Developing Leadership through Delegation
We as Lions at all levels need to learn to delegate. We cannot do it by ourselves, we do not cultivate new leadership by not including our fellow lions in all levels of our activities. By not delegating, We Burn ourselves out early and we leave no one to move up to assume leadership roles.
When we start our year in a leadership role do we have a plan, or do we just jump in and roll with the punches? As a Lions leader we need to start by outlining our projects we want to accomplish during the Lion’s year. Our next step is to form committees and appoint a chairman for each of these committees. Next, we need encourage each chairman to get fellow lions to volunteer to accomplish various aspects of the projects. This is the hard part of the leadership job, if you do it right the rest of the job is easy all you have to do is sit back and facilitate the process. By spreading out the volunteer load we make all of our jobs at the club level easy and not to time-consuming.
At the district level this same process plays out. The district governor appoints the zone chairmen whose job it is to monitor the club in their zone and report back to the district governor about the status of the clubs and to pass on information to the governor. The district governor also appoints various committee chairman whose job it is to institute specific programs within the district, it is their job to form their committee and delegate specific responsibility within committee to accomplish their goals.
The Process is the same for the multiple district. The Council Chairs Job is to facilitate common interests between the district governors and the individual districts. The committees at the district level are formed by combining the committee chairman from the individual districts. That way the workload can be spread out and no one person has the whole workload.
This report emphasizes the importance of delegation within Lions leadership at all levels to prevent burnout and foster new leaders. It outlines the value of forming committees, appointing chairpersons, and encouraging volunteer involvement to efficiently accomplish organizational goals. The same principles apply from club to district and multiple district levels, ensuring responsibilities are shared and leadership is cultivated throughout the organization.
Let’s get every one involved in all levels of our organization this way we will keep lions active and involved, we will bring new lions into our organization, we will grow as a Lions club. We must all remember our lions code of ethics.
Lions Clubs International Code of Ethics
To show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
To seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.
To remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another’s; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.
Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.
To hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labor, and means.
·To aid my fellow men by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.
To be careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.