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LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE | THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE LEADER

LEADERSHIP AND INFLUENCE | THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE LEADER

In the just previous essay, I began a discourse on the leader who has been transformed from being a collaborator by a superior leader in the cycle of leadership, and defined him/her to be one who has discovered his/her design and purpose, equipped in the direction of leadership by another leader, and is ready to take him/herself, as well as others, in direction of actualizing the intended result. But today, I will begin a discourse on the classification of the leader starting by establishing the predicators of the classification.

Who you become as a leader is largely influenced by your understanding of your leadership design and purpose, which according to this essay will be seen as the predicators for the classification of the leader. Put in other words, the fundamental questions that every leader must have asked and gotten the right answers, while going through transformation in the cycle of leadership, are: “What Am I?” and “Why Am I?” So, in principle, you cannot know “why” until you have a clear understanding of “what”, meaning that understanding your design precedes the purpose. Hence, in the subsequent paragraphs I shall concisely discuss leadership design and purpose.

Your leadership design is your form and function (i.e. abilities traversing your spirit, soul and body), which by engagement into a system structure serves a purpose and thereby produces the intended results while your leadership purpose explains the reason why you are a leader and stems from the very essence your form and function are given. In leadership, understanding your design is one thing and using your design to accomplish a specific purpose is another thing. In the same vein, understanding you purpose is one thing, and relating it to your design is yet another big deal. 

However, at the School of Leadership Development, we developed a mechanism that can help you discover and understand your design by a profiling process called Design Profile Assay. The Design Profile Assay is categorized into 6 parts, namely:

1. Your Personality
2. Your Role
3. Your Gifts
4. Your Talents
5. Your Skills
6. Your Special Abilities

If you will succeed as a leader, then you must keep abreast with your leadership design profile. It is just as simple as that.

Your leadership purpose is an aspect of your overall purpose that defines your relationship with others in helping them become something worthwhile within the sphere of your abilities. There two kinds of leadership purpose, according to this essay:

1. Authentic Leadership Purpose
2. Synthetic Leadership Purpose

Authentic Leadership Purpose
Leaders who know the reason why they exist have figured out the authentic purpose of their leadership based on their design from the infinite intelligence.

Synthetic Leadership Purpose
Leaders who have not discovered the very essence of their lives is left with the option of creating a purpose they serve from impending problems that bother them in the society.

The resultant effects of these two purposes are experienced and measured on a long term frame, never short term because of the motivation behind them and the source from which they are derived.

In the next essay, I shall continue on the classification of the leader.

Elvis C. Umez
Leadership Consultant
School of Leadership Development (SOLD)
IDB Consult

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