4 Ways to Show Balanced Leadership

This week in my maths class, we have been looking at solving equations. To day we explored a method know as balance method for solving equations.
This method states that in solving an equation, what ever you do to the right side, you must do the same to the left side. In class we call it the wheelbarrow method. If you want to transport two 20 liter cans of water, you don't put them one on-top of the other on either sides of the barrow. You put one on each side. Why? To maintain balance.
Leaders are always on the platform, being watched by all. People are looking to see how well they lead. The leader that leads very well by what he or she does earns more respect from his followers and hence becomes more influential with them. Whether you are a parent, teacher, pastor of a church, president of a nation, an army commander, you have been called to lead. People expect to be led by someone they trust to be balanced. As a leader you can show a high level of fairness in the following ways;

4 Ways to Show Balanced Leadership

• The way you treat people: People expect that their leader should not show favoritism in the way he or she treat his or her followers. As a parent you should not allow your children to observer that you love one more than the other. If you want to know more about that you can read the account of Jacob and his children in the book of Genesis. A pastor or any leader for that matter is not expected to treat some followers as more special than the rest. 
• Decision making: Your followers expect you to make decisions putting into consideration all the factors to be considered. Leaders are not expected to take hasty, irrational or ignorant decisions and actions
• Knowledge: How rich is your knowledge bank and how vast is it? Most leaders are very well informed in their field of endeavor but know next to nothing about any other field. Some weeks ago I was teaching in class about rate and I mention Canada. One of the students stood up and asked me what continent Canada is. I told him North America. He went further and asked me to mention 20 countries each in Africa and Europe. I did. Thank God I did. But what is I didn't? What would have happened to my level of influence with them, just imagine.
• Words and Deeds: Followers want to see you work the talk not talk the walk. The more your words and actions line up, the greater their level of trust for you.

If you have any issues with your leadership, you can solve it using balance method.

Please share with any leader you know.