Mark Edward Brown's Blog

This past week has been a blur, half of it was spent in meetings, one quarter of it was spent prepairing plans and requests to train the warriors that I am in charge of leading and the other quarter culminated in the events that unfolded this afternoon.

Now, before I loose you – stick with me because I am going to explain what I mean about declining leadership as I mentioned in the title.

This past weeks events all culminated in a 4 hour rapelling event for my organization. Most of the warriors that are in my company have all been rapelling before however, some of them had not and as you know any good leader who spots hesitancy or a lack of confidence in his people moves to quickly re-enforce the positivity of how well an individual or team is doing in order to keep momentum going.

Today I was fortunate to be able to demonstrate, encourage and participate with jr. leaders who needed some encouragement in order to rapell down a 30 foot wall. Keep in mind, this event was not a free fall, everyone was tied into a swiss seat or harness and taught the exact technique needed to be successful. Despite all of that there were still some folks that just needed some demonstration and leadership.

By rapelling, i.e. rapidly declining, I use my demonstrational leadership style to show my people how to accomplish the challenge of rappelling. It was exhilerating and rewarding all at the same time. Try demonstrating leadership to your team and see if the results don’t exceed your expectations.

Always to Your Success,

Mark Edward Brown