{"id":2737,"date":"2023-10-05T14:42:55","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T14:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/?p=30"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:53:11","slug":"leadership-pointing-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/leadership-pointing-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Leadership\u2026 Pointing the way."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra stood up one more time and pat came the reply\u2026 this time louder than before, she was correct as always. \u00a0\u201cOh Sandra\u2026 Oh Sandra, not again\u201d, I groaned to myself. The\u00a0<strong>trainer<\/strong>\u00a0in me could not allow this to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"549\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leadership-pointing.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2821\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leadership-pointing.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/leadership-pointing-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandra was a participant in a\u00a0<strong>customer service training<\/strong>\u00a0session. She was a very intelligent and extremely confident lady. \u00a0She handled even the most complicated questions with ease. Her enthusiasm was initially infectious; however, as the day progressed it became burdensome to the others. As the\u00a0<strong>facilitator<\/strong>, I set some firm limits but she paid no heed to them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the\u00a0<strong>leader<\/strong>\u00a0of her team was she displaying good\u00a0<strong>leadership<\/strong>\u00a0traits?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cThe real leader has no need to lead \u2013 he is content to point the way.\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Henry Miller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Half way through the session I was forced to give her some very direct and open\u00a0<strong>feedback<\/strong>. She was not allowing any one to learn and in the process not learning herself. Her behavior was disrupting the session and demoralizing the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I also spent time with her alone and sensitized the need for her to change her attitude and behavior. Although she broke down once, she took all the feedback very bravely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>\u201cTruly great leaders spend as much time collecting and acting upon feedback as they do providing it.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>\u2013\u00a0Alexander Lucia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She started allowing others to speak and gradually started giving more understanding and gaining respect. By personal example she proved her love for her team by acting upon the\u00a0<strong>feedback<\/strong>. She implemented the suggestions given to her as\u00a0<strong>feedback<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And so was born a Leader who understood\u00a0<strong>Leadership as pointing the way.<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php?category_name=assertiveness-business-communication\">Assertiveness<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php?category_name=leadership-development\">Leadership Development<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php?category_name=soft-skills-training\">Soft Skills Training<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/edit.php?category_name=team-building-motivation\">Team Building<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandra stood up one more time and pat came the reply\u2026 this time louder than before, she was correct as always. \u00a0\u201cOh Sandra\u2026 Oh Sandra, not again\u201d, I groaned to myself. The\u00a0trainer\u00a0in me could not allow this to happen. Sandra was a participant in a\u00a0customer service training\u00a0session. She was a very intelligent and extremely confident&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,57,65,68],"tags":[87,93,97,98,103,127,132,150,152,182],"class_list":["post-2737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-leadership-skills","category-soft-skills","category-team-building-skills","tag-communication-skills-training","tag-corporate-training","tag-determination","tag-developing-emotional-intelligence","tag-emotional-intelligence","tag-leadership","tag-leadership-training","tag-personality-development","tag-positive-attitude","tag-workplace-communication-skills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2822,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions\/2822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mmmts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}