P-A-R-T Leadership Framework

This is my first post for this leadership blog. I aim to explore many different areas of leadership and to summarise the things that are important to a leader. To start off, I would like to introduce the PART Leadership Framework. This leadership framework is the most fundamental and is the skeleton of what a leader should do.

Preparation and Planning Leaders have to prepare and plan before taking any team. Prepare in terms of physical items and plan in terms of thinking through the entire process. Proper preparation and planning will give sufficient thought for the activity. A leader will then seem to be more confident by being prepared. Details of how to plan will be shared in future posts.

Action via Effective Communication This step involves the leader meeting their team. As a leader, they must know their roles of being both a leader as well as a team player (aka servant leadership). As a leader, they have to communicate their ideas and spread instructions to their team in a clear manner. Effective communication will also be shared in future posts. After all the instructions, they have be part of the team and take action together with their team. This is called serving by being with the team.

Reflection After leading a team, a leader have to take time to reflect and think through of the entire process. Some may called it after action review. Leader has to sieve out learning points. What went right, what went wrong and what can be done? These learning points are essential for the leaders to grow. Many leaders oversee this important step as they think of the immediate ending of an event is really the end. In fact, only after thinking through and gain as much learning point from an event will then an event truly ends. At this stage, be critical to correct mistake and be humble to accept the good points.

Try Again This step is to apply all learning points and use them in the next try. Include all this in the new cycle and consider them in the planning stage. This step is important as it allows a continuous cycle for leaders to seek self improvement. '

The PART model is a simplified model, but covers all essential part of self leadership. The area of action via communication requires a more indept knowledge to truly perform it properly.

A leader can only lead others if they know how to lead themselves.