Leadership Lessons from Village Life-Part-1
Lesson-3-Life Skills
In those days only few houses had TV Sets in
villages & connectivity was not so
good, hence my evenings were not as entertaining like city life but I used to
have a good time in the mornings with my relatives and their friends in the
village
We all meet in one of our home Thinnai and
discuss our plans for the day, one of the favorite activities was swimming in
the well, which was a strict no from my family members, but I used to go along
with my friends. One of my relative was an expert in swimming and he will force
us to enter the well, which some of us will avoid but others will try it out.
First of all, he will enter the well and swim
for some time and create a feeling it is easy to do it, a good Leader should
demonstrate how to do it before teaching or delegating a task
Second, he will talk with confidence and
share his stories of how he learnt swimming, a true leader should inspire
people with their experience
Third, he will spread both the hands and ask
one of the boys to lie on his hands and ask him to move his hands and lift his
legs, while doing this the expert will
withdraw his hands and other person will start drowning and expert will
quickly pull him back and give him the assurance that he will take care, after
few days of practise, few of my relatives go back with one life skill to their
home.
The Greatest quality of Leader is giving
confidence and building trust while training their subordinates.
There is no great sophistication in a village
life, but there was lot of life out there. Each and every moment in a village
teach us simplicity, life skills, working with limited resources and above all
it teaches us the ability to relate and work with others.
There is life in a village and hence there is
lot of life skills to learn, similarly when Leaders gives life to their role
they play, they will add value to their subordinates’ life too
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