Community leadership needs improvement.

Putting a focus on regional community leadership.

You will often hear people talking about how regional, rural and remote communities desperately need good leaders. While there have been many changes in how community development should be approached, one thing has become abundantly clear: community leadership is critical.

Accountability is becoming a significant issue. It applies to brands, politicians, businesses, and individual community members. It seems as if every other day, a politician, brand, or organisation is caught up in some scandal. Reputation management has become a growing field of expertise.

If people do not conduct themselves with transparency, integrity, and values relevant to their community, they will be called out for it and vilified on social media, if not publicly.

Do your community leaders light up the countryside, or are they dull?

Perceptions are accurate when it comes to community leadership.

What is the understanding of the most crucial factor in developing regional communities? Is it the presence of highly skilled, highly motivated leaders committed to positive change in a challenging environment, not overpaid bureaucrats?

Alternatively, is it the focus on the community’s entrepreneurial ecosystem? It is where each component of the ecosystem is action-oriented, with education focused on entrepreneurial behaviour.

People think of leaders as people with titles and positions in local government. However, the people there put time and effort into many small activities to improve their daily situation. Talking in high-level terms and ensuring the administration runs efficiently is perfect, but someone must do the work. Encourage people by providing a beautiful and confident environment; they will look after their community with whatever is available.

Everyone should focus on supporting the entrepreneurs and the movers and shakers, and helping and encouraging them to shape and choose the activities the people want and need. It would be best to look no further than the 2018 Commonwealth Games on the Gold Coast to see what a disgrace the opening and closing ceremonies were because the so-called ‘leaders’ did not listen to the people.

There are too many examples of community leadership failure.

All, including the host television broadcaster Channel 7, slammed the Commonwealth Games closing ceremony as a national disgrace. Many people will remember it as a failure in leadership. Are the leaders in your community out of control with spurious, self-serving agendas?

After the disgraceful Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, leaders had the perfect opportunity to redeem themselves. Instead, they dug a more profound and embarrassing hole, ending 11 days of impeccable competition on the sourest of notes. They missed the opportunity to showcase real Australia and the incredible athletes who should have been the primary focus of what most people came to see.

People wonder why engaging the local people in community activities is challenging. Well, it is perhaps time we all changed the conversations about our community and focused activities that people want, not the Politically Correct rubbish that is being dished up by people with minority agendas and who have their ‘snouts in the trough’.

There is much more to leadership than a fancy title

What sort of leadership is supporting your community? Who is doing the ‘heavy lifting’?

Quotable Quotes.

“Where there is no vision, the people perish”. Proverbs

“I must follow the people. Am I not their leader”? Benjamin Disraeli