Part 1 – Leadership Training

I'm posting old Members' Library Home Page articles here to serve as an archive. This one was first published on December 19, 2008, at http://members.characterfirst.com.

Luke Kallberg

The Members' Library is an online portal with more than 1,000 pages designed to give you ideas and inspiration as you discover and practice good character at work, at home, and in all of life. Here’s why this material is so needed and how you can put it to work for you.

Relationships are where the success or failure of our personal character is most openly revealed. Good character breeds good relationships, and bad character destroys relationships. Therefore, any attempt to build good character must focus on our relationships.

Good character doesn’t necessarily guarantee that all of your relationships will be peachy. But if we take a close look at any successful relationship, we will find good character at the core of that success. Over the next few weeks, let me share a four step process for making good character a force in your relationships. You can tailor it to your needs using the material in this members’ library. Today’s focus is “Leadership Training.”

Leadership Training

A character emphasis needs a strong commitment from the leadership in the group or organization. Without the support of parents, a child’s efforts can seem independent or rebellious. Without the support of managers, the efforts of employees can be counterproductive and raise suspicion. But when leaders invest their support and personal example, energy and resources become available and character becomes part of the larger direction that the group is going.

- In what groups, official or not, are you a leader?

- How can your endorsement of these concepts of good character enable those under your influence to learn and implement them?

- How can your example encourage others to practice good character?

- Check out the “Leadership Tips” for each character quality

This article is the first in a four-part series on using the Members’ Library.

Luke Kallberg manages website content for the Character Training Institute.