Discovering New Ideas About Inclusive Leadership

I am Paul Atsu, a youth leader, a thinker and communication expert in Ghana, Africa with a special focus on Agribusiness/ Agriculture. I began the Discover Your Inclusive Leadership Potential Online Course ready to learn from my fellow leaders.

My hope is that as we learn more from each other here, the impact will be to make a world a better place for our generation.

I believe the future is the Earth and the Earth is our future.

I am currently doing a masters programme in Agribusiness at the University of Ghana in Legon, Ghana. I am the CEO of IncubationTv that aims to be an information and knowledge sharing hub for sustainable agribusiness development in Africa. We promote youth in Ghana and other African Countries taking the lead to start up their own agribusinesses. What agriculture produces is driven by consumer demand. The composition of meals changes gradually as lifestyles change. Cereals are still by far the most important source of total food consumption: In developing countries the consumption of cereals 30 years ago represented 61% of total calories. It decreased to 56% nowadays, reflecting diet diversification and as more countries achieve higher levels of nutrition. It is expected that cereals will continue to supply more than 50% of the food consumed in the foreseeable future. A large proportion of cereals is produced for animal feed. Food production from the livestock sector includes meat (beef, pork, poultry, etc.), dairy production and eggs.

This Inclusive Leadership course is a discovery of new ideas about leadership within a wonderful learning process with practical information and questions, meditation, and journaling. The information and questions in this course develop our ability to stay aware of our emotions and manage our behavior, social awareness and relationship management skills. We are learning to more accurately perceive our own tendencies and develop the social competence to understand other people’s moods, behavior, and motives.

An example of practical information and questions is the module on networking, or the art showing up. For me, the art of showing up is basically going and learning a new things; information, knowledge, and ideas. Showing up in our roles of supporting and encouraging others who are looking up to us is a key to personal and global leadership development. For example, if a day goes by in which I do not post anything on my on my Social Media Page or Wall concerning agriculture or Agribusiness development, then someone who supports me may personally send me a message to find out what is happening to me. That message alone gives me more courage and hope that someone out there is learning and is inspired by my works and helps me know that I must be able to show up anytime. By networking with others and information sharing, we will all learn more about caring for the environment in ways that have sustainable impacts in our communities, the business world and the wider world.

Meditation is also part of this course and is such an important pillar in one’s life. Visualization, manifesting and seeing what is happening despite the stress of situations will always grow you as a leader to high altitudes. Once you know and accept your potential, then you will end up being a quality leader and change maker in your community, city and the world. For example, during Module 3, as I meditated on the Earth Charter, I discovered the difference the Earth makes by sharing the basics that everyone needs. In agriculture we are very aware that “you may not leave a full day without water or food.” and that the main source of food for the population of the world is agriculture.

The Discover Your Inclusive Leadership Potential course encourages participants to keep journals. The documentation process of journaling involves putting our thoughts and ideas together to develop good communication and listening skills. This maintains a high standard of discussions as we access the course Discussion Forum to read each others works. This directs us toward impactful ideas for creating sustainability on Earth for our generation. In my journaling and in the discussion forums have been thinking and writing about Inclusive Leadership in agriculture, agricultural irrigation, and livestock husbandry. As the population keeps increasing, more food and livestock feed need to be produced in the future and more water applied to this purpose to feed the world.

The course flexibility and positiveness reminds me to remind myself and my fellow leaders to trust ourselves. From this trust comes the basic of understanding how important and wonderful we each are in this Planet.

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Two ways to enroll in Discover Your Inclusive Leadership Potential Online Education:

  • Self Guided Version begins as soon as you register
  • Next Guided Group Expedition begins October 1, 2018