Teaching, the Better Way
This deserves more time than I have given it …but last night on a triple stand by flight situation.. I was thinking about how good leaders need to be great teachers. Two thoughts kept running through my mind.
the first was…Great leaders are great learners and great learners are better leaders. The second was about how leaders need to learn how to teach better. My whole life I have been told that the very best way to learn something is to have to teach it to someone else. So my note pad has these scribbles…
we must learn to learn better
we must learn to teach better
we must teach to teach better
we must teach to learn better
Some of the greatest leaders in my life were also the greatest teachers in my life. They taught me not only a better way to do things, but a better way to see things….including myself. Great leaders/teachers use insight to change eyesight… they can literally change the way we see the world. As we learn to see better and do better…we are really learning how to be better. As our minds change for the better we become aware that our lives are also changing for the better and our gratitude for the teachers/leaders in our life grows.Â
Great leaders change live forever…. They do this primarily through their ability to inspire and grow or inspire growth in the people around them. Though this is just one aspect of teaching in leadership it is a vitally important one.
Managers tend to tell… great leaders tend to teach.  Teach to reach, so you can inspires, not require to achieve the results you desire. ~ Kirk Weisler
To reach your people…. teach your people a better way.Â
Teaching, …it’s the better way.