Elvis C. Umez

GROWING INTO A LEADER SERIES | PART 3 By Elvis C. Umez | Leadership Consultant, IDB Consult The common attraction that many people have in following a particular pioneer leader who is believed to have the capacity to cause the needed transformation in their life is contingent upon the need to discover and fulfil purpose within a record. So, all the activities that go on in the process are geared towards ensuring that the individuals are properly equipped and deployed in their specific spheres of influence. And this entire process that begins the transformation can be sequenced into five phases characterized by certain observable indicators so that growth and development in that direction could be tracked. In the Part 2 of this series, I briefly described the four stages and how an individual could keep track of the transformation process by paying attention to certain changes that surround the needs of the leadership within time and space. However, in this Part 3, I shall focu...

GROWING INTO A LEADER SERIES | PART 2 By Elvis C. Umez | Leadership Consultant, IDB Consult One of the challenges many people are facing in life is associated with tracking their personal leadership growth and development to know that they are ready to begin leading themselves and then others from point A to B within a record time. Unlike the age and educational system that help us keep track of our physical and intellectual growth and development, tracking your leadership could be a little bit difficult without the help of a personal leadership strategist. However, the good thing is: I have developed some diagnostic processes that can help you track your personal leadership growth and development to the exact point of your stage and phase. As a trained Nigeria Medical Laboratory Scientist, I developed personal leadership diagnostic assays to help individuals who are desirous of getting better results in their leadership to be able to keep track of themselves as growth and devel...

GROWING INTO A LEADER SERIES | PART 1 By Elvis C. Umez | Leadership Consultant, IDB Consult. Growing into a leader takes time and human resources to come by, which does not happen overnight, no matter how you pray about it. Besides, it does not happen by you desiring it. But, it is a deliberate effort calibrated by growth and development in the direction of mastering life’s basic principles. It could be likened to growing into an adult, which comes with certain visible basic social sustainable attributes. While these attributes may be universal to all climes, the same could be said about growing into a leader, which is evident and associated with profound basic character development and discipline to making things work in face of challenges. Still, that you are an adult does not mean that you are a leader, automatically, rather it means that you are expected to be one. And many times, this expectation has led to some form of allusions that some people are leaders, who, in t...