Day 259: Leadership is "Influence"?

Anyone will always have something to say about leadership. “Leadership is influence.” Many would agree and most of the leadership trainings and seminars I have attended here in the Philippines speak the same. However, if we will settle that leading an organization or people has a plain aim to “influence”, whether ‘good’ or ‘very good’, we’ll get nowhere tangible.

The people we lead, even those who are just passive, wants something to ‘see’. Influence, in a sense, is abstract. Therefore if you want to push on the idea of not doing anything tangible but be content on influencing others, well, negative feedbacks from those ‘eyes’ can overwhelm you. But coming from the same standpoint, we can draw something important about “Leadership is influence” and transpose it to something tangible.

Another perspective

Influencing then should be an investment. Investment should grow and flourish. This should bring out good and can perhaps grow offshoots of the same. Establishing a program to determine such investments, or the people we should greatly influence, can turn out to be something tangible. How? Because, at this point, leaders will now pose to make leaders as well.

Like any investment (1) it needs a great deal of time from you, (2) can cost you [a lot], (3) be attached to your heart, mind, and company.

Here's the problem

In our Sangguniang Kabataan, we sometime go haphazard in these terms. For one, we don’t appropriate programs to create leaders, OR though we have the programs already, our constituents’ responses are seasonal. Though the latter may be the reason, we must pursue.

The least

More so, the 2013 barangay elections is at hand. If you can identify, my kagawads and I would not want to create the same groping-in-the-dark moments to those who will come after us. That is why in the last days of the Sangguniang Kabataan for this term, we will devise a program, a dedicated moment, for those interested to run in the office the next term.

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So far, what we have is a proposal laid on the table (technically speaking). Our Punong Barangay, who at the same time acts as the Sangguniang Kabataan’s adviser, demanded us modules to be used for the meetings.

Some of the topics we aim to discuss are:

1. Functions of the Sangguniang Kabataan
2. Functions of the Chairman, and as ex-officio
3. Functions of the SK Kagawad
4. Budget, Allocation, Appropriation
5. Limitations of the SB towards the SK

Hilarious! We even intend to title the above as, “Sangguniang Kabataan VS the Barangay”, which is just fantastical since we are incorporated, but with unique identity, in the barangay governance.

Any more words?

These days I can at least post twice or thrice a week. I'm polishing the works of my kagawads with regards to these modules.

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