integration of spirituality in the workplace. based on ancient wisdom

1. Jesus CEO
USING ANCIENT WISDOM FOR
VISIONARY
LEADERSHIP
Workshop 4th Feb 2004
Facilitated by
Stanley Arumugam & Rani Moodley

2. Welcome and Introductions
 Small beginnings to a great adventure
 Mid 1990’s in a bookstore
 Synchronicity / Serendipity
 California beckons
 Pioneering : The Path ( Mission/Vision )
 Jesus CEO : grows quietly and begins to sprout

3. Parallel Movements
 Consulting by ‘accident ’ after treating stressed out
executives
 Corporate observations :
- abuse
- neglect
- arrogance
- violence
- homeless people

4. Turning the Tide
 True empowerment in all layers of leadership
 Review the divine excellence in ourselves and all
who we serve
 See a role model of principles in action – so that we
can return to the blueprint
 JESUS CEO – as one model of corporate
excellence
 Becoming true leaders internally, externally and for
all eternity

5. Programme overview
 Welcome & introductions
 Business leadership trends
 Spirituality in the workplace
 The Jesus CEO model
 Tea break
 Theme 1: The Strength of Self mastery
 Lunch
 Theme 2: The Strength of Relationships
 Tea break
 Theme 3: The Strength of Action
 Invitation – Jesus CEO Foundation
 Closure

6. Workshop Guidelines
Safe, effective learning
experience
 Speak for yourself and not for other people
 Everyone is entitled to their personal opinions
 Honour time limits
 Cellphones to be switched off
 It is okay to say No.
 During breaks ask permission to continue
discussing a shared experience
 Taking your leave at tea time
 WHAT YOU PUT IN IS WHAT YOU GET OUT!

7. Getting To Know You
 Name and organisation
 Hometown and favourite food
 What is working about current models of corporate
leadership?
 What is not working (despite MBA’s and Phd’s)
 Can you suggest one or two ways in which we can
lead differently.

8. Meaning of work ?
Why do you spend …
your labour for that which does not satisfy?
-–Isaiah 55:1-2
When work doesn’t work anymore.
Women, work and identity
Elizabeth Perle McKenna (1997)

9. Workplace Trends
Where does spirituality fit in?

10. SPIRITUALITY
God and Business
Bringing spirituality into the workplace violates the
old idea that faith and fortune don't mix. But a
groundswell of believers is breaching the last taboo
in corporate America.
FORTUNE , Monday, July 9, 2001
by Marc Gunther
Searched the web for
spirituality in the workplace.
Results 11 - 20 of
about 117,000

11. Havard Business School 2002 & 2003
Leadership, Values, and Spirituality
Forum
 "The Market as God - What is Moral Authority for Decision
Making?"
 CEO Roundtable: Leadership Without Easy Answers
 "The Soul of Leadership"
 Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
 Walking the Tight Wire: Family & Career, Finding the balance
 Genomics: Where does the science end and ethics begin?
 Can Spirituality Drive Success?
 Entrepreneurship & Values
 Money, Media, & Morality
 Leadership during Crisis Situations
 Ethical Dilemmas in Globalization
 Alternative Careers: The Road Less Traveled
 What is Success? Business, Spirituality, and Values

12. The Loneliness of the
High-Powered Woman
CREATING A LIFE
Professional Women and the Quest
for Children
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett

13. Reasons for Interest in Spirit
at Work
 Impact of downsizing
 Workplace as a primary source of community
 Exploration of spirituality
 Spiritual disorientation

14. Reasons for Interest in Spirit
at Work
 Baby-boomers’ soul searching
 Advent of the knowledge age
 Organization’s desire for competitive edge
 Search for meaning in work

15. Business management &
leadership trends
1.
Taylorism
Scientific management
3.
Inspirational
Leadership icons
5.
EQ
IQ + EQ
6.
SQ
IQ + EQ + SQ
4.
Systemic
Context management
2.
Humanism
T – encounter groups

16. Emotional
Intelligence
EQ
Behavioural
Intelligence
BQ
Common Sense
Intellectual
Intelligence
IQ
Spiritual
Intelligence
SQ
Head
HandsHeart
Spirit
Leadership Wisdom
Self

