Leadership in families

This weeks post will revolve around leadership in a family and the impact it has on the household and extending even to the community and expanded families. Recently there was death in my family that although we expected still was shocking to hear, as expected. This person lived overseas and so my family and I, including aunts, uncles and cousins stayed in their house in the mean time. This event although tragic has provided a lot of insight into a situation in which we don’t focus on in class. With this person’s death, the household lost a lot of direction and although there was someone who seemed to be an obvious leader, some one else rose to the occasion to make sure all decisions were made with care. This new leader was able to control their emotions and act as anchor for the whole family. They were able to sit down with members of the family critical decisions on what the next steps are. Although this person didn’t have a clear vision of what would happen, their confidence when speaking was inspiring. This allowed the leader to gain the trust of the other family members, followers, to make sure everything was tied up before leaving again overseas. I don’t know that I would have noticed this if I had not been taking this class, but I’m glad I did. Seeing leadership in this setting was insightful and refreshing since most leadership is talked about in a business context.