1. Welcome
John Doe

2. If It’s Lonely at the Top, You’re Not Doing Something Right
Loneliness is not a leadership or positional issue, it is a personality issue.
Avoid positional thinking.

3. The toughest person to lead is yourself
Only leaders who have followed well know how to lead others well.
Learn Followership

4. Defining Moments Define Your Leadership
Ground breakers
Heart breakers
Cloud breakers
Chart breakers
Ground breakers take you into an area you haven’t been before
Heart breakers are when you realize things are going very well
Cloud breakers let you soar like you’ve never soared before
Chart breakers take you beyond your expectations
Experience is no teacher unless you learn from it. Focus not on what happens to you but on what happens in you during the process of the experience.
At every defining moment, ask yourself one question:
What did you learn?

5. When You Get Kicked in the Rear, You Know You’re Out in Front
How to hold up against Criticism…

6. WHO ARE YOU Know YOURSELF Step One: who
Know Yourself – this is a reality issue. Know what you do well and what you don’t do well. Be prepared to be criticized – you cannot impart what you do not possess.
Know YOURSELF

7. Change YOURSELF Step Two:
Change Yourself – this is a responsibility issue. Leaders change first. Maintain the right attitude when criticized by not being defensive, looking for the grain of truth, making the necessary changes and taking the high road.
Change YOURSELF

8. Forget YOURSELF Step Three:
Forget Yourself – this is a security issue. Stop focusing on yourself. No one else is paying much attention to you. We all need grace and forgiveness
Forget YOURSELF

9. Never Work a Day In Your Life
Accomplish
Attempt
Meet
Feel
Motivate
Believe
Lead
Passion separates the extraordinary from the ordinary. Passion enables you to:
Believe things you would not have believed
Feel think you would not have felt
Attempt things you would not attempted
Accomplish things you would not have accomplished
Met people you would not have met
Motivate people you would not have motivated
Lead people you would not have led
Passion is the key to Potential

10. The Best Leaders Are Listeners
Listening is the best way to learn
Listening can keep problems from escalating
Listening can improve the organization

11. Get In the Zone and Stay There
Ask yourself, “What do you do well?”
Get specific
Find your strength zone

12. A Leader’s First Responsibility Is to:
According to Jack Welch, the CEO of all CEOS…
Six Rules for Leadership:
#1: Control your destiny; or someone else will
#2: Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were
#3: Be candid with everyone
#4: Don’t manage; lead
#5: Change before you have to
#6: If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete
Define Reality

13. To See How the Leader Is Doing
Are the people…
CHANGING
FOLLOWING
SUCCEEDING
GROWING
Q1 – all leaders have two common characteristics – first they are going somewhere and second, they are able to persuade people to follow
Q2 – Are the people willing to make a change for the sake of progress
Q3 – The best leaders help people with more than their jobs, they help with their lives
Q4 – Leadership is meant to lift others and help others succeed
Look at the People

14. Don’t Send Your Ducks to Eagle School
You will frustrate the EAGLES
You will frustrate the DUCKS
You will frustrate YOURSELF

15. Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing
80% of traffic jams
80% of beer consumed
80% of participation
80% of the time
80% of profits
20% of customers
20% of clothes worn
20% of students
20% of drinkers
20% of roads
The Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)

16. Keep Your Mind on the Main Thing
20% of activities
FOCUS ON 20%
16x
more
productive
than
remaining 80%!!!
The Pareto Principle (80/20 Rule)

17. Your Biggest Mistake is…
Not Asking What Mistake You’re Making
Give Permission to Push Back
Ask: “What Are We Missing?”
Admit Your Own Mistakes and Weaknesses
Accept Mistakes as the Price of Progress

18. Manage Your Life Don’t Manage Your Time
Time-Management is an oxymoron – you cannot manage time – you have no control over it
Manage Your Life

19. How to Judge if Something is Worth Your Time and Attention
Rate the importance of the task
Rate the urgency of the task
Multiply urgency by importance
See page of Leadership Gold Facilitator Guide for Calculation example.
Manage the tasks of your life and
you will make the most of your time

20. Keep Learning to Keep Leading
All great leaders invest themselves in a personal growth plan
Invest In Yourself First

21. Keep Learning to Keep Leading
To progress as a leader is to transition from being a person of answers to a person of lessons.
Be a Continual Learner

22. Leaders Distinguish Themselves During Tough Times
Leaders have to be willing to do things others are unwilling to do. They have to put themselves on the line.
The Tough Call Demands Risk

23. Leaders Distinguish Themselves During Tough Times
Difficult times faced by leaders begins within them, not with others.
Doing the right thing isn’t always easy, but it is necessary if a leader wants to maintain integrity and remain effective.
The Tough Call Brings With It an Inward Battle

24. People Quit People, Not Companies
People coming in – join a team

25. People Quit People, Not Companies
People leave because they feel devalued by their leader, the leader is untrustworthy, the leader is incompetent, the leader is insecure
People going out – leave a person

26. Experience Is Not the Best Teacher
Our attitude toward unplanned and unpleasant experiences determines our growth
Lack of experience is costly
Experience is also costly
Evaluated experience lifts a person above the crowd

27. The Secret to a Good Meeting Is the Meeting Before the Meeting
If you can’t have the pre meeting, don’t have the meeting
If the pre meeting is not good, don’t have the meeting
Gain Perspective
Increase Influence
Avoid Being Blindsided
Meetings usually fail because the leader doesn’t have a clear agenda and/or the attendees in the meeting have their own agenda.
Good planning always costs less than good reacting.

28. Be a Connector, Not Just a Climber
Think Horizontal
Focus on Relationships
Value Cooperation
Seek Partnerships
Build Consensus
Think Vertical
Focus on Position
Value Competition
Seek Power
Build Their Image
If you climb without connecting you may gain authority but you won’t have many friends
If you connect well but possess little desire to climb, you may end up with many friends but not much authority to accomplish anything
Climbing and Connecting are not an either/or but a both/and.

29. The Choices You Make, Make You
Standards for yourself will be higher than what others might set for you
Helping people is more important than making them happy
Your focus is on the present

30. Influence Should Be Loaned but Never Given
Influence exists to speak up for those who don’t have influence
Influence exists to speak to those who do have influence
Influence exists to be passed on to others

31. For Everything You Gain, You Give Up Something
spiritual work
SPIRITUAL WALK
first half
SECOND HALF
acceptable
addition
MULTIPLICATION
EXCELLENT
exploration
quantity of life
QUALITY OF LIFE
FOCUS
immediate pleasure
PERSONAL GROWTH
POTENTIAL
financial gain
security
SIGNIFICANCE
affirmation
ACCOMPLISHMENT
Ten Tradeoffs Worth Making

32. Those Who Start the Journey With You Seldom Finish With You
Gaining Perspective

33. Few Leaders Are Successful Unless a Lot of People Want Them to Be
Mentors draw you up to them
Supporters lift you up to a better you

34. You Only Get Answers to the Questions You Ask
Some people see questions as a sign of ignorance. Leaders see them as a sign of engagement, curiosity, and the desire to improve.

35. People Will Summarize You in One Sentence, Pick it Now
What will you leave behind?
Determine your legacy today

36. Thank You
John Doe