A LEADER: AN INFLUENCER

A LEADER: AN INFLUENCER

Integrity in people

Nurture other people

Faith in people

Listen to people

Understand people

Enlarge people

Navigate for others

Connect with people

Empower people

Reproduce leaders

Integrity in people: as a leader I must commit myself to honesty and impact people with the same, also be reliable. Have a sense of confidentiality; treat matters given to me by people with respect and secrecy. Decide a head of time that I have no price – cannot be bribed. Learn to major on minor issues coz the small things can mess up the big things.
Each day do what I MUST do before you do what you want to do.

Nurture people: focus more on giving than receiving. Show people love, show them respect by acknowledging their abilities for who they are. Need to develop a sense of security around them that they may feel comfortable around. Share recognition and appreciate the people that you lead. Encourage people always.

Faith in people:
Points to take note of are that,
v Most people do not have faith in themselves.
v Most people do not have people who have faith in them.
v Most people can tell when someone has faith in them.
v Most people will do anything to live up to the faith you have in them.
Faith results into BELIEVE in the people hence
Believe in them
Emphasis on their strengths
List their past successes
Instill confidence when they fail
Experience some wins together
Visualize their future success
Expect a new level of living


Listen to people: listening shows respect, it builds a relationship and increases knowledge i.e. through listening one is able get information that they may not be having. Listening also builds loyalty and a connection among people. Listening results to helping people and yourself.

Understand people: every one wants to be somebody therefore nobody cares how much I know until I show them how much I CARE. Everyone needs someone who is concerned. Everybody can be somebody when someone believes in them and understands them. Anyone who helps somebody has helped more people than just that one person.

Enlarge people: look at people and see that they can be, therefore work at bringing in an increase in potential inside of the people you lead. Increase their capacity to grow. The following are suggestion on enlarging people;

v See their potential
v Cast a vision to them for the future
v Tap into their passion
v Address their character flaws/ hindrances.
v Focus on their strengths.
v Enlarge them step by step because it is a process.
v Put resources in their hands
v Expose them to enlarging experiences

Navigate for other people: identify a destination and focus all activities towards that. Plot the course i.e. what route to take. A navigator thinks ahead and also he does offer correction when adjustments occur. Stay with people always.



Connect with people:
v Do not take people for granted.
v Posses a difference mind set i.e. wanting to make a difference
v Initiate movement towards them i.e. great them and go where they are.
v Look for common grounds or points of agreements.
v Recognize and respect differences in personality.
v Find the keys to other lives
v Communicate from your heart
v Share common experiences.
v Move forward once you have connected.

Empower people: be in a position to evaluate them i.e. evaluate the knowledge, skills and the desires they have. Modal for people that is give them an example to follow after. Have the heart to give them that freedom to succeed, transfer authority to them. Publicly show your confidence in them. Always give a feedback and allow or release people to work on their own when that time reaches when you as a leader are sure that they can do it on their own.

Produce leaders: lead well so that others may be motivated and in the process and keep looking for potential leaders and not just followers. Put them firsts and commit to developing them.

In conclusion, results the four Ms of leadership
Model: - let people see what you are doing

Motivate: - encourage people to do what we as leaders are doing.

Mentor: - pour our lives to the people so that they can carry on with the vision.

Multiply: - reproduce after our own kind.