Grassroot Leadership

Grassroot Leadership 3 (The Team Spirit)
By Paul Vandi

The concept of leadership is essentially a concept of Influence and Follower-ship. One person creates the influence, and others are willing to follow to achieve a shared vision.
Leadership is not just about winning, it's about winning and loosing and keeping a Team Spirit. A Team Spirit is not only necessary among football, baseball, basket ball Players, Organisations, the military, or athletes, it's very needed even at the family level.
Parents must cultivate a team spirit for winning at the family level. Family members must be allowed to play from their vantage positions (their individual areas of strength), so as to harness all the energies in the Family. For the most part, the foundation of what people eventually become in life is laid at the family level.

A TEAM SPIRIT LEVERAGES ON EMPATHY

Empathy emphasizes the solution and not the problem. Empathy often tries to look through the eyes of the other person and feel what they feel. People remain where they are not because they have problems but because they overemphasize their problems at the expense of the solution. As it is said, " Too much analysis leads to paralysis." But, when we empathize as a team, we easily solve our problems together.
Every team thrives better and faster when team members are consistently concerned about the well being of other team members. This is what empathy is about.
A Team spirit shows your Victories and Hides your weaknesses, Lack of it makes both your failures and your weaknesses public.

A TEAM SPIRIT LEVERAGES ON THE LITTLE THINGS

Too many potentially Big families and Organizations remain small because they take the little things for granted.
Little things are those things that appear trivial on the surface, but very key if we look beyond the surface. They can Solidify things if we Use them and Liquidate things if we Loose them.

A FEW LITTLE THINGS.

- THANK YOU: It can make people feel important and needed, so they give more.

- I LOVE YOU: It has the capacity to stop suicide.

- I'M SORRY: When we say this, it does more good for us than the people we offend.

- PLEASE, HELP ME: Someone very close to you has what you need. you don't have to act begarly. just let people help you.

The world is made up of different Countries, Continents and Cultures. A team spirit is what we need to truly make the world a global village and a global family.