This photo is my Sister in law. She isn’t pretty by the worlds standards, however she has the biggest heart for those hurting in this world.
How many times as leaders have we made a snap judgement because someone looks different. Maybe they are overweight or their teeth aren’t prefect… and we look at them and think they can’t do this job how can they lead?
What if instead of looking at what was on the outside we took a moment and reviewed the inside? How would this look at our jobs and in our day to day lives?
As leaders we often have to make quick decisions, our teams expect us to know what’s going on and how we are to accomplish our goals, however these decisions don’t have to be made based on what we see on the outside. We can take a moment and talk to our teams, find out what motivates them, what their goals are.
I love this quote from Brennan Manning
“To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.” – Brennan Manning
As leaders our main job is to raise up those around us, sure it’s important to make the company money and reach goals, however we can’t do any of those things if we don’t have a good team and that doesn’t mean pretty! It means people who have the potential to lead and get the job done!
This week when you go into work, I challenge you to look at the people around you, the ones you don’t always see and think about what good they bring to your organization. For example the person who cleans your office, they may seem unimportant, but think about it your office was always dirty and you couldn’t sit down? You couldn’t do your job! Or the person who makes the coffee, I can’t imagine any of us think that person isn’t important!
Next get to know these folks ask they how they are, what are they doing? Maybe she’s a student working towards a degree, or a single dad who works at night to be with his kids during the day. Our next post will take this a step further! But for now… see the people, not what they look like but who they are!
Leadership Simplified 