WHO DO YOU FOLLOW??

In our world of today, everyone desires to be a role model, particularly within the class of those who are young, perhaps because of the special acknowledgment that go with it. But then, if you are hoping to become a role model, do you think you have gathered enough truths needed to model yourself so that others can follow you and be transformed into their ideal selves? While there may be nothing seemingly wrong with bearing the titles like Coach, Consultant, Leader, Mentor, Motivator, as is the case today, do you really know the ins and outs of these titles?

The purpose of this essay is to briefly explain the five role models that you will encounter in your journey to personal transformation when you set out to follow a pioneer leader. Meanwhile, I will be talking about five role models which are: Inspirers, Leaders, Mentors, Coaches, and Motivators. Please, note that these are first one’s identity based on design and second, a role that one can play in order to fulfil a purpose in transforming others into their ideal selves from one stage and phase of growth and development to another.

Inspirers

They bring about the experience of divine influence to encounter a certain level of knowledge in the direction of your leadership purpose because they are well able to cause the emotion or intellect into action towards taking the necessary steps. They influence you by suggesting paradigms that boost your pursuit. However, they are driven by moving and guiding you to discover your true self and are able to draw forth the best in you, especially, in the direction of helping you unleash your true potentials.

Those at the following stage and inspiration phase of their personal leadership growth and development need these people role models.

Leaders

Leaders usually guide and direct others in the path of a known vision. They help you chart the course so you can be able to set the sail. Besides, they are driven towards being in front by virtue of what they have to deliver to you. They are usually a role model citizen that others are willing to follow. Moreover, they know what ought to be done in every given season and always saddened by the state of things, hence, willing to lend a helping hand.

Those at the discipleship stage and discovery phase of their personal leadership growth and development need these role models.

Mentors

These are people who naturally serve as counsellors by virtue of their experiential knowledge and are ready to advice when you are faced with obstacles and challenges that hinder you from moving forward in the direction of your leadership purpose. They are always willing to guide you through the narrow path of life and to teach you usually in an occupational capacity the things needed to be done in order to move for you to the next level of your leadership. They always exhibit the willingness to support you till you come a long way in the direction you are supposed to go.
Those at the collaborating stage and equipment phase of their personal leadership growth and development need these role models.

Coaches

These people naturally examine your actions through their teachings and are willing to instruct and train you in the fundamentals of a given field or sphere of influence, which your leadership purpose is driven towards. They will always direct you in the direction of developing a strategy that helps actualize your goals and provide intensive training in the course of attaining your leadership purpose. They are good at devising means or methods of evaluating your performance and are tuned to seeing the outcome of your actions. However, they are often there to encouraging you, especially, when the intended results do not show up.

Those at the leading stage and deployment phase of their personal leadership growth and development need these role models.

Motivators

They instil excitement that makes you believe you can do anything and always urge you forward by exerting a strong moral pressure of greater possibility ahead. Beyond that, they persuade you to do something beyond your wildest dreams by stimulating and causing an arousal of some sort towards a cause or goal. Importantly, they are not driven to describing the process, rather are tuned to speaking about the results without giving explicit details of the process. Hence, those who follow them must have been armed with the details of the rigours of the process and a resolve to go through them.

The timeline for a meeting of these role models depends on your understanding of your stage and phase. However, because you may under the pressure of producing results from parents, peers, friends, teachers, family members, uncles, and society, understanding the dynamics of your placement under these people may be difficult to ascertain, which sometimes results into being aloof. Nevertheless, this confusion is a lesson that you need to learn so that you can be able to help others.

Who are you following?