Last week the first of the new After School Buddies Leadership Academy workshops took place. It's a huge step for our program to actually host weekly, orchestrated sessions addressing key leadership principles that all can benefit from. My dream is that the graduates of these workshops will go on to be amazing, dedicated and committed leaders of ASB - empowering and inspiring our young students to be all that God has in store for them.
Six experienced Big Buddy teens and two adults joined me in the exploration of humility in leadership. From my point of view - it's maybe the #1 principle that all leaders must embrace. But as I look around.. it's not necessarily the one that most leaders actually embody.
We learned that to be an effective leader of others - first we have to lead ourselves. In order to do that well - we need to look inside to see where our own shortcomings are and do what we can to address them. Jesus spoke of this when he told his followers to take out the "log in their eyes before trying to take the speck out of their brother's eye". (my translation..)
Tomorrow we address compassion and then integrity in leaders. How will those traits influence how we lead our ASB programs in 2013? Time will tell!
The next series of workshops for NEW Big Buddies and adult leaders begin November 14th. If you are interested in participating.. please email Charlene at afterschoolbuddies@gmail.com.
