How to be an Effective and Perfect Leader:

Lessons from Famous Leadership Authors

Presented by: Lloyd Celeste www.yourlifesinspiration.com

Leadership FAQs?

Who are capable to be a leader?

Is it possible to lead even if you are an ordinary person?

What are the qualities of a leader?

Am I qualified to be a leader?

How I Rank Myself In Qualities Of Being A Leader

I definitely have this

I’m pretty good at this

I need to work on this

I need help in how to do this

Enthusiasm

Prepared:

Communicate well effectively

Caring

Creativity

Problem-solver

Character

Adaptability

Dependability

Cooperation

What is leadership?

“Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.”

- Bernard Montgomery -

British Field Marshal

Five Principles of Leadership

Leaders are Servant Leaders works inside-out Leaders are opportunity-minded Leaders do the right things first Leaders are win/win oriented person

Leaders are Servant

Leadership is serving other people

“A servant-leader’s primary

motivation and purpose is to

encourage greatness in others,

while organizational success is the indirect,

derived outcome of servant-leadership.”

- Robert Greenleaf -

Leaders works inside-outA good leader is someone who

works inside- out, not outside-in.

Make a change within you, to change the world.

A leader works as if they are not required to do so but are

inspired to do so.

Leaders are opportunity-minded

“It is a mistake for a man to think

that he must be rich to help others."

J. D. Rockefeller

Don’t wait for other people to tell you what you should do, do it.

Leaders do the right things firstWarren Bennis

The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, “ Wrong jungle”.

Leaders are win/win oriented person

Win-win implies that there is enough room for everybody.

It's not your way, or my way, but it's a better way, a higher way.

- Stephen Covey-

Everybody happy!

Effectiveness is the balance of this two: P/PC

P/PC –production and production capability

Illustration:

Aesop’s fable story of the

goose and the golden egg.

Habits of Effective Leaders

ProactiveEffective Communication skillResponsibleForesightEmphatic ListenerCommittedTrainable

Sources: 7 Habits of Highly effective People

Servant Leadership

The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

Do you often say these things to yourself, friends or parents?

“I can do nothing about it”

“He makes me so mad”, “I am not responsible”

“I can’t do that”, “If only I have this and that…

“I have nothing, “I have no talent

“I have no money, “I have no friends who can support me

“I’m not good enough to do that job.”

“I’m not attractive enough to get that girl to date me.”

“I’m too shy”, “I always fail at that.”

”My father was right. I’ll never amount to much.”

Proactive

Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

Things which you have no controlEx. Weather, national debt

Things which you have direct controlEx. Happiness, behavior

The story of Moses and 12 Spies

Lesson from Book of Numbers 13

Caleb –Proactive

11 Spies- Reactive (Grasshoppers)

Proactive- the initiative and the responsibility to make things happen.

They find ways to do it. Circle of Influence

Reactive- affected by environment, they blame others for their misfortune

Being a proactive servant-leaders, you can be part of the solution, not part of the problem.

The servant-leader can conceive solutions to problems that do not currently exist

(Greenleaf, 1970, pp. 23-25).

Greenleaf defined this as healing

as “to make whole” (1970, p. 27).

Activity: Listen to your language and to other people. How often do you use and hear reactive phrases such as “if only, I can’t, or I have to?

Effective Communication skill

“Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate effectively.”

President Gerald Ford

The effective servant-leader builds group consensus through “gentle but clear and persistent persuasion, and does not exert group compliance through position power.

Servant-leadership utilizes personal, rather

than position power, to influence

Followers and achieve organizational

objectives.

Influential People

You can influence people if you have the charisma.

“How can you have charisma?

Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are making them feel good about you.”

-Dan Reiland, Vice President of Leadership Development, INJOY

“It is not what to say that matters, but how you say it.”

ResponsibleWith great power as strong as

leadership come great responsibilities.

What will you do if you are given a

chance to be a millionaire for one day?

Your actions should speak to your

ideals, integrity and character.

As a leader you are Stewards of your men.

Organizational stewards, or ‘trustees’ are concerned not only for the individual followers within the organization, but also the organization as a whole, and its impact on and relationship with all of society (Greenleaf, 1970, p. 31).

ForesightForesight – “Prescience, or foresight, is a better than average

guess about what is going to happen when in the future” (Greenleaf, 1970, p. 16).

Visionary

“ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”

GOALS

Set a plan for your team- long term plan, and make sure its SMART

Know how to prioritize- what is urgent and important

Illustration: Rocks and stone in a jar

College Graduate

Businessman Millionaire Death

21 25 30 70

Emphatic ListenerEmpathy – The ability to mentally project one’s

own consciousness into that of another individual.

Listening – A critical communication tool, necessary for accurate communication and for actively demonstrating respect for others.

Emphatic Listening – listening with intent to understand (S. Covey)

“ you see the world the way the see the world”

“putting yourself into the situations of other people”

Emphatic Listening – is the key to making deposits in Emotional Bank Account (EBA)

“SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD”

“The servant always accepts and empathizes, never rejects” (1970, p. 12), and “Men grow taller when those who lead them empathize, and when they are accepted for who they are…” (1970, p. 14).

According to Greenleaf, “Only a true natural servant automatically responds to any problem by listening first” (1970, p. 10)

-Robert Greenleaf

Activity: Appreciative Inquiry

Committed

Commitment to the growth of people – A demonstrated appreciation and encouragement of others. Per Greenleaf, “The secret of institution building is to be able to weld a team of such people by lifting them up to grow taller than they would otherwise be” (1970, p. 14).

True Leaders do not think , “If I train my people to be better, they might turn out to

be better than I am.

“Leaders enables others to act not by hoarding the power they have but by giving it away” Russell (2001),

Do you want to lead people?

Inspire them!

Trainable

Empty yourself, and you will be filled with knowledge.

“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.” Aristotle

Illustration:

Cup of water

Five Principles of Leadership

Leaders are Servant

Leaders works inside-out

Leaders are opportunity-minded

Leaders do the right things first

Leaders are a win/win oriented person

To be a leader is to be PERFECT

and effective person.

Be the change you want to see in the world .

Mahatma Gandhi

Take the lead, NOW!

Sources : 7 Habits of Highly effective People - Stephen Covey Servant Leadership – Robert Greenleaf

The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader- John Maxwell

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