Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Formation in leadership


Today the need for all of us is to form ourselves to be Leaders. A Leader is the one who walks and accompanies those who are under his care. Leader does not dominate but dialogues and works with the others in order to achieve the goals set together. A Leader is the one who shares his experience of the divine with the rest of those who are with him, the sharing of experience takes place through understanding, loving and being compassionate towards the others. He becomes a mirror of God to the others.

In Our Capuchin Order we do have good leaders but sometimes a little bit of formation is needed to make them stronger and confident in their job of leading and animating. Today in the Multi-national companies a huge amount is spent to train their employees in the dynamics of Leadership in order to increase the productivity. it will happen only when we have people who are relational and who know how to go about mustering the support and cooperation of all.

The Italian Conference has been very active, well organised and systematic. They do organize programs for the newly elected Provincials and Councilors, Guardians and economos of the conference, Everyone is give formation for handling and animating the fraternities.
One such seminar is taking place from today onward in Giovanni Rotondo, Padre Pio's Places. The south Italian provincials, Guardians and others are gathering together for this formative seminar. Brother General, Pio Murat and of course Raffele will be animating guiding the participants.
Good move indeed. The other conferences do have this practice, the others who dont have can think of starting one. 

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