Seeing it all come together.

I am an educator and along with my regular duties, I coach a middle school quiz bowl team. For those of you that may not know quiz bowl is, it is kind of like Jeopardy for teams of 4 and you don't have to answer in the form of a question. Yesterday was our state tournament and my kids did awesome. We were the state runner up, which is the highest any team from our school has ever finished. As I have started my journey in leadership, I realized that I had picked my captain based on reasons that we should be picking other leaders to help develop. This young lady has a sense of maturity, stayed level headed, took answers from teammates in the team round when she didn't know, consulted with her team on a team round category, and worked for the betterment of her teammates. As leaders, growing others into leaders should be a principle that we strive for. What I saw in my captain is that I had followed 2 laws from John C Maxwell's "The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership." The ones I noticed in particular where The Law of Empowerment(only secure leaders give power to others) and The Law of Reproduction(It takes s leader to raise up a leader.) It gave me great satisfaction I had used another one of Maxwell's laws, The Law of Intuition(Leaders Evaluate Everything with a Leadership Bias.) I'm glad to see these things this early in my journey. I'd love to hear where you are seeing leadership grow in your journey. Please email me BatesThoughtsOnLeadership@gmail.com and share! Sign up below for my Daily Thought.

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