WELCOME TO THE ELITE ETA ETA LAMBDA CHAPTER
Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Incorporated
Why Leaders?
Leadership & Leadership development.... A process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal. Any activity that enhances the quality of leadership within an individual or organization. Good leaders are driven towards a mission that everyone can get behind. They know how to motivate a team through honesty, transparency, and genuine passion. Great leaders inspire other leaders to be great, both internally and externally.
Leadership is never easy. No matter how effortlessly some leaders appear to manage, the path of a leader is one fraught with constant challenge and surprise. However, the leader does not face the challenge alone. By definition, a leader has a group or organization working to meet each challenge and achieve each goal. The leader's job is not to solve every problem alone, but to inspire those he or she leads to solve the problems. Good leaders recognize that they do not have all the answers and are constantly reeducating themselves on their businesses and sharpening their leadership skills.
"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
- U.S. President Barack Obama
“If your success is defined as being well adjusted to injustice and well adapted to indifference then we don't want successful leaders. We want great leaders - who love the people enough and respect the people enough to be unsought, unbound, unafraid and unintimidated to tell the truth.”
- Bro. Dr Cornel West
"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
- Malcolm X
The “Qualities of a leader”
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Gentlemen – are respectful, friendly, and helpful
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Pride – walk tall, head up, love myself
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Responsibility – family first, business then pleasure
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Integrity- be truthful, take responsibility
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Humility – admit I don't know
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Poised - don't let irritations bother me
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Goals - make high, but attainable
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Prepare –practice and organize
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Hard work – pays off
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Facts - analyze then conclude
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Take advice - but do my own thinking
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Vision – think big and think ahead
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Communicate - express my thoughts effectively
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Respect - say please, thank you, yes ma’am, yes sir
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Team – not I but we