How to be an effective and perfect leader is a presentation which shares some of the most important traits of a leader based on the books and teachings of worlds most known leadership author like John Maxwell, Robert Greenleaf and Stephen Covey. Do you want to be a leader? Find out the Habits of Effective Leader.

1. How to be an Effective
and Perfect Leader:
Lessons from Famous Leadership
Authors
Presented by: Lloyd Celeste
www.yourlifesinspiration.com

2. Leadership FAQs?
Who are capable to be a leader?
Is it possible to lead even if you are
an ordinary person?
What are the qualities of a leader?
Am I qualified to be a leader?
How I Rank Myself In Qualities Of Being A Leader

3. I definitely
have this
I’m pretty
good at this
I need to
work on this
I need help
in how to do
this
Enthusiasm
Prepared:
Communicate
well effectively
Caring
Creativity
Problem-solver
Character
Adaptability
Dependability
Cooperation

4. What is leadership?
“Leadership is the capacity and
will to rally men and women to
a common purpose and the
character which inspires
confidence.”
- Bernard Montgomery -
British Field Marshal

5. Five Principles of Leadership
 Leaders are Servant
 Leaders works inside-out
 Leaders are opportunity-minded
 Leaders do the right things first
 Leaders are win/win oriented person

6. Leaders are Servant
Leadership is serving other people
“A servant-leader’s primary
motivation and purpose is to
encourage greatness in others,
while organizational success is the indirect,
derived outcome of servant-leadership.”
- Robert Greenleaf -

7. Leaders works inside-out
A good leader is someone who
works inside- out, not
outside-in.
Make a change within you, to
change the world.
A leader works as if they are
not required to do so but are
inspired to do so.

8. Leaders are opportunity-minded
“It is a mistake for a man to think
that he must be rich to help others."
J. D. Rockefeller
Don’t wait for other people to tell
you what you should do, do it.

9. Leaders do the right things first
Warren Bennis
The leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree,
surveys the entire situation, and yells, “ Wrong
jungle”.

10. Leaders are win/win oriented person
Win-win implies that there is enough room for everybody.
It's not your way, or my way, but it's a better way, a higher
way.
- Stephen Covey-
Everybody happy!

11. Effectiveness is the balance of this two: P/PC
P/PC –production and production capability
Illustration:
Aesop’s fable story of the
goose and the golden egg.
Habits of Effective Leaders

12. Proactive
Effective Communication skill
Responsible
Foresight
Emphatic Listener
Committed
Trainable
Sources: 7 Habits of Highly effective People
Servant Leadership
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader

13. Do you often say these things to
yourself, friends or parents?
“I can do nothing about it”
“He makes me so mad”, “I am not responsible”
“I can’t do that”, “If only I have this and that…
“I have nothing, “I have no talent
“I have no money, “I have no friends who can
support me
“I’m not good enough to do that job.”
“I’m not attractive enough to get that girl to date
me.”
“I’m too shy”, “I always fail at that.”
”My father was right. I’ll never amount to much.”

14. Proactive
Stephen Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Things which you have no
control
Ex. Weather, national debt
Things which you have direct
control
Ex. Happiness, behavior

15. The story of Moses and 12 Spies
Lesson from Book of Numbers 13
Caleb –Proactive
11 Spies- Reactive (Grasshoppers)

16. Proactive- the initiative
and the responsibility to make
things happen.
They find ways to do it.
Circle of Influence
Reactive- affected by
environment, they blame
others for their misfortune

17. Being a proactive servant-leaders, you can be part of the
solution, not part of the problem.
The servant-leader can conceive solutions to problems that do
not currently exist
(Greenleaf, 1970, pp. 23-25).
Greenleaf defined this as healing
as “to make whole” (1970, p. 27).
Activity: Listen to your language and to other people. How often do you use
and hear reactive phrases such as “if only, I can’t, or I have to?

18. Effective Communication skill
“Nothing in life is more important than the ability to communicate
effectively.”
President Gerald Ford
The effective servant-leader builds group consensus through “gentle
but clear and persistent persuasion, and does not exert group
compliance through position power.
Servant-leadership utilizes personal, rather
than position power, to influence
Followers and achieve organizational
objectives.

19. Influential People
You can influence people if you have the charisma.
“How can you have charisma?
Be more concerned about making others feel good about
themselves than you are making them feel good about you.”
-Dan Reiland, Vice President of Leadership
Development, INJOY
“It is not what to say that matters, but how you say it.”

20. Responsible
With great power as strong as
leadership come great responsibilities.
What will you do if you are given a
chance to be a millionaire for one day?
Your actions should speak to your
ideals, integrity and character.
As a leader you are Stewards of your men.
Organizational stewards, or ‘trustees’ are concerned not only for the
individual followers within the organization, but also the organization as
a whole, and its impact on and relationship with all of society
(Greenleaf, 1970, p. 31).

21. Foresight
Foresight – “Prescience, or foresight, is a better than average
guess about what is going to happen when in the future”
(Greenleaf, 1970, p. 16).
Visionary
“ Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.”
GOALS

22. Set a plan for your team- long term plan, and make sure its
SMART
Know how to prioritize- what is urgent and important
Illustration: Rocks and stone in a jar
College
Graduate
Businessman Millionaire Death
21 25 30 70

23. Emphatic Listener
Empathy – The ability to mentally project one’s
own consciousness into that of another
individual.
Listening – A critical communication tool,
necessary for accurate communication and
for actively demonstrating respect for
others.
Emphatic Listening – listening with intent to
understand (S. Covey)
“ you see the world the way the see the
world”
“putting yourself into the situations of other
people”

24. Emphatic Listening – is the key to making deposits in Emotional Bank Account
(EBA)
“SEEK FIRST TO UNDERSTAND, THEN TO BE UNDERSTOOD”
“The servant always accepts and empathizes, never rejects” (1970, p. 12), and
“Men grow taller when those who lead them empathize, and when they are
accepted for who they are…” (1970, p. 14).
According to Greenleaf, “Only a true natural servant automatically responds to
any problem by listening first” (1970, p. 10)
-Robert Greenleaf
Activity: Appreciative Inquiry

25. Committed
Commitment to the growth of people – A
demonstrated appreciation and
encouragement of others. Per Greenleaf,
“The secret of institution building is to be
able to weld a team of such people by
lifting them up to grow taller than they would
otherwise be” (1970, p. 14).
True Leaders do not think , “If I train my
people to be better, they might turn out to
be better than I am.
“Leaders enables others to act not by
hoarding the power they have but by giving
it away” Russell (2001),

26. Do you want to lead people?
Inspire them!

27. Trainable
Empty yourself, and you will be filled with knowledge.
“He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good
commander.” Aristotle
Illustration:
Cup of water

28. Five Principles of Leadership
Leaders are Servant
Leaders works inside-out
Leaders are opportunity-minded
Leaders do the right things first
Leaders are a win/win oriented person
To be a leader is to be PERFECT
and effective person.

29. Be the change you want to see in the world .
Mahatma Gandhi
Take the lead, NOW!

30. Sources : 7 Habits of Highly effective People - Stephen Covey
Servant Leadership – Robert Greenleaf
The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader- John Maxwell
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