I’m a lot worse at this whole leadership thing than I thought I would be. I came with this preconceived notion of what my leadership should look like, and I thought I had it all figured out. Now I’m finding out that my leadership manifesto needs amending. <br>The leader I thought I had to be wasn’t myself. For example, whenever someone would come to me with the deepest question of their life, I thought I had to respond with only questions so that they could discover the answer for themselves. While that approach can be effective, it was hindering me from actually connecting with my teammates. I would just ask questions instead of actually being myself. I felt like a robot instead of a human. Ew.<br>As I turn off the robotic responses, I’m realizing more expectations that I didn’t know I had on myself: I feel a need to always have the right thing to say. As a human being, that is impossible. I’m learning to just do my best and be myself, and anything beyond my capacity requires me to lean on God for strength and wisdom.
