What is leadership and why should parents care? Leadership is the ability to inspire yourself and others to take positive action in life. Every individual and organization needs leadership. What is an organization exactly? An organization is a social arrangement that pursues collective goals, controls its own performance and has a boundary separating it from its environment. Your family is one of the most important organizations in the world and your family needs leadership.
To take a leadership role in your family, there are several components that will make you more effective and successful as a parent leader:
First off, you can't be an effective and successful leader to your children if you aren't a leader of your own life. You need to decide who you want to be as a mom. Our kids watch our behavior to learn how to behave in the world. We need to make sure that we are the positive examples we want our children to model after. One of the ways we become better leaders of our own lives is to practice self-awareness and self- growth. Without self-awareness it is very hard to create a vision for the future for you and your family. Self-growth lets us bridge the gaps of where we are today and where we want to be.
Using positive communication in your family is the second tool that you need to do to be a successful parent leader. When you use positive communication with your children, you tend to get better results. Yelling creates a negative reaction with your children and causes us to become out of control. Once we as the parent are out of control, the child becomes out of control. A real leader has the ability to communicate to anybody to take positive action. An effective leader has the tools to respond instead of reacting to a situation. When you respond instead of react, you pause and think about what you are going to say or do. This is much more effective than just impulsively reacting. Think about what you are going to ask of your child and give them choices. This puts the responsibility and the consequences into their hands.
The third tool an effective parent leader uses is to view problems as opportunities. I don't know a family on this Earth that does not experience