 LEADERSHIP - GEORGE GREGAN STYLE
George Gregan's presentation on leadership during his visit to the Rotary Club of Sydney this week was timed to coincided with the commencement of the selection process in the 2007 International Rotary Youth Leadership Awards.
The importance of leadership is best understood in the presence of a great leader and to me the articulate, polite & quietly spoken George Gregan exemplifies this. I found George's views on leadership so brilliantly simple that I want to share them with you.
Sport and the Community
George reassured us that sport is not only a community event but a highly important community building event because it creates leaders, it intills honesty, ethics and values on all that participate. George pressed that it is important to the Australian Wallabies team that they both win and lose well. This value alone in such a competitive international team commands respect.
So how then does George Gregan view leadership?
Principles of Leadership
George says that great leadership can be witnessed at the leading edge of all teams regardless of whether the team is an organised sport, a business or simply a leading community individual, and that great leadership occurs when five elements are present in individuals.
1. Understanding
This is a mental element that requires one to develop a keen understanding of their role in the team and how this role relates to other people around them. The contribution that this role will make to the ultimate goal or outcome sought.
2. Learning
This is a physical element that requires one to practice the role until it is second nature and can be confidently performed in extreme situations without thought.
2. Performing
To actually perform the role and take action. This is about discipline and requires one to be in position to focus, concentrate and to perform their role under different or extreme circumstances. It is in this element that one's commitment can be tested.
2. Feedback, Giving & Receiving
This is a retrospective and confidence building element that feeds back to points 1 & 2 enabling a person to know how they are performing in their role in the eyes of their contemporaties. Feedback must always be constructive and welcomed.
2. Acceptance
The final element is one of accepting ones role and the responsibilities associated with it. It is to do with commitment and satisfaction in ones role.
Thank you & best wishes to George Gregan.
It was a great pleasure for to have George Gregan visit the Rotary Club of Sydney and reassuring to learn that in sport while traveling the globe the Australian Wallabies Rugby Team are distilling the principles of Rotary at a time when Rotary International is preparing for the 2007 Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA).
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| Wallabies Captain George Gregan with Past President Bill Locke. |
Sargeant at Arms Ann Burlleigh with Wallabies Captain George Gregan. |
Wallabies Captain George Gregan with Past President Geoff McIntyre. |
Written and published by Mark Dyer.
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