12 February 2018

Formation to Attitudes or Activities

The life of an individual and the success of an institution depend on Good Leadership.Good Leadership is to be judged by the importance given to Attitudes rather than Activities.  The animation task of leaders is precisely to promote Attitudes rather than multiply activities. We are often tempted to evaluate a Leader's performance by judging his ability to establish or multiply activities in the administration. Absence of healthy Attitudes leads to the collapse of Activities in an individual or institution. Activities are often a flash in the pan, a showpiece and more often shortlived and fail to deliver without sound attitudes.
What then are Activities and What are Attitudes?
Activities are in a word, "actions" or programs that we engage in the administration of any community or individual /personal project. What inspires and sustains the activities, are the Attitudes. They reflect an habitual mindset or behaviour that motivate the Activities to realise the personal or community projects.
Leadership involves itself with Attitudes and deals with formation of behaviour or minsets. Those who deal with Activities would more appropriately be called "Event managers" .
The role of Superio / Formators is more akin to that of Leaders, concerned with the Attitudes of the Formees rather than their Activities.