7 Awesome Leadership Power Generators!
7 Awe-Inspiring Leadership Power-Generating Strategies!
Here’s a really simple way you can use your personal
infrastructure to increase your leadership power, create new
innovative solutions and nurture your growth opportunities.
Failing to invest in your power-producing abilities will
definitely prevent you from realizing success on the job and
rob your future career efforts of enjoyment.
This article will show you 7 self-empowering ways to
transform your ordinary power-deficits into:
=> Power-packed acts
=> Powered-up impacts
=> Power-generating results
Employing these time-tested strategies will boost your
influence, improve your effectiveness and energize your
leadership talents.
Empowering Strategy-1 - Envision Your Significance!
Every person has the potential to make a difference in this
world. Look at how your life interacts with others and
offers them opportunities to discover, contribute or create
=> meanings,
=> impacts,
=> solutions.
See yourself taking positive actions, making meaningful
contributions and shaping creative solutions. To succeed, be
someone who searches for and empowers meanings, impacts or
solutions to enrich our work, lives and situations.
Empowering Strategy-2 - Model Success!
The first rule of investment is: “Invest in yourself first!”
History is the stories of leaders, role models and movers
and shakers. Why try to re-invent the wheel, when there are
thousands of successes already available to you?
Stop reading this article and run to your bookshelf or
library and find the life story of the person you consider
to be the greatest leader of all time.
Still here? - don’t come back until you have that book in
your possession.
OK, now start reading, studying and applying the principles
that that person used to reach their pinnacle of success.
Empowering Strategy-3 - Be Eager to Learn New Things!
Well, let’s see - there are many ways to acquire new
knowledge, uncover hidden truths and find wisdom:
=> books, magazines, articles and papers, training courses
and programs, discussion groups, media outlets, stories and
plays, dreams and meditations, fasting ad prayers. Diaries and journals
=> Mind-maps or doodling
=> Audio or video-taping
Empowering Strategy-5 - Harmonize Your Mind!
Meeting with people who wish to share their ideas,
objectives and visions with you in a spirit of perfect
cooperation and harmony increases your success to Warp-speed
factor-10!
You probably already have seen how other legendary leaders
have used this Master Mind concept to great benefit - just
look at the role played and power exerted by the alliances
your leader participated in.
Your Master Mind may include people you usually do not
associate with - like other professionals, entrepreneurs and
leaders - almost certainly, your everyday colleagues,
friends or family members will not want to join your group.
Empowering Strategy-6 - Energize Your Faith!
Faith is simply a matter of adding something of substance to
your hopes and then using the eyes of your mind to see
evidence of those things even though they are not yet there.
What do you hope for? To energize your faith, you must first
put some substance into your hope.
Let’s say you are hoping for a better job. What substantial
efforts are you investing into that hope?
=> Have you re-written or prettied-up your CV/Resume?
=> Are you consulting with Search counselors or experts?
=> Do you know which jobs or industries you want to work in?
Empowering Strategy-7 - Be Willing to Serve!
Greed, selfishness and closed-mindedness block the flow of
power every time - these negative attitudes compel us to
pull back from connecting with and enjoying sources of
power.
Power is a two-way exchange, we give it away and take
advantage of it. Jesus observed that the “greatest among you
[human beings] shall be servant of all.”
History’s greatest and most beloved leaders have all been
servants to their cultures, nations and to our world.
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Leadership skills training & development for creating energy!
We boost our own power when we serve the needs of others, so
by giving away the power of our time, abilities and gifts,
we increase our own power-supply.
May the Lord God always bless those who make the effort to
bless others first and foremost - that’s my prayer for you.
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Leadership Leaders Must Create, Duplicate And Propagate Other Leaders
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
- Dwight Eisenhower
Without fail, a true leader’s effectiveness can only be confirmed when they are able to cultivate other leaders from ones team.
A truly gifted leader directs ones team down the path of success through a vision; an even better leader puts forth great lessons for his people to benefit from later as they are achieving their goals; while, the best leaders produce other leaders from within, in addition to all of the qualities above mentioned.
The effectiveness of a leader depends on their ability to create other leaders, and a true leader is never selfish. They share their experiences, convey and pass on their knowledge and teach others well. They do all these things without asking for anything in returnbecause they know that what they receive in return are the treasures that are worth their time and the necessary sacrifice.
But alas, there are many leaders who see their people as opponents - that when the team members become better, or evolve, they will become better than, or outdo, the leader themselves. This is a mistaken belief of some leaders and is a big reason why they don’t go as far in the area of producing more leaders.
