In Ken Blanchard's
book, "The One Minute Manager" there is quote that goes something like this, 'When the Best Leader's Work is Done the People Say We Did it
ourselves."
I have known this
quote for a long time and have been a constant student of leadership since my
time serving in a leadership role at Chick-fil-A in my first career. However, it really wasn't until recently I
realized the fulfillment of this quote.
In my position as Scoutmaster I have dedicated my time to developing
young men into good citizens and also great leaders. Using the leadership skills that I had
learned and had been taught throughout my career and then sharing those with
young men in the leadership of the Troop.
During a time that
had prevented me from being present at the Scout meetings and also by my
absence and the absence of others changed the entire planned program for the
month I found that the boys of their own cognizance called a PLC (Patrol
Leader's Council) meeting to develop an alternative meeting plan for the
upcoming weeks. Complete with
games/challenges and activities, what would be taught or worked on and then to
have an after meeting PLC to discuss the following week. I saw evidence of their planning session up
on the white board which even included the times for when each activity would
transition to the next one.
Wow! I thought to myself. We have been conducting PLC's for a while now
and yes, they usually do lead them with an adult such as myself interjecting
with a question or two but oh my, they did this completely on their own without
prompting from an adult and created an action plan. I could not be more proud of them! It was in that moment that I realized the
fulfillment of that quote, "When the best leader's work is done, the
people say we did it ourselves!"
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