Feelings

#Beingaleader means you should not be driven or swayed by feelings. Yours or theirs. Good or bad. Don’t let them control you or take you places you do not want to go or that undermine your vision or your destination for your team.

#Beingaleader means you shouldn’t be driven by your feelings. You are human like the next person (even if others don’t always think that about you). You have emotions and you (at least sometimes) like to express them. However, #Beingaleader means you need to check your emotions or at least temper them to understand the impact beyond you and show wisdom in expressing them to the right people. Take a second to think before letting the emotion get the better of you.

#Beingaleader means you shouldn’t be driven by their feelings either. Meaning you should not let their outburst of emotion affect your day, your demeanor or your outlook for the success of you team or project. They might not be a leader. They might be an immature leader. Their emotion should not cause you to lose your focus on what is important. And besides, often their outburst is over and done with pretty quickly. Try not to react to it. Try not to become down with it. Growing in leadership is also growing in temperament for handling such outbursts.

Feelings can have a good or bad affect on you. The hope is that experience and some lessons learned along the way will help you to even out the highs and lows a bit so as to have the most consistent leadership you possibly can. That doesn’t mean you don’t get excited in either a positive or negative way. I’m talking about how you express it to those that you lead. Solomon said it this way: “The one who has knowledge uses words with restraint, and whoever has understanding is even-tempered.” (Proverbs 17:27)

#Beingaleader means that while you do have feelings you should never let them control you.