Basically, what should be observed in this scenario is that the team members are cooperators, not competitors. In fact, these people who are potential future leaders, help lighten and carry the load. They efficiently reduce the encumbrances of the present leader. And with such vast and vital responsibilities, a leader tends to divide the duties among his people - giving the more difficult ones to those he deeply trusts and thinks will handle them appropriately. So it goeswith prospective future leaders at hand, one is guaranteed that these tasks are being completed according to the team’s agenda and benefit structure.
Furthermore, a leader who produces other leaders exponentially multiplies his or her influence, crafting a system that other people follow and believe in wholeheartedly and enthusiastically. Their organization will continue to build, grow and thrive, as there are other devotees who assist him to prosperity.
My friends, if you are a leader, you cannot and should not attempt to do everything by yourself. You need confidants, colleagues and compatriots. If you really want to be a successful leader, you must cultivate other leaders around you. It is imperative that you form and establish a team that has a vision similar to yours, acts and reacts the same way you do and believes that you can rise to the top. A true leader always sees the big picture, but needs other leaders to help turn his or her mental picture into reality.
Typical leaders only aspire to have more and more disciples around them. They truly believe that the key to leadership is acquiring more followers that they can order around. Few leaders surround themselves with other leaders that they can ask of and utilize their invaluable assistance. Coincidentally, these leaders are the true and effective ones, the ones that go down in infamy. Here’s to leadership!
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Tags: abilities, development, effectiveness, knowledge., leaders, success, teamworkWhat Type Of Leader You Are - Present & Future - Depends On Where You Stand
THAT UPON WHICH I STAND
MANY STAND
MOST IN WEIGHTLESSNESS
OR SHIFTING FOUNDATION
OF SWIRLING SAND.
THESE LOST SOULS
DRIFT UPON VARIOUS WINDS OF POPULARITY
YET ARE OF ONE ACCORD
IN THEIR FORLORN HOPE.
I AM A MAN
STANDING ON THE CORNERSTONE
OF THE SON OF MAN.
IT NEVER SHIFTS,
NOR WILL I FROM IT.
FOR IT IS NOT POPULAR CONFORMITY
WHICH I SEEK
ONLY THAT,
UPON WHICH I STAND.
-By S. Bryant Lewis
Where you go and how far you will go depends on your vantage point. What I mean by that is that where you stand in life determines what you see around you. And what you see around you determines your reality.
In the poem, “That Upon Which I Stand,” I speak of weightlessness and shifting foundations of sand. A person’s personal foundation in life can be weightless and shifting. How? Well, if one’s character is made up of a little deceit, mistruth from time to time, poor work ethics, cheating every once and a while, etc. - then their foundation is built on something that shifts. Their foundation is not solid. When the storms in life come, they have a difficult time standing up.
The term “lost souls” refers to people who are always searching for the answers to success, but from their vantage point they can only see the swirling desert sands. They have, for many reasons, found serving the Lord undesirable. They are lost souls and many of them do not know how lost they really are. All they know is that they can not see success from where they stand. And when they do see success, often times it is only a mirage. This erodes away their hopes and dreams.
The second verse, also, deals with the people who drift or are blown about because they are always floating around on winds of popularity. What I mean is that they make their decisions bases on what is popular, rather than what is the right thing to do. Those who make their life’s decisions in this fashion are one great big unhappy brotherhood or sisterhood. This is a hopeless state to be in. Why? Because the decisions they mare are not based on a crucial moral principle. That principle is consistently choosing right over wrong.
This leads me to the third verse. If you choose to stand on a moral foundation - you can see success. Success is not lost in a sand storm or part of a mirage. God can help you see success. When he does, it is something you can clearly visualize in your mind. Once you can visualize success, you can do what is necessary to bring it about. In the book of Joshua, in the 24th chapter, we see that Joshua and his family have a choice as to where they will stand. This was not a one time choice or a temporary rest stop in life. Joshua was determined to stand on a moral foundation given by God. God’s foundation does not shift. It is not affected by life’s storms, but will help you ride those storms out.
We should not be lead adrift by the winds of popularity. We need to remain loyal to truths in God’s word, instead of trying to find acceptance in the eyes of others. Men and women need to be leaders in not only their jobs, but their homes as well. By becoming leaders, who are consistently choosing to stand on God’s principles - people are less likely to be blown away by the winds of popularity. Like Joshua, we need only stand and say, “but as for me and my house - we shall serve the Lord and build our house on his foundation.
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Coach Stan Lewis is a Christian Life & Leadership coach. He is happily married to the ultimate lady and love of his life - Barb. He has two children. He is a former Naval Officer & has developed and trained leaders for 18 yrs. He has worked in the Royal Ranger ministry for 20 yrs. He has a passion for training, ministering to, and developing leaders.
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