Leadership Myth #4 (of 5) - Your staff is here to support you.

(this is the fourth of 5 daily posts expanding on the recent blog post by John Erdman)
Myth #4 - Your staff is here to support you.
In corporate america, many of my supervisors lived this message. Many of us were at their beck-and-call, and it was not seen as an appropriate use of their time to train, answer questions, or be interrupted with things...

Reality #4 - Leadership is about being a servant, supporting your staff and helping them succeed.
What a great example of servant leadership I now have in Dave Wright and the other leaders of Camp Tecumseh. I can't tell you the number of times I've seen these great Camp Directors bend over to pick up a piece of trash as they walk the grounds... this is one of the things we encourage campers to do, and the example to follow comes straight from the top. Living out servant leadership is one of the best parts of this organization. Just last night I watched (and joined in) as staff served the board of directors. Anything imaginable from running to the kitchen for a missing utensil, to managing and preparing their binders (and lugging the boxes of them back to the office)... everything was done with a focus on our guests in camp.