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ESTATE NEWS
THE BIG PICTURE
ESTATE MATTERS
EDUCATION

your advantage? Do you know your areas • Leaders do not control others. success. In other words, you base your
of development and your gifts? Are you • Leadership is a learnt skill. Some self-worth on your performance and
aware of the opportunities that lie before people are natural leaders, where output, which leads to burnout, stress
you? others develop the skill. and lack of meaning in life.
• Leadership is not a title.
Many adults are unaware of these LIFE IS A JOURNEY
things, yet, some are running The best definition of leadership is: the My work offers me a unique opportunity
companies whose staff are at the mercy responsibility you take for the influence to engage with people on a very deep
of their blind spots. you have on the world around you. level. Many of these people include
top business leaders, successful
Self-awareness is the secret ingredient to THE HIGH ACHIEVERS entrepreneurs, doctors and CEOs. Those
knowing what your purpose is. School is an academic institution based leading the most exciting and influential
on the principles of education, learning lives have realised that there is no final
LEADERSHIP and knowledge. To measure progress, destination, finish line at the end of
Leadership is a big theme in school, it needs quantitative results, i.e. tests the rat race, or beacon at the top of
particularly as you draw closer to and exams. Therefore, performance at the ladder where they get awarded for
Matric and titles become prioritised: school is based on marks and academic ultimate achievement. Their success
Head Boy, Head Girl, Prefect, Student achievements. and motivation come from their ability
Representative Council, etc. to embrace the journey and whatever it
Even though school takes the majority brings.
There is so much information about of your time, you are still more than your
what leadership is, and yet it is still marks. Unless you plan on becoming an You do not have to have yourself, your
misunderstood. To understand what academic and spending the rest of your career and your life all figured out. Just
leadership actually is, it is sometimes days reading, researching and publishing take it a step at a time.
necessary to first know what it is not. papers, there is a lot more to life than
• Becoming a leader is not a just developing your intellect.
popularity contest.
• Leaders are not in charge of others There is an unhealthy and unbalanced
– those are managers. You can be focus on this element of people “The
a manager without leadership skills development. Even if you are a high
and be a leader without being a achiever and school comes responsibility
manager. easy to you, you risk becoming
• Leaders are not appointed. identified with smartness and you take for the
influence you

have on the
A LETTER TO HIGH world around

you”
SCHOOL STUDENTS

WHY DO ADULTS ASK KIDS WHAT THEY WANT TO

DO WHEN THEY GROW UP? TO GET IDEAS!

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