.) What becomes increasingly evident is that the person I most need to influence and the only one that I truly have control over is me! It…
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Journey- Five Minute Friday
This post is written as part of Five Minute Friday, where writers take a prompt word and write for five minutes without editing. After an intense writing stint in October. This is just what I need to get back into writing for November. When I saw the prompt word for today, I smiled. “Journey” My week started with a post about the continuing journey I am on in my leadership and writing and it will end with a fast paced reflection of that journey. I have spent the past two days at the Global Leadership Summit here in Perth. I am filled to overflowing with inspiration, ideas and plans. I…
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Navigating through the fear
The plan for writing today was an update on our Advent celebrations and some personal reflections on this time. I guess my heart has other ideas as this has been brewing within me all day, and has been bubbling under the surface all week. I wrote in this post about the new leadership opportunity that I was praying through and had accepted. I have taken on the role of North Metro Regional Coordinator for MOPS Western Australia. I was stunned at being asked, excited about the next step I felt God calling me into and nervous about the demands of the role. This week it all became official. It became…
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What I’ve Learned from MOPS Leadership
For the first year of my daughter’s life, MOPS was a huge part of keeping the small shreds of sanity that were left. It was a very challenging year and the encouragement, commiseration and space to breathe were exactly what I needed. I was sad when one of my work days ended up being a Friday and I had to stop going to MOPS for a couple of years. In that time, I stayed in touch with participating in craft nights, helping to do AV for the State Conference and chatting to the mums at church who went. I missed it! I had already started considering changing my work days…
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Letting go of a role
A little over a year ago, I was dipping my toe into leadership again by co-leading a Hello Mornings group. It was a pleasure to be leading with a friend of mine and I loved being able to contribute to a group that had been so key in deepening my relationship with God. I loved the perfect level of commitment it offered for that season of life. I could exercise my skills in accountability and planning, while touching base with people without adding much more to my days. I didn’t have to go out anywhere (apart from a few catch up/play dates at my friend’s house which is never a…
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Capacity for Leadership
Leadership was the area of insufficient capacity in my life that most grabbed my attention at the end of last year. This was where my latest season of seeking increased capacity began. I had accepted a position on my local MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) leadership team. I hadn’t been an attendee for two years due to working on the day it is held but deeply missed it as it was a place that saved my sanity in the tough first year of my daughter’s life. When I received the phone call inviting me to this position, my spirit leaped at the opportunity. I didn’t have any doubts that this was…
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Capacity for Leadership
Leadership was the area of insufficient capacity in my life that most grabbed my attention at the end of last year. This was where my latest season of seeking increased capacity began. I had accepted a position on my local MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) leadership team. I hadn’t been an attendee for two years due to working on the day it is held but deeply missed it as it was a place that saved my sanity in the tough first year of my daughter’s life. When I received the phone call inviting me to this position, my spirit leaped at the opportunity. I didn’t have any doubts that this was…
Encouragement for women in leadership
