Selecting New Leaders 1 for Organizations, clubs, teams, and groups is vital to study. Each time I teach leadership qualities and competencies or I’m dedicating emerging leaders, I always ask the audience this question: ‘If you are to select a new set of leaders – Chairman/President, Executive Committees [EXCOs] for your organization for the next tenure, what will form the basis for your selection?’ You will laugh at the avalanche of suggestions they proffer for their choice. They cannot be wrong, it is their perception, and perception they say, is real.
Over the years, their answers to that question have built up my list of competencies people should possess to be good cum, great leaders. Their lists point to what qualifies them and most times to qualities expected of leaders to be sustained. 
More importantly, their lists also give me glimpses into their viewpoint that most of us [our people, you and I] don’t know or understand what a good leader looks like talk less of a great leader or even what is great leadership. This is tragic and painful and points to the fact that realizing our corporate desired purposeful future is far from achieving it [unless God intervenes, but does God do such?].
These two – qualifies [prerequisite for ascent] and qualities [requirements for staying, sustainability] is not [always] easily demarcated, but they are certainly not the same.
But let me ask you, ‘If you are to select a new set of leaders for your organization for the next tenure, what will form the basis for your selection?’
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Reply in the comments below with your opinion on what qualifies and the qualities you’ll recommend for the next set of leaders for your group, and put sentiments apart.
