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.
Take a leadership role in your family and become more effective and successful as a parent leader.
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. One way we become better leaders of our own lives is to practice self-awareness and self- growth. Without self-awareness it’s very hard to create a vision for your own or your family’s future. Self-growth lets us bridge the gaps of where we are today and where we want to be.
Use positive communication in your family 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’re going to say or do. This is much more effective than just impulsively reacting. Think about what you’re going to ask of your child and give them choices. This puts the responsibility and the consequences into their hands.
View problems as opportunities.
I don’t know a family on this Earth that doesn’t experience “problems.” One way to view problems as opportunities is to view change as a natural part of life. Your perspective and attitude regarding change will largely determine how well you deal with it. In addition, we want to develop our problem solving skills. The more problems we solve, the more confidence we have in our ability to solve problems, and the better we become at quickly generating solutions to challenges that come up in life. Instead of going into stress mode when problems arise, jump into problem solving mode.
A great parent leader practices emotional intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify, assess, manage, and control the emotions of one’s self. To practice emotional intelligence, one must recognize and develop the five competencies of emotional intelligence – self-awareness, intelligently managing our emotions, motivation, empathy, and social skills. At the same time, as parents, we must provide opportunities for our children to learn these same skills. Emotional intelligence is one of the greatest predictors of success in people today, over intelligence and education.
Maintaining balance within your family is important.
You may become stressed if your family doesn’t have balance. It may be difficult to cope with problems that occur. Try to avoid over committing your life. Make sure you take time to be together as a family, develop your relationships, and align your life with your vision and family values.
Raise your kids to do great things and inspire others.
John Quincy Adams said, “If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” How does your leadership as a parent let your children do these things? Help your children to be the best that they can be and in the process you may just become the best parent you can be.
How do you lead your family? What else would you add to this list?
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Positive communication, emotional intelligence are some of the important characteristics each parent should possess so that they can raise their children in a good way that they will stick to even in the future. Thanks for sharing this informative and useful tips that are more beneficial.
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