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GROWING INTO A LEADER SERIES | PART 2

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 development begin to take place in the process of undergoing transformation under a pioneer leader. These assays are so sensitive that it can track your liminal points.
The focus of this essay is to help you understand clearly the obvious and observable indicators of these stages and phases so you can apply them into your personal leadership transformation. I will focus on the stages in this Part 2 and discuss those of the phases in the Part 3.
In my coming book, Leadership Tweaks: Pioneer Leaders’ Guide for Exponential Results, I explained how the pioneer leader can keep track of the growth and development of the people he is leading so that he can be sure of how much progress he is making in transforming them into ideal selves. However, the subsequent headings contain brief descriptions of the stages:
Following Stage
This stage is for the people who are beginners: those who just entered your leadership or are new to it. The characteristic drive of the people here is their wants and the desire to become something bigger and better.
Discipleship Stage
This stage is for individuals who have transited from the following stage. It is for those who have discovered their leadership purpose and are then ready for the personal discoveries that can help them actualize the discovered purpose. The characteristic drive of the people here is the need to discover who they are.
Collaborating Stage
This stage is for the set of people who are in the equipping phase of their lives following the discovery of their leadership purpose. The drive to utilize opportunities to try things out in order to confirm their fears and discoveries based on the things they have learnt over the period they have been in the leadership is characteristic of the people in this stage
Leading Stage
This stage of leadership growth and development is for the people who are equipped, only waiting to launch out fully. The characteristic drive here is to produce results at every given instance an assignment is given to them, and to be established so that they can graduate into autonomous pioneer leaders to begin another leadership cycle.

The next thing that you need to do is to carry out the assay to determine exactly your stage, and to do that send me personal chat. Meanwhile, I shall continue on the description of the phases in the next essay.

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