The Qualities of Skillful Leadership by Jim Rohn

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great challenge of life.

What’s important in leadership is refining your skills. All great leaders keep working on themselves until they become effective. Here are some specifics:

Learn to be strong but not rude. It is an extra step you must take to become a powerful, capable leader with a wide range of reach. Some people mistake rudeness for strength. It’s not even a good substitute.

Learn to be kind but not weak. We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn’t weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength. We must be kind enough to tell somebody the truth. We must be kind enough and considerate enough to lay it on the line. We must be kind enough to tell it like it is and not deal in delusion.

Learn to be bold but not a bully. It takes boldness to win the day. To build your influence, you’ve got to walk in front of your group. You’ve got to be willing to take the first arrow, tackle the first problem, discover the first sign of trouble.

You’ve got to learn to be humble, but not timid. You can’t get to the high life by being timid. Some people mistake timidity for humility. Humility is almost a God-like word. A sense of awe. A sense of wonder. An awareness of the human soul and spirit. An understanding that there is something unique about the human drama versus the rest of life. Humility is a grasp of the distance between us and the stars, yet having the feeling that we’re part of the stars. So humility is a virtue; but timidity is a disease. Timidity is an affliction. It can be cured, but it is a problem.

Be proud but not arrogant. It takes pride to win the day. It takes pride to build your ambition. It takes pride in community. It takes pride in cause, in accomplishment. But the key to becoming a good leader is being proud without being arrogant. In fact I believe the worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. It’s when you don’t know that you don’t know. Now that kind of arrogance is intolerable. If someone is smart and arrogant, we can tolerate that. But if someone is ignorant and arrogant, that’s just too much to take

Develop humor without folly. That’s important for a leader. In leadership, we learn that it’s okay to be witty, but not silly. It’s okay to be fun, but not foolish.

Lastly, deal in realities. Deal in truth. Save yourself the agony. Just accept life like it is. Life is unique. Some people call it tragic, but I’d like to think it’s unique. The whole drama of life is unique. It’s fascinating. And I’ve found that the skills that work well for one leader may not work at all for another. But the fundamental skills of leadership can be adapted to work well for just about everyone: at work, in the community, and at home.

Developing the Leader Within You™ Workshop by Dr. John C. Maxwell

Acquire the behaviors of successful leadership.

March 2009

We invite you to discover for yourself the many benefits of attending the Developing the Leader Within You™ Workshop, a leadership program designed by best-selling author and leadership guru, Dr. John C. Maxwell.

This will be facilitated by Francis J. Kong, Inspire's Director and one of the country's sought-after inspirational speaker. Francis has been getting rave reviews for his facilitating this workshop:

"The best leadership program I've ever attended. The nuggets of wisdom Francis Kong imparted are priceless and extremely valuable for my personal and professional growth. Every leader should attend this. Will definitely move our country forward." ~Eva Barrett, United Laboratories, Inc.

"Very inspiring speaker; makes me want to go out, live my life and be the best leader I could ever be!" ~Patricia Perlas, Total (Phil.) Corp.

This March, we're glad to announce that Francis Kong will share with you how you can bring positive change through personal integrity and self-discipline. Don't miss the Developing the Leader Within You™ Workshop with Francis J. Kong on March 17 and 18, 2009 at the EDSA Shangri-La, Mandaluyong City.

We hope that you can take advantage of this offering and learn how you can gain influence in your professional and personal lives.

Francis and I look forward to seeing you there.

Sincerely,

Alex L. Araneta

CEO

Inspire Leadership Consultancy, Inc.

INSP!RE Leadership Consultancy presents The 40th DEVELOPING THE LEADER WITHIN YOU™ Workshop March 17 and 18, 2009 EDSA Shangri-La, Mandaluyong City 8:30AM - 5:00PM with Francis J. Kong Designed by Dr. John C. Maxwell, author of more than 30 books with more than 7 million copies sold, including New York Times and Business Week No. 1 best-seller, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, with more than 1 million copies sold and Developing the Leader Within You! Rave Reviews "Developing the Leader Within You presents a very balanced view of the vast and challenging leadership role and how to successfully pursue on becoming a great leader. It is a must for leaders at all levels in an organization who want to develop influence on others." ~Deng Kibanoff, PLDT "The seminar opened my mind to new realities; changed the way I look at myself, my boss, my colleagues, and other people around me. I'm a thrifty person but I'd pay for this kind of workshop!" ~Lyndsey de Villa, Smart Communications, Inc. "Highly recommended for top management - putting into practice the learnings from this seminar can bring about the much needed change that can spell success for a company." ~Geronimo Diaz, Banco de Oro "Excellent program, especially for us who were given new leadership roles in the company." ~DJ Javier, Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp. Program Outline (All sessions are highly interactive and are designed to draw out insights, personal realizations, and feedback from the participants.) Day 1 Developing the Leader Within You: The Foundations of Leadership Opening Discussion: The Difference between a Leader and a Manager Session 1. The Law of Influence Session 2. Introduction to the Five Levels of Leadership Session 3. Uncovering your Level of Leadership Session 4. The Law of Connection Session 5. Leading with Integrity Session 6. Values-based Leadership Day 2 Session 7. The Law of Priorities Session 8. Becoming a Focused Leader Session 9. The Quickest Way to Gain Leadership Session 10. The 5-Step Equipping Process Session 11. Motivating the Unmotivated Session 12. The Law of Navigation After the Workshop Validate Leadership Action Plan with management		About your FACILITATOR The bestselling author of Only the Real Matters and 9 other books, FRANCIS J. KONG is a much sought-after inspirational speaker who has been featured in more than 1,500 major conventions both here and abroad. He also holds the distinction of speaking together with John Maxwell in the country's largest single learning event held at the Araneta Coliseum, in front of 14,000 leaders in September 2004. You can hear him in his daily Radio Program Business Matters which was given a Year 2007 special citation by the Catholic Mass Media Awards. You can read him through his Saturday and Sunday column of the Business Page of The Philippine Star. You can see him as he regularly guests every Thursday morning at ABS-CBN's popular morning show Umagang Kay Ganda. Francis has been trained and licensed by Maximum Impact of Atlanta, Georgia to do Maxwell's leadership programs

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