What is your Leadership Absence

The activity director for our Senior Independent Living community does a monthly newsletter for all our residents. In it is a section for me to write an article as the campus administrator. I must admit that among my responsibilities this has gotten overlooked more than once.

This past month I didn't submit an article. But when I read the newsletter, I noticed that a section with my name and picture. I asked the activity director about it. She said that whenever I don't submit an article, she finds an story or poem or cartoon and submits it under my name.

It got me thinking that as leaders we often can have influence even when we aren't present.
-By passing on your leadership values you ensure that the organization operates by those values even without you being there.
-By empowering your leaders to execute with autonomy you communicate that success isn't dependent on your presence.
-By investing is developing your organization's culture you ensure that those norms define your organization whether you are there or not.

We often talk about leadership presence...But what about your leadership absence?



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