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THE DYNAMICS OF INFLUENCING YOUR DISCIPLES

THE DYNAMICS OF INFLUENCING YOUR DISCIPLES

In the previous essay, I discussed the dynamics associated with influencing your disciples according to the designs, and promised to begin a discourse on the collaborators, but while I continued to consider that discourse, I realized that there were a few things that I left out that are very important for the leader to be armed with in influencing his or her disciples that I will devote my time in explaining in today’s essay. If you have been following these essays accordingly, you will realize a common trend with leadership and influence that is common to both the followers and the disciples, which is their personality dimension and temperament that explains the reason why they act the way they do uniquely.

The focus in this essay will be to explain the points of influence of the disciples that the leader should be properly aware of if he or she will eventual succeed in transiting them to the next level according to the leadership purpose. The relationship between the leader and the disciples is that of a mentor/protégé kind that requires him or her to take the responsibility of being a teacher. The secret that underlies influence is in your ability to teach them properly with a good understanding of their points of influence in laying out principles using acceptable words so that they can easily learn according to their unique dispositions to life and things.

Because this requires teaching learning process, it is important for the leader to note that all that is required to influence the disciples at this level is in showing evidence of the mastery of the principles that produce the required result in the direction achieving the leadership purpose. It is upon this that disciples can be influenced. For instance, you cannot teach your disciples how to kill a lion without having to kill countless lions before them, because they are convinced when they see the evidence of what you teach them per time. Essentially, however, their responses to your evidence cuts across their personality dimensions which must be taken cognizance of adequately.

Remember that I had previous explained that there are four personality dimensions associated with the disciples, which I explained in the just previous essay, and are Rational, Idealist, Guardian and Artisan disciples. The Rational disciples are influenced by presenting them with spiritual evidence, because they are drawn more to their inward impressions followed by an outward exposure. They will not be appealed by your teachings unless they make spiritual sense to them. The idealist disciples are influenced by intellectual evidence followed by the spiritual and then the physical. They will not be appealed by your teachings unless they make intellectual sense to them. The guardian disciples, like the idealists, are also drawn to intellectual evidence but only to the degree that it makes physical sense to them. Also they will not be appealed by your teaching unless they make intellectual sense to them. Many disciples are often like this, which leads to some making arguments if what you are teaching is against what they have come to learn over time before entering into the leadership cycle. Lastly, the artisan disciples are influenced by physical evidence followed by the intellectual and then physical. They will not be appealed by your teachings unless they make physical sense to them.

The leader will succeed in influencing the disciples by simply understanding this unique differential points of influence associated with the people he or she is leading. If you will succeed as a leader you must first of all carryout the assay that helps you understand the unique personality dimensions and temperaments of your disciples for the purpose of effective communication and influence. The School of Leadership Development through IDB Consult can help you carryout this assay for your leaders, followers, disciples and collaborators individually or as a group. If you need this service, call or send a WhatsApp chat via +2348163115394 for more details.

In the next essay, the collaborators will be deliberated upon. Be on the lookout for more essays. Meanwhile, a free pre-sensitization class will be holding this weekend in close WhatsApp Group towards a 2 Week Personal Leadership Course.

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

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