Juggling between Leadership and Management - Rabbi Richard Jacobs

[Music] I'm in a very interesting situation right now having run this seminar for the last 10 11 years and spoken for a number of years as the last slot right hey I'll tell you it's normally a very short slots and it's normally shorter than it usually is and it aims to be because everyone overruns right I think this is the first time you've ever actually hit run on share do more or less throughout and reach this stage I'm also an interesting situation because what I normally do is ask an orange shoot on some handymen a saying said what are you going to speak at this Tara seminar I said well I have a number of different options but really what I'm going to do is I'm going to pair a number of different modules I'm gonna see what people talk about throughout the day and then I'll strike off different things that are covered by different speakers and we'll see what comes together at the end so now we'll see what comes together in the end wide like store I'd like to talk about entirely different facet of curve to anything we've heard about today and this may be a strange exercise to do but it's a fast theme we'll do it anyway you know everyone has in their minds sometimes they have an image that helps them relax right so if you close your eyes and you think about it one of the images that forever reasons I'm from Scotland I went through University in Scotland just it is one of these things that is a curious image it's like if you can picture if you can visualize a pint of Guinness being pour it and slowly settling right if you can't visualize a pint of Guinness settling it's something you should on your list of things to do before your next birthday right just watch it right when you pour any glass any drink right what normally happens arguing a bottle of pixie max whatever happens to be I pour it to one of these plastic cups of froth soaked right take any gas drink gas burst so interacts with the surfaces at the side that frost those with a cup you pour a paint the Guinness and you watch it something incredible happens if you look at it right your patreon I spray it's nice dark heavy stout beer with a white creamy head what happens is the bubbles don't from the outside so you've got this paint of beer that's pouring and you see the head frothing up but the bubbles are going down they're safe now we all know that's not the way bubbles cool and liquidy right when you pour your drinks bubbles go up so why did bubbles cook diamond on the side or paint the Guinness some people actually took this to a very serious investigation and spent substantial amounts of money and time researching it and I guess this is the reason why there is physics to find out what was happening here and actually isn't just that my goodness it happens in other liquids as well it's just that other liquids it doesn't it happen so fast you don't see it and again it's the same process is slow and the contrast of colors makes it visible what happens is just like every other drink the bubbles go up the bubbles go up in the middle of the drink it comes up and I call it gets pushed to the side and then it comes into contact with the surface of the glass on the ages in the rim and it gets dragged down by the surface tension and so you can see the lines of the bubbles being dragged down now normally when I give this model I say you know this the muscle is a very obvious Marshall for kirov if you're connected to the source of you're connected to Torah you're always going up you're pushing forward if you're going out there and care if you come into contact with the outside world thus symbolize office about the edges of the glass and you get there's the potential to get dragged down at the site I like to use the names on a slightly different names all for this Marshall TV we've heard about TV the intellectual side of Korea we've heard about the emotional side of care we've heard about the caring the form a relationship with people but being nor so all we've heard about and the inspirational saint and the way that we can all inspire others we see what you can do in the classroom you've seen what you can do and reports and we've seen that you know the true representation of the Torah can't be distorted in any way I want to take you to the other side be a practical example right where I'm gonna hate to the other side is the flip side if the what goes on behind the scenes so we were talking about Guinness before I'll give an example of a chavatal and I was involved in 20-plus years ago right taking a bunch of university students from the UK mainland over to Dublin great we're gonna do a Shabet on it's a very traditional care of Chabot on there's gonna be Shabbos meals there's going to be singing there's gonna be Shirin but if you're gonna spend Friday afternoon in Dublin what are you going to take watching University students to you take them to the Guinness brewery right you take my the Guinness brewery began a tour and at the end they all get their 2/3 half pints of Guinness which is green some of them really enjoy it some of them don't quickly enjoy it those that enjoy it drank those we have fines from those that didn't play for they enjoy it brilliant discreet it was lovely Chabot on there was only one technical hitch if you're going to take a bunch of students to the Guinness brewery on a Friday afternoon the first habit all don't arrange boom post the talent is afraid make dinner it doesn't go follow no I sneezed white looks because if everyone goes and eats with local families having today in the afternoon in the park doesn't go well and it doesn't give you the opportunity for curve so what needs to happen of curve is we need to think and we need to look behind the scenes Rochelle talked I think those for sure might be relayed to us actually he mentioned a little bit about this week's part Rock I mentioned this briefly last year I'm only going to touch on it just now most Lavigne is gonna hand over the leadership he's gonna handle for the leadership she um cheers to us before he hands over the leadership he has a pillar he has a prayer and he asked sin he asked the shame what he's looking for and he asks the shame you don't Michele shame anymore we've caught a share of the care of course we call the Tsar Aisha later to appoint a man on the on the congregation but what are the qualities the man's gonna have I show you if me and