Jeff's Square Dance Related Articles
These are articles related to Square Dancing that I have written. I recently re-found the original WORD files documents for the olders ones. Most of the newer ones have been copied from my archive of "Australian Callers Federation" newsletter "Callerlink", (which I was editor of for several years). The "date" information is based upon the "last save date" of the original documents. Some of the dates might not be correct, but should be close.
What is a leader? (Taken from Callerlink 142 October 2000)
Jeff Garbutt
Simply stated - "a leader is one who has followers". Nothing more - nothing less.
A leader does not have to be:
- A chief executive officer
- A supervisor
- A facilitator
- A manager
- A boss
A leader is a person that other people will follow - simply because they want to.
A leader may posses some skill in which he/she can make people believe that they want to follow him/her. But it is done in a way that involves no commands or directions.
To illustrate the differences between a leader and titles.
* A CEO may decide that everyone should go down the local coffee shop for a get together. The CEO (or his/her secretary) will consult with his/her management team to work out the arrangements, and come up with the necessary action plan to make it happen.
* A manager will call in key members of his/her team and plan a team building exercise, which will involve a meeting at the local coffee shop.
* A supervisor will say "I think it would be a good idea if we all went out for coffee, do you want to come ?".
* A boss would say "Ok everyone, drop everything now, we're going to the local coffee shop".
* A leader would say nothing more than "I'm going out for a coffee" - and everyone else will follow...