Leadership: Helping People Who Get Things Done
In student organizations there tend to be two types of people. People who get things done and people who do not get things done. In further examination of this observation there is one missing plane of orientation, the idea of leadership development stages. Richard Draft suggests that there are four stages of development: unconscious incompetence, conscious incompetence, conscious competence and unconscious competence.
In the unconscious incompetence stage individuals have minimal leadership experience or competence and fail to realize that fact. In the conscious incompetence stage individuals realize their short comings but still do not possess the requisite skills. In the conscious competence stage individuals realize where they are doing well and where they still need improvement. In the unconscious competence stage individuals apply their skills naturally without realizing it(Tucker 217).
After reflecting on these leadership development stages it is clearly important for more developed people to help out individuals who are less developed in order to further the leadership development of the less developed individual.
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