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GROWING INTO A LEADER SERIES | PART 1

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 the through a sense of it, are not even when they are already adults. Be that as it may, the purpose of this essay is to show you the benchmarks for measuring and determining the stages and phases of growth in leadership.
For the purpose of this essay, there are four stages and five phases of growth transformation that anyone who desires to become a leader must go through by following a pioneer leader who is equipped to cause that to happen, which I will be explaining in the course of this series. However, I will only outline them in this particular essay and explain them in the subsequent series.
The stages are:
1. Following | Follower
2. Discipleship | Disciple
3. Collaborating | Collaborator
4. Leading | Leader
These stages are progressive and each individual who enters into the leadership cycle moves from stage 1 to 4 in learning and mastering the dynamics of the leadership.
The phases are:
1. Inspiration
2. Discovery
3. Equipment
4. Deployment
5. Achievement
These phases are also progressive and correspond to the stages and determine the level of development of spiritual, intellectual and physical infrastructure needed for effective and efficient leadership.
In the next essay, I shall begin to explain them one after the other.

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