17. People
Leadership
Performance/Task
Management
Strategic/Goal
Management
Visionary
Transformational
Leadership
Head
HandsHeart
Spirit
Leadership & Management
Major Functions
(Efficiency)
(Effectiveness)
(People Well-Being)
(Community/Culture)

18. Current corporate response?
Law & grace
 Institutionalisation of morality
 Laws are made to be broken
 Grace gives us the opportunity to excel

19. Research study:
The Impact of Personal
Spiritual Practices in the
Workplace
Alexis M. Todd

20. Literature Review
 There is a difference between religion
and spirituality
 Expressions of spirituality in the
workplace encompass values, attitudes,
and actions

21. Quantified benefits of
workplace spirituality include:
- increased profitability
- more effective customer service
- higher quality standards
- professionalism in the workplace
- better decision making
- improved business relationships

22. Spirituality is an integral part of my
day, whether at home, work or play
Agree
84%
Disagree
7%
Neither
Agree or
Disagree
9%
N=600
professionals

23. Spiritual practices are a valuable addition to my
business life
73% agreed
19% disagreed
8% no opinion
Have you considered the effect of your personal spiritual
practices on your performance in the workplace?
81% Yes
19% No
I believe that spirituality should be a part of a company’s
culture
57% agreed
19% disagreed
24% no opinion

24. In what areas have your personal
spiritual practices benefited your
work ?
10%
11%
27%
32%
51%
59%
78%
Personal Sales
Profitability
Longevity with Employer
Productivity
Business Relationships
Job Satisfaction
Ethics

25. Do you use your personal
spiritual practices to/for
15%
34%
48%
51%
57%
58%
59%
60%
Improve amount of work done
Create a vision for your work
Improve relationships with co-workers
Strength to make tough decisions
Get guidance thru difficulty
Give Thanks for the day
De-escalate negativity
Become calm during crisis

26. Which of these words describe
your workplace?
25%
26%
29%
31%
32%
37%
38%
Open Comm
Partnership
Shared Vision
Creative
Honest
Respectful
Ethical

27. The inner journey
Being religious means asking
passionately about the meaning of
existence.
Paul Tillich

28.  People are in every way prevented
from getting inside themselves. Our
greatest problem is a fear of depth
Thomas Merton

29. Job Satisfaction? Group
survey
Why do you work?

30. Job, Career, or Calling?
How do you think of your employment?
1. It’s a job
2. It’s a career
3. It’s a calling
4. It's both a job and a career
5. It's both a career and a calling.
6. It's all three.
Group
survey

31. Job Satisfaction?
Group
survey
What would
be
your ideal
workplace?

32. The Six Obstacles to Embracing
Our Vocational Calling
1. We fail to take the time necessary to reflect upon our lives.
2. A sacred/ secular distinction in the understanding of vocation.
3. Failure to distinguish between vocation and career or occupation.
4. We may succumb to the 3 classic temptations:
 power, security & significance
5. Misguided sense of duty.
6. Failure to appreciate our limits.

33. Challenge of the journey
 How do we embrace our purpose in
life with our calling at work?
 A frame of reference/model
 Guiding principles
 Courage of our convictions

34. Jesus CEO as a
model

35. Three Premises of Jesus CEO
Premise One
 One person trained 12 human beings who
went on to so influence the world that time
itself is now recorded as being before (BC)
or after (AD) his existence

36. Three Premises of Jesus CEO
Premise Two
 This person worked with a staff that was
totally human and not divine yet went on to
accomplish the tasks he trained them to
do.(Changing the world forever)

37. Three Premises of Jesus CEO
Premise Three
 His leadership style was based on
techniques intended to be put to use
by any of us no matter who or where
we are.

