Manifest Leadership 04 Proving By Improving part 2 Lead By Example!

There was a survey done by a large banking company last year trying to discover what made a leader easier to follow, and by a large margin, the number one answer is when people lead by example.

This is really good news for you. Because this is something you can choose as a leader. You can choose to be a great example. You can choose to embrace good character and make godly decisions. You can choose to learn how to relate to people. You can choose to be honest. You can choose to be sexually pure. You can choose to be generous.

Think – every weekend I generally preach 3-5 times, and I expect people to sit, listen, learn, take notes and think about what I say. You know what gives me credibility is that I am often doing that myself. I am off to Grace and Faith next week, and I already have purchased a leather notebook and expensive pen ready to take notes and listen to everything that I am going to learn. I am a lifelong learner. I am leading by example. When I preach, it is clear to most people I am not going through the motions, I have studied, I have learned, I have listened to others.

This is one of the core tenets of leaders. Those who build teams successfully do it because they model what they expect from others. They don’t ask people to do things they won’t do. All my pastors will drive 2-3-4 or more hours to go preach to just a few people – why? They are following the example I set. Some people criticize that – it’s too far for too few people – but they don’t understand the power of reaching people, so it is up to me to model that so people catch the spirit of going as far as you need to, even to reach one person!

You get to decide what kind of leader you are by deciding what kind of person you are – you set standards for yourself and they will be modelled by those who follow you.

Ask yourself today – are you the kind of leader you would be happy to follow? If not, make some different choices.