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\"Columbia<\/a><\/p>\n

Throughout the course of my law enforcement career, I found myself\u2014like many others\u2014working to serve and in turn, to have the opportunity to advance in my profession.\u00a0\u00a0As I sought those special assignments, lead roles on projects and ultimately promotions, I learned that my development was truly only a part of what should be my objective towards greater successes.\u00a0And somewhere around the halfway point in my career, I realized the following:<\/p>\n

My first job\u2014when I get a job\u2014is to find someone to take my job.<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Again, I didn\u2019t see this early on; it took me a few years to understand that I could only be as successful as those I worked with, and in turn, the more successful I was in my role they in turn would be more productive and successful as well.\u00a0\u00a0It was imperative that I grew and learned additional and more advanced skills in each new position, so that I could be prepared for new opportunities.\u00a0\u00a0And it was equally essential that I invest my time, learning and mentoring into those who were seeking to advance into my position.\u00a0\u00a0Most importantly, I needed to seek these colleagues throughout my organization.<\/p>\n

This, I soon understood, is indeed the essence of leadership:\u00a0\u00a0To use my opportunities to help others find, and triumph, through opportunities of their own.\u00a0\u00a0As I sought to examine the most effective leaders I had been influenced by, and as I did, I recognized their profound and sustained sense of focus upon the well-being and success of others.\u00a0\u00a0I saw how often that was evidenced by how they continued to put people in assignments and situations that they could and regularly did succeed in.<\/p>\n

That sounds oddly obvious, but it was more than a matter of the organization choosing someone who could\u00a0do<\/i>\u00a0the job<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0In fact, those leaders all supported their staffs by putting individuals into roles in which the employee would\u00a0make the job<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Employees who would use their skills and learning to develop new methods and strategies to solve problems, to work with community members in new ways and find moments where proactive steps could be taken and thereby dramatically reducing the future need for reactive actions to be summoned.<\/p>\n

I also found that the other common theme among these leaders was that they themselves weren\u2019t always of a superior rank.\u00a0\u00a0Someone who was influential and a mentor wasn\u2019t necessarily a supervisor.\u00a0\u00a0Over the years, I have known and worked alongside many peers and a number of those who I was entrusted to supervise and develop who contributed greatly to my own ongoing development.\u00a0\u00a0And as I found opportunities to venture into new fields like teaching, politics and consulting, I found that those and other industries were being led by very similar mindsets.<\/p>\n

Indeed, a person who is in public service can find him or herself in a very dynamic and often fast-moving environment.<\/p>\n

And yet, even in such a highly-active time in the public sector, it is now important well beyond what it has ever been before to effectively lead and develop and prepare the newest members of our local, regional and state and national governments to have both a vision and the skills to lead in the future.\u00a0\u00a0They will need not only confidence, but vision, skill sets that are diverse and tested, but also an authenticity and sincerity that is easily perceived and evident as they serve their constituents.<\/p>\n

Those who are in leadership positions now must make candid assessments of their current influence, and determine quickly and accurately those steps and strategies they can make to ensure both a positive and a lasting legacy upon the organizations and communities they have dedicated themselves to.<\/p>\n

While I consider the emphasis I have placed in this message in public service, it is certainly a message that can and should have value in any realm of life and service\u2014public and private sector alike.\u00a0\u00a0But to those who are served most directly through and by public agencies, it is indeed a reasonable expectation from among\u00a0those who are served<\/i>, and a most appropriate goal by\u00a0those who do serve<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And we all know that wherever we set a goal, it is that expectation that ultimately is pursued.\u00a0As leaders, we should always maintain very high expectations and goals that are commensurate and consistent with the talented professionals we have been provided to develop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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