38. Ken Blanchard (2002)
The One Minute Manager
 ‘ I soon discovered that everything I
ever wrote about or taught, Jesus did .
All I was doing was rediscovering
what he had already proven as simple
truths…’

39. Jesus as a leadership model displayed
3 categories of strengths
 Strength of self mastery
 Strength of relationships
 Strength of Action
 Are you strong in all three?
 Success as a leader requires a total
combination eg. Doctors and
politicians

40. Goals
 Heighten your awareness level in each
category and assist you in the process of
mastering them all.
 Re-visit your current leadership mindset
Delete that which is no longer effective
 Challenge you to install new ways of
effectively leading yourself and others

41. Let us remember the 7 gifts
of corporate life
 Dignity
 Acknowledgement
 Prosperity
 Integrity
 Service
 Community
 challenge

42. New innovative leaders
 Spiritreneurs (spirit-ra-nurs)
 Spirit : the soul or heart
 Entrepreneur : a person who organises and
manages an enterprise
 Spiritreneur : an individual who fully
integrates her soul in a workplace
enterprise

43. Are you a Spiritreneur?
 Would I be doing this work even If I weren’t
getting paid?
 Am I doing this work as unto my God?

44. In a nutshell
 Jesus CEO shares a style of leadership that
harnesses emotional, intellectual, mental and
SPIRITUAL ENERGY.
 Not a quick fix or a get rich quick scheme
 Seeks people who are willing to plant the seeds that
will lead to a harvest in the workplace(very holy and
fertile ground)
 Leaders willing to implement models that will ‘turn the
tide’

45. Theme One:
Self Mastery

46. Theme 1: Strength of Self Mastery
Mastering Yourself (p.3)
 Leading others and leading ourselves
 How do we see ourselves when we are
alone?
 Jesus had to go through the wilderness
before he began his greatest work
 A wilderness experience shaped his destiny
– as it will yours and mine

47. The Wilderness Experience
 Loss of job / identity
 Traumatic experience
 Challenges to your health
 End of a relationship
 Death of a loved one
 Financial losses
 No sense of purpose

48. The Wilderness Experience
 In the wilderness we ( individual, team.
Organisation ) gets clear about :
- our gifts
- calling
- identity
- values
- priorities
- mission and vision for the rest of our lives

49. The Wilderness Experience
 Jesus endured the temptations in the
wilderness
- ‘ Turn these stones into bread ’
- ‘ Throw yourself off this cliff ’
 Wrong use of the gift / Wrong time, Wrong
reason
 Abuse of privilege
 Flirting with your strengths

50. The Wilderness Experience
 Gifts can be used for the right or wrong
reason
Gang members
- Entrepreneurs
- risk takers
- team builders
- artists
Channeling gifts into the right context

51. The Wilderness Experience
 What was your personal wilderness
experience?
 What happened and how did it help you
focus more clearly on your gifts and calling?
 How did it help you redefine yourself and
reshape the future?

52. Strength of Self Mastery
Speak in Word Pictures(p.4)
 Jesus said :
 I am the gate
 I am the good sheperd
 I am the vine
 I am the truth
 I am light
 I am living water
Every picture communicated something people
could understand and relate to.

53. Speaking in word pictures
 Did Jesus ever say anything negative about
himself?
 Humility : understanding your part in the
world and what you came here to do – not
saying or thinking negative things about
yourself.
 TV Screen

54. Speaking in Word Pictures
 What is your self-talk personally and as a
leader?
 Can you describe your self as an ‘ I AM ’
picture?
- bridge
- lighthouse
- sun
- arrow

55. Strength of Self Mastery
He Stuck to his Mission (p.5)
 Jesus knew his mission and he did not
deviate from it :
‘I came that they might have abundant life’
 Teaching and preaching
 Holding seminars by the sea
 Playing with children

56. He Stuck to his Mission
 A mission is a clearly defined territory of
responsibility, part of a larger plan and
experienced as a calling.
Important Elements
 It is no longer than a single sentence
 Easily understood
 Recited by memory at gun point
 Written down

57. He Stuck to his Mission
 Vision : pictures and details that arise out of
a mission
 Goals : action plans and ‘to do’ lists
 At the core of your mission is your
PASSION.
- replaces your name
- reason that you live
- inspires you

58. He Stuck to his Mission
False Assumptions
 My job is my mission
 My role is my mission
 My ‘to do’ list is my mission
 I am not currently living my mission
 My mission must be full of suffering
 My mission must be the same as my peers
 What I am doing is the close as I can get to
my mission

59. He Stuck to his Mission
 Imagine if you had all the power to :
- heal the sick
- raise the dead
- walk on water
- pull money out of a fish’s mouth
What will your day time look like?