I'll show you of olive me him well sure you see em well show you via lost yet others are Shane Kazan share in the hemorrhoid he's looking for someone who's going to be able to go out before them and comment before them who's going to be able to take them out and he's going to be able to bring them in and they shouldn't be the congregation shouldn't be a congregation without a shepherd it's obvious right if you're gonna go maybe as always if you is the person who's gonna go out before then the same person is gonna lead them out isn't the person's gonna come in before them person who's gonna bring them in or necessarily their different qualities of molesky is a beautiful explanation he explains think quoting resource wanta and these ones quoting the mission of the end of sorter Mishna says but it was Masuka Pinilla dark near caliph for in the footsteps of mushiya the leaders of the and the faces of the january if they're getting the faces of the dog what's going on but most of us having the dogs most was probably haven't got dogs we all know people have got dogs you seen people take a dog for a walk someone takes a dog for a walk Wow who's the dogs running in front right in the car says well are you pulling on the lead who's who's leading her the dog right except the dog gets the coroner he stops waits for the master to get gettin named tell look at this iteration we're going with turning left for trying right across the road wherever happens to be so even the people are in front the dogs have fun it's always looking behind the leader right you think it looks like the do some fun today we live in a world which is you know democracy is the ideal but anyone who's awake that is constantly looking behind to the electorate are they really the leader are they just the elected figurehead who's leading no yeah yeah I want to bring here more than that is there's two different facets to leadership right there some are talking about someone who's not only going to be able to go out in front but they're going to be able to bring the people with there's the has be significant debate in sort of business literature no leadership and management right our leadership and management once one thing the same thing are they two different things leader is this the guy is the stereotype vision Impressionists leader is give vision to give a sense of purpose to give a sense of direction and the managers of the people who implement that but it's not really true because anyone is a successful leader has management skills and anyone is a successful manager also has leadership skills and you need to have both and if you're right the airin if you're working in queues and the fact to if you're doing anything in curious you could be a regular classroom you can be running your own career organization you can be an overeater out by a community rather you're a leader you're a community leader whatever you're doing you're already in a position of responsibility you think you're and I'm already in a classroom you're way out there you're in out of time faster interface already you're one of the Ruby in the time because you're already in the classroom people look to you in a lot but not leadership role but in order to bring people with you you need to have this synthesis not just to being the leader but the management skills that are going to accompany that and if people go and people working Caravan they thinking here and you're always thinking the the vision and the vision is very important we'll come back back in a minute and but you're never thinking of what's going to go behind it you're never gonna fully achieve was potential I'll give you a path for example of that and it was the first source we see of curve in the door it's off mabini odd Lavina is sitting in his tent he's sitting at the gates of his team because the gates open on foresight so the people coming from all different directions are gonna be able to come and he's gonna be able to entertain them is built from carved onto a college bar through Russia is a very interesting roughly the beginning of our first video so a bourbon is sitting Pensacola is sitting at the the entrance to his tent bharat muh over a shelf BF from december better to see if there's someone going back and forth and to bring them into his house no one see firstly why is he sitting at the entrance to his face he wants to go and do half gnosis or food he wants to bring people in but you know the people who are neem who don't have food they'll come to him anyway he's known me know i've Medina's house to come to they'll come knock on the door and you'll invite them in so who's he waiting for he's keeping an eye out for so if someone's never had meat to go to someone for siddhartha charity right you're gonna make that frustating first approach is very difficult so they're often you know they walk past the door they think about it and they think that's why goofin off from the door and a bit nervous until something gets the habit or that the hang of it having to ask is a very difficult thing to do so I've not been in this situation but since people come to him we're gonna come to them he's looking out for the people who are walking past her actually says over for shower for the people who are going back and forth and haven't yet come to the door how difficult is it for someone who's not yet religious to walk into a yeshiva or to walk into a notary Center I used to work in jail II a month and jellies there are some EF branch in London and you have seen it but when you come to the doors walking through the glass doors and the first thing you've got is these flight of stairs going up stairs and if you've never walked in there before but the number of people spoke to the idiot like they feel like it's intimidating why should it be intimidating but the answer is it shouldn't be intimidating because we've got to keep an idea and I earned for unknowing all of our goal is caravan outreach here's a practical implementation of it it's got to be made as welcoming as possible you've got to go out of your way so that the people who do go back and forward and think shall I go in there shall I walk up the stairs why do so many cute groups one as it's so important that so many care of groups come or Samia and come to achieve us here or elsewhere might become they system they learn for two days for three days some of them come back and we learn you know an extended obtained