“Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself, you can’t be a good leader because leadership is built on inspiring others to face challenges” ― Israelmore Ayivor.
We are students while we are working on a live project which makes us learn time management promptly, but that is another case altogether. What is more important is how Emergence School of Leadership teaches its students. We are not one of the many; we are not carbon copies that are churned out of an outdated system.
We just had a week-long retreat that was so aptly called leadership lab. Here we are taught leadership but not necessarily the run of the mill type that you would think. Here through vigorous group activities and in-depth heart to hearts, we learn what our strengths are and how we can utilise them to everyones best advantage.
We also delve into what our weakness’ are. An area that everyone should learn a little from, as Israelmore Ayivor says we all mistrust our abilities at some point. During the week we learnt to not only “own our shadows”, as another brilliant lecturer at the school keeps insisting (Snorre Paulsen), but to be very aware of them and do what we can to stop ourselves from falling into the weakness traps.
We learnt to lead ourselves.
“Self-leaders are still true leaders even if they have no known followers. True leaders inspire by the influence of their characters and general self-made brands. Leadership is defined by the virtues of one’s behaviour.” ― Israelmore Ayivor.
We can now be the very best for when we are working on our projects and can deliver something of which we can be proud. We have built up our strengths and confidences and continue to do so. We have embarked on a journey of empowerment.