60. He Stuck to his Mission
 Important to understand what Jesus did as
much as what he did not do.
 War : ‘If you really want to defeat the
enemy,
simply distract them’
 Why do leaders get off track?
 There also needs to be an alignment
between individual and corporate missions
( high turnover, absenteeism, back
problems)

61. He Stuck to his Mission
 What is your mission?
 Can you state it in a sentence of two?

62. Theme Two:
Relationships

63. He gave them a vision of something
larger than themselves p.37 (177-179)
 Relationships based on shared vision
 Search for meaningful work
 Helping people see the ‘big picture’
 Focus is not on the leader but on the goal
‘Where there is no vision the people will
perish’

64. He empowered women
p.41 (190-193)
 Male-dominated culture & workplace
 Legislative empowerment of women
 Stress of proving self worth & significance
 Dealing with other women
 Dealing with men

65. Relationships in action: Head
 He believed in them p.42 (197-199)
 The role of a significant other
 Basis of self esteem & worth
 Sense of belonging
 Being vs. doing

66. Relationships in action:
Hands
 He served them p.52 (250-254)
 Servant leadership (Robert Greenleaf)
 Stewardship (Peter Block)
 From Good to Great (Jim Collins)
 Jesus at the Last Supper

67. Relationships in action: Heart
 He prayed for them p.49 (230-231)
 Mystical nature of prayer
 Power of prayer
 Prayer as purposeful contemplation
 Act of genuine caring

68. Theme Three:
Action

69. Strength of Action
He was Bold and Visible (p24-25)
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper
T.S. ELLIOT

70. He was Bold and Visible
 Evil triumphs when good people do nothing
 Jesus did whatever it took
- knocking over tables
- shouting
- standing on mountain tops
He did the bold thing
Eg. Elijah

71. He was Bold and Visible
 He knew that authority must be firstly
assumed within
 What would change in your life, team and
organisation if you were 10 times bolder ?
 What are 10 new ways to increase your
visibility?

72. Strength of Action
He Came From the Left Field(p.22)
 Jesus did not come from the right side of town,was
not really handsome,not royalty
‘Can anything good come out of Nazareth’
 Jesus was not exactly what people had in mind for a
leader
 Few people consider themselves perfectly qualified
to lead
 Stereotype – is being repeatedly broken eg
Jesus was one of God’s surprises are You?

73. He came from left field
 Three calls to leadership
- burning bush
- burning heart
- burning house

74. He came from left field
 Burning Bush
- Moses : Set my people free
- Yearning inside us that will not go away or
turn to ashes eg. A dream that is 20 years
old, something that has bugged you.
- Says you take this problem
- You own it!
- Go do it!

75. He came from left field
 Burning Heart
- King David
- David and Goliath battle (chosen people)
- His heart was inflamed with anger
- Burning heart = Passionate desire

76. He came from left field
 Burning House
- Queen Esther
- Jew living in the kings’ palace
- ‘Have you been created for such a time as
this…’
- Risked her life to save a nation
- She tapped into hidden courage once her
house began burning

77. He came from left field
 In what ways do you ‘come from left field’ as
a leader?
 What call to leadership do you feel?
 Burning bush (message from the outside)
 Burning heart (passionate concern)
 Burning house (a crisis situation)

78. Creating Spirit at Work -
Individual
 Know what matters
 Choose the positive
 Follow your inner guidance
 Opt for transformative action
 Appreciate and respect yourself and others
 Live fully in the moment

79. Creating Spirit at Work:
Organization
 Vision what could be
 Align the work with the vision
 Ground the organization in creativity and initiative
 Create an environment that values people and their
contribution
 Build a sense of community

80. Jesus CEO Foundation
 www.jesusceo.com

81. The Journey continues…
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore.
Dream.
Discover.
Mark Twain