Leadership lecture on Attitude. 06/08/14

2. Learning Outcomes:
• Understand the value of your attitude as a
leader
• Understand the significance of attitude for
personal growth

4. Reading:
Chapter 6
Developing the Leader Within You
John Maxwell

6. WHAT IS
attitude?
Attitudes are the established ways of
responding to people and situations that we
have learned, based on the beliefs, values and
assumptions we hold.
Attitudes become manifest through your
behaviour.

8. Keep your heart (attitude) with all
diligence, for out of it are all the issues
of life.
Proverbs 4:23

9. The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on
life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more
important than the past, the education, the money, than
circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other
people think or say or do. It is more important than
appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a
company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we
have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will
embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot
change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We
cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play
on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am
convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of
how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of
our attitudes.
– Charles Swindoll

10. Attitude:
• Is a habit
• Is highly valued
• Affects everything
• Is a choice

11. 1. Our
attitudes
are our most important
assets

12. Our attitude may not be the asset that
makes us great leaders, but without
good ones we will never reach our full
potential.
- John Maxwell

16. 2. It’s improbable that
a person with a
bad attitude
can continuously
be a success

17. 3. I am responsible
for my
attitudes

19. 4. It’s not
what happens to
me
that matters but
what happens in

20. The one thing you cannot take
away from me is the way I choose
to respond to what you do to me.
The last of one’s freedoms is to
choose one’s attitude in any given
circumstances.
-Viktor Frankl
(Nazi concentration camp survivor)

21. 5. The leader’s
attitude
helps determine the
attitudes of the followers

23. A leader’s
Attitude
is caught by his or her followers
more quickly than his or her
Actions