Facilitation Quotes

A leader's job is not to do the work for others, it's to help others figure out how to do it themselves, to get things done, and to succeed beyond what they thought possible.

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

Leadership does not mean domination

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Leadership involves not so much marching gloriously at the head of a parade as paying quietly for the parade permit and the cleanup afterward. Leading the world means acting not as its Commander-In-Chief but as its concierge.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.

Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.

I will lead my people by the hand along the road until their feet are sure and they know the way. Then they may choose for themselves and rule themselves. Then my work will be done.

Leadership is not about you; it's about investing in the growth of others.

I'm quite good at bringing people together.

I think leadership is service and there is power in that giving: to help people, to inspire and motivate them to reach their fullest potential.

I think a lot of people, when the word leadership is used, they think of it as quite forceful and quite a rigid thing. I think people think I am like that. But people can lead in different ways.

Leaders get people to do what they otherwise wouldn’t do.

I think governance is about giving people an opportunity to engage with you on subjects that you are responsible for, believing in people's capacity to deliver, and allowing them that platform plus project their work.

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

As president, I was more successful; I had more opportunity than as prime minister. Why? I didn't have the power to give orders, to command, but I had the opportunity to call people to volunteer. In my period of presidency, I never heard the word 'no.'

If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

I'm not on this earth to be a goalie. I'm not here to stop somebody from accomplishing their goals. If you're not hurting anybody, I'm here to either assist or get out of the way

A lot of people think that public speaking means that you are standing at a podium giving a speech, but public speaking comes in lots of different formats.

At its deepest level, I think teaching is about bringing people into communion with each other, with yourself as the teacher, and with the subject you are teaching.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.

I always say, as a leader, you've got to know when to get out of the way.