Summoned Leaders Seek Good Vibrations

The biggest challenge for leaders is finding the right people to join you in your mission. This is the area in which your leadership will be most challenged and most defined. Finding the right people to put in the right places to lead in the most important way is essential to success for you organization. When it comes to building a team you want to have a team “you can listen too.” A “sound” leader will not expect his team to only listen to and follow him, but the leader will listen to his team in order to lead. As Dr. Sweet states that a summoned leader will say, “I hear you.”

1. Seeking Good Vibrations
“Hire attitude and aptitude. Train for skill.” Leanard Sweet
“Great leadership is less trying to find people to fit in than finding people who can fit together.”
Leaders conduct job “inner-views” and not interviews.
People who fit together form the best team.

2. The Right Spirit
The growing recognition of the dangers of a “bad spirit” can be seen in the way more and more companies are firing clients and contractors. It is now company policy to do business with clients that “fit” in the business world and have the right spirit.
The wrong spirit is the spirit of negativity. Negative people send out lousy vibrations and can be very destructive to your team, and to your organization. It doesn’t matter what values or what your mission statement says if you have negative people on your team you are going to struggle.
You are looking for clients, for employees, and for volunteers with the “right spirit”. They are enthusiastic, they are optimistic, they seem to smile, and they love people. These have the right spirit. As a leader building a team “spirit comes first.” (pg. 78) Greatness to your organization comes from within – spirit, character, loyalty, honesty, soul. (pg. 79)
As a leader seek to hire people with the right spirit.

3. Be a “right spirited” leader.
There are three aspects to leading with a right spirit, confidence, humility, and Risk taking.
a. Confidence
A right spirited leader will have confidence to lead. He will have great energy. A confident leader will have the energy and enthusiasm to make things move. Organizations help their leaders have confidence by giving the leader the support he needs to lead. The organization should allow the leader the means to determine the goals, the provision and financial motivation to achieve those goals, and the power and authority necessary to accomplish those goals.
A confident leader will have focused enduring goals that allow him to determine a direction in which to head. He will have the resources necessary to move his company forward once the goals are established, and he will be compensated well enough to keep him motivated. The last thing a confident leader needs is the appropriate power and authority to accomplish any task that is before him.
b. Humility
A right spirited leader will have the ability to check their ego. They will not “Edge God Out”. These leaders are honest. The humble leader is happier and more motivated and incredibly interested in how the “team” is doing rather than how he is doing. A leader with the right spirit will promote “team spirit.” (pg 82) You will hear them talking about their team and how the team is doing. Not only does the leader rise to his calling, but the Divine raises up those team members that fit on his team. These humble leaders have a cheerfulness and natural modesty (pg 82) that promotes this fact.
c. Taking Risks
Leaders with the right spirit are aware of the necessary risks that need to be taken to move their organization forward. Risk is just a short name for movement, for change (pg 83). In leadership the “handicap principle” states that a leader must pay a price to ensure the survival or thriving of his organization and team. Leaders have to pay a significant cost, or handicap to ensure the survival of the team. The leader must take the necessary risk to build the “right spirit” into his organization.
Having a right spirit comes first. It is more important than vision and values that unify us. As leader the greatest risk you may take is letting someone with the organization that has a negative spirit go. There are three negatives that leaders can’t tolerate. People who are not enthusiastic or fired up should be fired. Second, people who have an emotionally sorrow disposition that is toxic to the team should be let go. Lastly, people who are afraid to move for fear of making mistakes, or for not learning from those mistakes should be let go.
Leaders take the risks that allow them to create the “right spirit” on their teams. In turn this creates a team spirit that allows the leader to say, “I hear you.” Seek good vibrations.