by Chaplain Jeff Ortner
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ARE YOU A LEADER?
NATIONAL COMMANDER SAYSITALL IS A LEGEND.
He attended NTC, ANTC, National Academy, and was one of the youngest
ever to attend. He has been to every training camp that Royal Rangers
has known to have. His chest is so full of ribbons and he has earn
ever known awards to Royal Rangers. HE IS A GREAT LEADER and looks
the part wearing the Navy blue smoky hat with gold braid.
But lets look at his great leadership at another angle.
When he became a local commander, it was large outpost of 56 boys,
and 10 leaders. The next year he had only 5 go to district camp, and
no one competed for Ranger of the year from his Outpost. He had just
1 kid advance that year and that was his own boy and his outpost went
to very little activities. That summer, Commander Saysitall, became
camp commander trainer and taught the National Special Activities
class, which was boring, but no one from the District or National
offices noticed, because most had other duties to attend. So no one
was in the room to really find out.
Six months later, National Commander Sayitall, is awarded the
Meritorious Service Award for his personal accomplishments, and some
one is heard to say. �He is a great leader.�
EVEN THOUGH NO ONE ACTUALLY FOLLOWS HIM.
THE POINT MADE IS:
All to often, leadership is confused with personal achievements.
Holding positions doesn�t make one a good leader. Neither passing
test, or attending lots of camps or training classes. When your
outpost shrinks and quality suffers within the local level you work
at. SOMETHING IS WRONG.
#1 Take a good look at yourself.
Most �good� leaders examine themselves quite often to see if
improvement can be accomplished. Set goals of how to improve or make
next year even better.
See if more boys can fit into your program, or more help.
If that can�t be accomplished then, a higher quality Outpost, the
best in the District such as:
The best song, best skit, best camp, best Outpost, best flag, or
whatever you do strive for the best.
.# 2 Get off your self glory act and start striving to have your
position to become replaceable.
That�s right, get your job ready for you to be replaced.
Royal Ranger Leaders, need to begin to learn that the next level of
personal excellence is recruiting, equipping, training, and
motivating subordinates. To one day to take the reins of leadership
when you are gone and have well trained leaders ready to take the
positions when your out of the picture. I submit to you that once
you are a master of a program, if you aren�t inspiring others and
improving leadership, quality, and retention, then you may be just
dead weight.
#3 Become a mentor and mentor others
You as a leader need to be personal and professional at the same
time. Remember souls of young ones are what you are striving for. A
good way to do this is have a evaluation for leadership test. You
may be a great person when it comes to drills, uniforms, camping,
etc. But you may be mean, rude, controlling, or just plain ignore
those below you. If you do then they will lose motivation, quit, or
become very frustrated towards the program.
Have you ever sit down with another leader and tried to figure out
what he is struggling with? Many times leaders, or those just
thrown into the program just go through the motions. They just pass
test, attending activities, or just get promoted. They have a form of
leadership, but lack the substance. They blame their pastor, church,
facilities, lack of money for not improving or the kids are just
plain stupid. If this is true then you as a leader are facing a
bigger problem that needs to be fixed.
Commanders that are frustrated and running out of ways to motivate
their Outpost and other leaders. It is all to often that all they
need are practical suggestions and help from you. A encouraging word
and few pointers helping others can go a long ways instead of looking
down on that leader as ignorant stupid people.
Remember these 2 things
A. YOU GOT TO CALLED INTO THIS MINISTRY. Just filling in and just
being a leader will not get the job done. This is a true �calling�
working with Royal Rangers. Pray for a vision, a calling, burden, or
a answer to your dryness with this program.
B. THIS ISN�T A GLORY SHOW FOR YOUR GREAT ACHIEVEMENTS.
You must learn to take care of your boys and your position will take
care of itself. Don�t try to take care of yourself so much. If you
do, you�ll see yourself put at the last of the line by many other
leaders and boys. Promotion is good, but when you allow �self� to
get in the way of your youth or boys. You lost the cause and need to
pick it back up again.
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"Do to others as you would have them do to you."
-- Luke 6:31 (NIV)
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