Are you the kind of leader that others can stumble with?
Don’t we all need that? The kind of leader who will help us back up, keep us standing in our dignity when we have stumbled or fallen. This kind of leader is also likely to offer us a place to just show up, test and try things out, to explore a bit.
I’ve been thinking about the people in my life to whom I can more easily offer this this way of being, and where I have to work harder. What is it in our relationship and my own value system that facilitates or hinders this? How am I getting in the way? And then there are all the places I don’t have a handle on!
What got me on this track was a friend recently sharing that somebody she knew is known as the kind of person you could stumble with. What a wonderful description of humaness!
I don’t know her, but it sounds like she’s the kind of lady who can offer an unconditional acceptance of whoever she is engaging with, space, time and the capacity to set aside the kind of judgement that minimises or diminishes.
I’ll bet she’s far more than somebody you can stumble with too. I’ll bet she also has the kind of open-hearted leadership presence that just inspires self-belief, confidence and a kind of lightness that has you feel like you are walking on air and about 10 feet tall.
Do YOU know somebody like her?
