CAPACITY FOR GOVERNANCE

Leadership is capacity for governance; the capacity to govern yourself, your family, and the assignment put in your hands. Leader ship is a function of wisdom; it is taking the lead, setting the pace in your own field, it is not occupying a space. The value placed on you is a function of the things that has happened around; when your impact is felt in the group that is when they value you.

Character and Capacity are two important pillars in leadership. In the journey of leadership, Character is 75% requirement while Capacity is 25% requirement. If you don’t have character your capacity is valueless. Leadership is not an endowment, it is an accomplishment therefore leaders must be developed by developing their character and capacity.

Your first step as a potential leader is:

1. Define your field
2. Recognise the passion in you
3. Recognise the divine gifting in you
4. What empowers vision is relevant knowledge. Leaders are Readers

The administrative aspect of leadership is the management aspect. Administration is the integration of goals and objectives into functional and productive units. A leader who is a good administrator must:

1. Marshal out your goals for the group
2. Identify your area or medium
3. Create the departments that will handle your structure
4. Develop the structures through people

We must understand that good leadership produces good administration. Leaders don’t stand alone, leaders don’t walk alone. When you stand or walk alone as a leader it is said that you are on a stroll. The composition of your team in leadership is critical to your success as a leader. You are only as great as the people that surround you. If you are surrounded by weak people as a leader you become weak.

Your team as a leader is your future, they are the ones that will package your message (vision) and sell it to the world. Your team must be:

1. People who believes your person
2. People who believes your message
3. People who must be trustworthy
4. People who must be tested and must have been given the opportunity to leave and they still stay

To conclude; the person that is too big to serve is too small to lead. Disciples must serve and do it positively with gladness of heart. A leader that must be great must be open to ideas even if it looks contrary at the beginning. You must have a listening ear and don’t feel threatened at any point in time.