The 3-Stage Model That Inspires Real Change: How to Lead When Leadership Feels Impossible
The practical process of inspiring a team and the napkin sketch that sealed the deal.
She sat across from me at the café, hands wrapped around her coffee, frustrated and full of doubt. For 45 minutes, she poured out her heart, her struggles, her disappointments, her fears. And finally, she asked the real question that every leader asks at some stage:
“Am I just the wrong person for the job?”
The Leadership Crisis We All Face
If you’ve ever led anything, a team, a ministry, even a family, then you’ve probably felt like this. You try to inspire, to cast vision, to encourage, but it feels like standing on a cliff, shouting into the wind. You start to wonder if you’re the problem. You begin to say things like:
“They just don’t seem to want to follow, and there is no one following them!
I can say the same thing over and over, but no one is doing it.”