LEADERS and LEADERSHIP

• LEADERS


  Helps/facilitates communities of people, takes risks, and envisions a better future for his/her group, encourages commitment, and helps people move ahead along a path to accomplish a goal
• LEADERSHIP


  • The art of influencing people to get the necessary support and cooperation in community affairs and to maintain solidarity among people
  • Ability to influence others towards desired goals
  • "doing the right things"
  • Position a leader; quality displayed by a leader; the act of leading
• VIRTUES AS THE FOUNDATION OF LEADERSHIP

  • Prudence
  • Justice
  • Fortitude
  • Temperance
  • Industry
  • Loyalty
  • Responsibility
  • Cheerfulness
  • Generosity
  • Magnanimity
• Prudence


  Knowing the right thing to do and applying it
• Justice


  Giving each one his/her due with constant and perpetual will
• Fortitude


  Overcoming the difficulties and pressures of life in pursuit of goodness
• Temperance


  Bringing desires and natural inclinations of man under the control of reason
• Industry


  Working hard and working under pressure
• Loyalty


  Remaining true to your friends and to your principles in times of difficulty
• Responsibility


  Being accountable for one's actions, duties, and obligations; readiness to answer for the consequences of one's actions
• Cheerfulness


  Being optimistic
• Generosity


  Sharing the good that one has with other people
• Magnanimity


  Having great ideals and ambitions of doing good; being concerned with doing great deeds of service to others by devoting one's life to help one's country and people
• INDISPENSABLE QUALITIES OF A LEADER

  • Character
  • Charisma
  • Commitment
  • Communication
  • Competence
  • Courage
  • Discernment
  • Focus
  • Generosity
  • Initiative
  • Listening
  • Passion
  • Positive attitude
  • Problem solving
• Character


  • The quality of a person's behaviour, as revealed in his habits of thoughts and expressions, his attitudes and interests, his action and his personal philosophy of life
  • Character is more than talk
  • Talent is a gift, but character is a choice
  • Character brings lasting success with people
  • Leaders cannot rise above the limitations of their character
• Improving character


  1. Search for the cracks

  2. Look for patterns

  3. Face the music

  4. Rebuild
• Charisma


  An extraordinary power in a person, group, cause, etc which takes hold of popular imagination, wins popular support
• Improving charisma


  1. Change your focus

  2. Play the first impressions game

  3. Share yourself
• Commitment


  • Act of committing, the state of intellectual and emotional adherence to some political, social, religious theory or action especially the conscious linking of works of literature and art with such theory of action
  • Commitment starts in the heart
  • Commitment is tested by action
  • Commitment opens the door to achievement
• Improving commitment


  1. Measure it

  2. Know what's worth dying for
• Communication


  • Act of communicating
  • Something communicated
  • A means of sending a message, orders, etc
• Improving communication


  1. Simplify your message

  2. See the person

  3. Show the truth

  4. Seek a response

  5. Be clear as a bell

  6. Live your message
• Competence


  State of being competent
• Improving competence


  1. Show up everyday

  2. Keep improving

  3. Follow through with excellence

  4. Accomplish more than expected

  5. Inspire others

  6. Get your head in the game

  7. Redefine the standard

  8. Find three ways to improve
• Courage


  • The quality of the mind enables the person to face difficulty, danger, etc. without fear
  • Courage begins with an inward battle
  • Courage is making things right, not just smoothing them over
  • Courage in a leader inspires commitment from followers
  • Your life expands in proportion to your courage
• Improving courage


  1. Face the music

  2. Talk to that person

  3. Take a giant step
• Discernment


  • To perceive by the sight or the intellect
  • To distinguish mentally
• Improving discernment


  1. Discover the root issues

  2. Enhance your problem solving

  3. Evaluate tour options for maximum impact

  4. Multiply your opportunities

  5. Analyze past success

  6. Learn how others think

  7. Listen to your gut
• Focus


  A central point of attraction, attention or activity
• Improving focus


  1. 70% on strength

  2. 25% on new things

  3. 5% on areas of weaknesses

  4. Shift to strengths

  5. Staff your weaknesses

  6. Create an edge
• Generosity


  Giving freely
• Improving generosity


  1. Be grateful for whatever you have

  2. Put people first

  3. Don't allow the desire for possessions to control you

  4. Regard money as a resource

  5. Develop the habit of giving

  6. Give something away

  7. Put your money to work

  8. Find someone to mentor
• Initiative


  • An introductory act or step, readiness and the ability in initiating action, one personal, responsible decision
  • They know what they want
  • They push themselves to act
  • They take more risks
  • They make more mistakes
• Improving initiative


  1. Change your mind-set

  2. Don't wait for opportunity to knock

  3. Take the next step
• Listening


  Give attention for the purpose of hearing
• Improving listening


  1. Change your schedule

  2. Meet people on their turf

  3. Listen between the lines
• Passion


  • Any compelling emotion, strong amorous feeling, strong sexual desire, strong fondness or enthusiasm
  • Passion is the first step to achievement
  • Passion increases your willpower
  • Passion changes you
  • Passion makes the impossible possible
• Improving passion


  1. Take you temperature

  2. Return to your first love

  3. Associate with people of passion
• Positive attitude


  • If you believe you can, you can
  • Your attitude is a choice
  • Your attitude determines your actions
  • Your people are a mirror of your attitude
  • Maintaining a good attitude is easier than regaining one
• Improving positive attitude


  1. Feed yourself the right food

  2. Achieve a goal everyday

  3. Write it on your wall