a trip a three week trip but most of them are short-term trips they come in here for a few days why is that so important the answer is because if you've never set foot in a yeshiva before you've absolutely no idea what it's like whilst you're stereotyped image of you you see but you see how a non-religious person they're halfway thinking about a monastery ah so someone comes in it commonly walk through the door they see those normal people here that people here that they could be on campus with back in the university they sit and they get received intellectually stimulating Cox from the different robot namely see the the general vibe and the atmosphere around you completely break a stereotype and all of a sudden it becomes a very welcoming place and it can go into someone's head and they can think about you know what this is something I can think about I'm gonna come back to again in the future so a couple of points of our leadership eventually briefly vision or Schiller talks about the idea about the overall perspective seeing qalaat the difference between vision smear vision you've got the overall picture schmear you've got to be off course you've got some here individually but the visions got the the snapshot the overall perspective most vision I was I'm again couldn't that many years my first involvement cured was involved in youth movements youth movements in the UK which was but were not particularly and religious people movers but that a very strong Jewish identity it was a pull my hair then I guess this is poi the wrong audience but Roger McGough Roger McGough will and the Marisa second Liverpudlian put these poems published in the late 1960s there was a poem that was this I want to be the leader I want to be the leader can I be the leader can I can I promise promise you I can I'm the leader I'm the leader okay what should we do that's the poem right the next is very obvious right leader first thing you've got to have absolutely clear his direction you need to have a vision you need to know where you're wanting to get to know we see obviously Khomeini semester leadership from the Torah what Robina was Wow Israel but his leadership was vision driven right there was a neva it was an experience at the burning bush he had the he experienced a vision he was told he's going to go he's going to take the people out of slavery he's going to bring them to areas Mr Al and he's there was a challenge that was expressed to him but it was given as efficient at the end of his life there's another opportunity for coming up we will be coming out to miss him in the coming weeks as we go through say for deferring multi-beam is giving his speech to claudius rail and on the board is very stressful and he shares his vision with Policastro he shares his vision of how they're going to into the land he shares his vision of what's life going to be like in the land and he tells him of the challenges that they're going to have he shares the vision of how they're going to constantly be able to maintain a connection with the Torah there with him is for example of high-heel that they're always going to come back every seven years a year and connect choose the resolves freshen but he shares that vision they're always tied to this idea what they're trying to achieve so before you lead you need to have a vision I'll go back to what I talked about before with the paper Guinness right you have the vision you have the direction where you're going but if you want to be able to keep with the bubbles always going up you need to have the skills and you need to have the the behind-the-scenes the management skills the management thoughts and processes in place in order for you to be able to go and achieve what you're trying to do so one thing is to have a vision a safety thing is to set goals set specific goals for what you're trying to do with their activity and then you've got to think about okay so what I setting as a goal now and what am i doing and how is that going to affect how is that gonna implement for house what I'm doing going to be effective in the goals I'll give you a few practical examples resistant they're spending currently teachers injili a month and one of the pioneers of kirov right our legend ins of Africa the kirov he does is performing as we've heard today but forming relationships with people who he gives shearing regularly my what the purpose of the shiri if you ask him what's the purpose issue obviously the purpose is to teach Torah to share Torah to inspire people in Torah to let them learn someone but that's not his principal goal in teaching this year as far as he's concerned the shear is the Hickey temps up to get the Shabbos invite right because if people come to your shear and they start coming to that then you invite them for your sharpest meals and you develop a relationship with novels and that's when you can start getting having developing a relationship and building rules so if you're not gonna have the facility to have a follow-up this year why are you having this year give you another example of this if you're running late save eastern-european turn right there are many different organizations from the States Canada from Europe ago they come and tours they go to Poland they fear through Jewish heritage history and the positive side of Jewish life in Europe and then the events of the last century and it can be tremendously inspirational and moving tourists and they can have a tremendous impact on the individual why are you running that event yes you're running that event because you want to have the impact in the person yes you want to give them the educational content but at the same point it is the be-all and end-all going to be that one trip someone's going to come on a four-day trip and then they're going to go back and you're not gonna have contact with them no it's the same idea as the shear in the Shabbos view you're doing it so that you as an a carb as a rabbi or whatever role you are are able to develop a relationship of the people but you're then able to follow up in that relations it's going to grow over the current period of time and whether it's you or your team of staff who are on the event and that's the goal so you can have those relationships with afterwards now running an event cost money resources are limited how are you gonna decide what you're gonna do if you decide that's my goal and my goal is to be able to facilitate the