From Virtuos to Virtual Leadership in Masonry

2. FROM VIRTUOS TO
VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP
By RW:. Ivan Boluarte, GSB
2012-14

3. WHAT'S LEADERSHIP?
It's a practical
skill which
involves the
ability of an
individual to
guide and lead
other
individuals,
teams or
organizations.

4. THE CONSTITUTIONS
THE MASONIC BELIEF
There is one God, the Father of
all men.
The Holy Bible is the Great Light
in Masonry, and the Rule and
Guide for faith and practice.
Man is immortal.
Character determines destiny.
Love of man is, next to love of
God, man’s first duty.
Prayer, communion of man with
God, is helpful.

5. LEADERSHIP IS CHARACTER
Character is not personality or
temperament.
What’s Character? The set of
classical human virtues:
fortitude, temperance,
prudence and justice, also
known as the Cardinal Virtues
Fortitude: to stay the course
and resist pressures of all kinds
Temperance: to subordinate
passion and fulfillment of
mission
Prudence: to make right
decisions
Justice: to give every individual
his due

6. VIRTUE
Virtue is a habit of the
mind, the will and the
heart, which allow us to
achieve personal
excellence and
effectiveness.
Leadership is intrinsically
linked to virtue.
Virtue creates trust.
Virtue enhances the
leader's capacity to act.

7. THE CONSTITUTIONS
THE MASONIC TEACHING
Masonry teaches man to practice
charity and benevolence, to
protect chastity, to respect the
ties of blood and friendship, to
adopt the principles and revere
the ordinances of religion, to
assist the feeble, guide the blind,
raise up the downtrodden,
shelter the orphan, guard the
altar, support the Government,
inculcate morality, promote
learning, love man, fear God,
implore His mercy and hope for
happiness and immortality.

8. THE RITUAL
BROTHERLY LOVE
RELIEF
TRUTH

9. VIRTUOS LEADERSHIP
TENETS
(THEOLOGICAL + CARDINAL)
CHARACTER
LEADER
(CHARISMA + MAGNANIMITY + HUMILITY)
SERVANT OF THE
CRAFT

10. DEFINITIONS
CHARISMA: a spiritual power
or personal quality that gives
an individual influence or
authority over large numbers
of people.
MAGNANIMITY: the habit of
striving for great things.
Leaders are magnanimous in
their dreams, visions and sense
of mission.
HUMILITY: the habit of serving
others. Pulling no
pushing. teaching no ordering.
Inspiring no berating.

11. LEADERSHIP
It is not a gift which we are
endowed at birth.
We acquire it in the course of
time often after many setbacks,
failures and disappointments.
It's to see the destination,
begin the journey and leave it
to those who will continue it.
It demands:
Strength to take a risk
Humility to admit when a risk
fails.

14. GRAND MASTER’S SUGGESTIONS

15. • KEEP IN CONTACT WITH
BROTHERS (VIA SKYPE,
HANGOUTS, ZOOM, DUO, ETC)
• BRO:. SECRETARIES SHOULD
INFORM VIA OLP ABOUT
SICKNESS AND DISTRESS
• EXCHANGE DIGITAL BOOKS
• HOLD A LODGE MEETING (NO
OPENING AND CLOSING)
• LECTURES
• VISIT MASONIC LIBRARY
(LODGE FILES AND YOU TUBE
CHANNEL)

16. FEAR
• ANXIETY (stress induced
hormones: adrenaline,
nor-adrenaline and
cortisol)
• ANXIETY increases the
risk of cardiovascular
disease, digestive
problems, clinical
depression and weak
immune response to a
viral infection

17. OLDER BROTHERS
• DON’T FEEL
CONFIDENT WITH
TECHNOLOGY
• NO BROADBAND
CONNECTION
• SOCIAL ISOLATION
(lack of social contact)
• LONELINESS (sense of
being left out and
ignored)

18. FROM VIRTUOS TO
VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP
Part II
By RW:. Ivan Boluarte, GSB
2012-14

19. CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIA

20. SHIFT OUR
MINDSET

21. VIRTUAL LEADERSHIP
• BROTHERHOOD
COMMUNICATION
• BROTHERHOOD
TRACING
• BROTHERHOOD
INSTRUCTION

22. BROTHERHOOD COMMUNICATION

23. BROTHERHOOD TRACING
• PUT IN JAIL THE
VIRUS
• EARLY DETECTION
• EARLY RESPONSE
• MORI AND OLP WILL
BE OUR CENTRALIZED
DATABASE SYSTEM
• IT WORKS AS PEER TO
PEER SYSTEM

24. BROTHERHOOD INSTRUCTION
• KEEP LODGE MEETING
SCHEDULES
• KEEP COGNITIVE
HEALTH:
– THINK
– LEARN
– REMEMBER
• LECTURES:
– QUESTIONS COME FIRST
– TRIAL AND ERROR
– PRACTICE REFLECTION

25. MASONIC FORMULA
OPTIMISM + ACTION=
PURPOSE
NO OPTIMISM + ACTION=
NO PURPOSE
OPTIMISM + NO ACTION=
ATTITUDE

26. THANK YOU!