It takes more than passion to be a true leader. Listening and loyalty are also important. Delquanda S. Turner has personally observed qualities which I feel represent true leadership.
Those seven (7) leadership qualities are:
- The ability to go beyond just leading staff members.
- Avoid placing your own expectations on a community.
- Be a good listener.
- Be able to talk real talk to those in the community.
- Passion is so very important.
- Be loyal and dedicated.
- Learn to just Say No when necessary.
These qualities are fully explored in two posts in the Series:
In describing effective community leaders in the first post in the Series (Kids Kept Well: Delquanda S. Turner’s Community Mission), she practices what she encourages others to do. What must these leaders be able to do? They must, Turner feels:
“Be able to go into the community, sit at the table, and talk real talk. There have been times that I’ve gone into the community, that I’ve had to take off my ‘work badge’. ‘First of all, this is Delquanda. I was born in this community, and I’m the mother of an African American male’. Sometimes I have to let the community know who I am as an individual”.
- The five-post Series offered a look into true leadership, community leadership planning, and starting a non-profit organization.
Delquanda Turner Series Posts:
- Kids Kept Well: Delquanda S. Turner’s Community Mission
- 6 Qualities of True Leadership (Community)
- The 7th Quality of True Leadership: Just Say No
- Starting and Sustaining a Non-profit Organization
- It Takes a Village: Planning for Community Leaders
Better outcomes through Best Practices (Non-profit leaders)
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