relationships between the staff and the members of these students what do you do when you don't have staff to run the bed I can run the event I can get the students event we can do it but you know I've only got two staff to go on the event I'm not going to say in six Rabbani or six my trophy murder heart on the event to form a relationship to do the follow up if you can't send this after to the follow-up your events almost like move little it doesn't need to be there because you can't do what you're setting out to do so you need to think what's my goal how am I going to implement it to make sure you've got the ability to do the follow-up afterwards my wife used to run seminars and service in South America I can't remember the name of the role many many years ago and the East Iran cure seminars kershaw Burton evenly used to have easily hundreds of British burns there are some of the advisers of participants via via they had a Ishita in their career and they saw a statistical difference every single participant of the sabaton received a phone call within 48 hours right after the event everyone got ideally within 24 hours they familiar than 48 hours and they saw a statistical difference when people received calls and follow-up calls within a short period of time and even within a week right so that again comes back to your planning and how you're gonna do how are you gonna see that you're gonna use your management to coordinate the gate and T I've got this vision I've got this lofty goal I know what I want to achieve how are you actually gonna implement that same thing why'd you excuse me - any any Irish organization you know have you a database have you an ability of doing follow-up and maintaining connection with your students with your alumni because that so curious about it curious about forming relationships so that's one idea that leadership one other idea about leadership and care of really leadership is it's a sense of responsibility take on a role you have to feel a sense of responsibility you have to be proactive about us contrast the beginning of cifra gracious in the beginning surrender see Febreze and see fresh moose there's a tremendous contrast in that in the way that the incidents are happening the opening chapters of breakfast are failures of responsibility but applications of responsibility but a shame confront some of their sin right what does Adam see it's calm what does Kaabah see she blames mother father blames the serpent the the not harsh right kind says am I my brother's keeper no off writers in his own generation isn't his only right is no generation because he didn't go in the Caravelle is didn't go and warn everyone hanged so there's an abdication of responsibility and contrast to that you see in the beginning of schmoes Museveni takes responsibility when he sees - as well as vital to the nature of writing he intervenes in Midianites when he sees the shepherds they're preventing access they're abusing the dog granting access to the whales the daughters of Israel he intervenes right he's brought up as an Egyptian he could have avoided all these confrontations he takes responsibility Robert Levine mentioned deposit earlier he talks about multi-beam of growing up and cut in this is a lesson for each and every one of us via Heba um ahem the demotion the Yeats ever far VRC blossom the yard each midstream Martha is she free may 5 the offend Kovac or be our key in ish for Yahoo the mystery the Adnan aberthol so as in those days Moshe grew up he grew up monks and he went out amongst his brothers and he saw their civil sign he saw their their toil this is the no sir oh the Robert Levine was talking about and he started it he bought the set further in the closet he saw an Egyptian man hitting an each every from arms as brothers he turned this way and that he looked left or right he looked in he saw there was no one there watching and he hit the mid street the opponent before they buried her in the fall and afterwards apostle says v8 serial machine he goes out in the Nate's need to go in-camera meter starts him starting on his path becoming the different cars bro well share an idea I heard when I was learning as a buffer here way back remember she it was our spire but we've measured him as well and I don't know the mcore for this if anyone does please I'd love to know this who was ribboning what Robina was an issue free he knew he knew he was a Jewish boy knew that he grew up you know where is his parents are from he knew that but he was the Prince of Egypt he was brought up in Paris house right he was brought up with all the royalty right he was someone whose identity was completely and utterly confused because he had two very conflicting identities so what happens but he be on a ahem for youth demotion so Moshe grew up with this conflict going internally for yet silikov and what goes out he sees his brother as the intern and he sees a silver Sun he sees their toil for Yara each ministry Marchetti every my father he sees the Egyptian hatching the the is brother Jude but you're fed cough a cough and he turns this way and that not left and right to look to see if anyone is watching internally he looks internally and he sees himself a my motion livery or a mine Lucia Prince of Egypt Who am I the ark he ain't ish and he saw that when he had this conflict there was no person for Yahoo Tom it's three Viet Minh avocado he smoked the mystery within him any buried in the sand and then he went forward he took was possibility to go and become a leader for Cairo so as we close the seminar that's gonna be Marv even a couple of minutes you've heard you've made a large number of the Rabbani who teach in our lagoa we've hopefully shared some ideas and insights into cubes intellectual emotional hopefully a few practical ideas to not just know as well if you have any questions I'm around after Mario and my contact informations and all the bits of paper at the back please be in contact and the program has been going more than 30 years we've hundreds of alumni filling meaningful positions in more than 30 countries across the world we're currently recruiting for the next year if you're interested please take the opportunity whether you come and join us or not or whether you continue on your own journeys in midstream you should all continue to grow and grow to maximize your potential and also being the car of others to approach Barca thank you [Music] you