by Dale Shumaker
4spirit@gmail.com
According to John Maxwell, we all can lead where we are.
In the 360° Leader, Maxwell emphasizes that leading is a personal decision and has little to do with formal positions and titles. It is a personal quality we all learn, develop and become. The first step is to learn how to lead yourself. You can start at any age (younger or older); and you can maximize it to its fullest potential in any circumstances.
So a person can Lead Up, Lead Across, or Lead Down. Most books are written on how to lead those below us. What stuck my interest was how to lead across, or how to influence peers. Here’s Maxwell’s advice on leading across.
Principle #1: Leading is not a one time event but an ongoing process that takes time. Take time to learn, understand, prioritize and complete the “Leadership Loop” as Maxwell calls it. The leadership loop includes a progression from caring to learning to appreciating to contributing to verbalizing to succeeding.
This translates as taking an interest in people, respecting people, adding value to people, affirming people, influencing people, winning with people.
Principle #2: Put fellow leaders ahead of competing with them. Learn to complement them and contribute by putting your strengths along side someone’s weakness.
Principle #3: Be a friend. Listen, be open and honest.
Principle #4: Avoid office politics. Look at all sides of an issue and avoid taking sides. Help each other understand another point of view, rather than staunchly defending a point of view.
Principle #5: Expand your circle of acquaintances. Start with people you know and expand into their circle of friends; expand beyond your area of expertise; meet people different than you; break through prejudices; get to know others you may have not previously liked; break your routine; and do other things around new environments.
Principle #6: Let the best ideas win. Yield to, acknowledge and commend others who have good ideas.
Principle #7: Don’t pretend you are perfect. Admit your own faults; ask for advice; worry less about what others think; be open to learn from others; and put away pride and pretense.
Maxwell also has more on the web on the 360° Leader.
http://maximumimpact.com/
A 360° person completes, complements and compliments others.
Spirit in us Completes us as whole people as God made us to be one. In Spirit we are One with Him.
The Spirit Complements our abilities to enhance them to great levels above normal human potential. We are made in the image of God but remain incomplete without His Spirit residing in us.
When His Spirit resides in us, our abilities take on a Spiritual dimension. We see outstanding results in our life effortlessly.
Then the Spirit Compliments us. It gives us hope and encouragement. It inspires and motivates us. It provides a supernatural vision of results and a never ceasing flow of visual thoughts that see results as His Spirit is prompting us to see.
With Spirit in residence, we then are complete as One.
Spirit Completes us,
Spirit Complements us
and Sprit Compliments us with inspiration to attempt the impossible.
Whereas in the past, we would not even think of some things as remotely possible. With Spirit we get Supernatural encouragement.
Spirit is built-in.
It’s functionally interactive.
It’s constantly in our lives, thoughts, emotions
and creating a never-ending personal energy.
Within us a building begins that raises us up to even greater levels…
when Spirit is One in us;
when Spirit unites as One with others.
We, in Spirit, complete other people. We complement them with our strengths reinforcing their weaknesses. But when our strengths unite with the same strength in another, we catapult as a team to do incredible things. The human function, combined in strength literally flings the two into abilities beyond this world.
When we verbally compliment others, we implant an ability in them. They perform what we tell them they will. When we build up others, they become empowered through what we say. The human spirit wants to fulfill the positive things people tell us we are and can do.
The Scriptures say,
"You are citizens along with all of God's holy people. You are members of God's family. 20 We are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We who believe are carefully joined together, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you are also joined together as part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit." (Ephesians 2:19-22,NLT)
With the Spirit intertwined among each other, we are the Holy Temple. The very Spirit of God lives in among us and goes before us.
This intertwining in Spirit is what gives us Supernatural potential
as co-creators with God.
God is Spirit.
God is the Great, Earth and Substance creating Spirit.
Spirit creates the material and directs the flow of the psychological. It transforms ideas to realities and seals connections between people.
So the highest levels of influence are those where
Spirit is One in the person with God's Universally expansive Spirit;
and where the Spirit of One unites with the Spirit of another,
also One in Spirit with God's Universally expansive Spirit.
The 360° person is complete in Spirit,
complements and compliments others.
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