The largest amount of pressure that we can ever put on people is
to expect them to live up to our own expectations, to expect them
to do things how we would like things done, when we would like things
done. And yet, to be an Effective Leader means to live up
to the innermost expectations of those we lead; their burning desire
to be guided, motivated, inspired, encouraged, exhorted, defended
and led; to do things how they would like things done,
when they would like things done – without negatively impacting
the execution of organizational goals and objectives.
Our Latest Life Research
This is why our latest Life Research is about this intriguing concept
of leadership, which is the oldest profession on earth, the most
powerful title you can ever hold, and the utmost test of your abilities,
desires and intentions. We will be presenting our eye-opening findings
in this year’s Ultimate
Leadership Conference, and thus exhort you to come and familiarize
yourself with What
Leaders Often Forget and The
Ultimate Duties of Leadership.
Ultimate Leadership Duties
Our Ultimate
Leadership Conference scheduled for Saturday, June 21st is for
men and women who have people looking up to them for guidance and
direction, who long to consistently secure the interest and collaboration
of their people that is necessary to achieve common goals and objectives:
Parents and Guardians who would like to know how
to be heard by their children and how to help their children to
finally feel understood, for your ultimate duty is to sustain a
home that your spouse and children deem harmonious and always willingly
to participate.
Supervisors, Managers and Executives who would
like to finally secure the unabashed support of their staff and
build sustainable team harmony, for your ultimate duty is to foster
a workplace that your staff don’t struggle with going to on
Mondays and are not extremely happy about leaving on Fridays.
Sales Persons and Customer Service Representatives
who would like to know how to better connect with clients and ensure
mutual satisfaction to build lasting sales opportunities, for your
ultimate duty is to ensure mutual satisfaction and secure repeated
customers.
Pastors and Evangelists who would like their congregation
to be more willing to contribute time and money towards church growth,
for your ultimate duty is to cultivate a church that your congregation
don’t mind attending more than once a week and don’t
struggle with serving and giving their financial contributions.
Teachers and Professors who would like to infuse
excitement into their classrooms and increase class participations,
for your ultimate duty is to maintain a school that your students
are excited about attending and would miss upon graduation.
Athletes and Coaches who would like to help their
teams bring out more of their innermost potentials, their undiscovered
abilities, for your ultimate duty is to advocate a team that players
feel truly appreciated, appropriately challenged and very supported.
Community Leaders and Government Officials who
would like their people to be more sacrificial and interested in
the focus, goals and objectives, for your ultimate duty is to nurture
community objectives that members make sacrifices for.
As Doctors or Nurses who would like to attract
the local patients that are undertaking long journeys to far away,
more-caring hospitals, for your ultimate duty is to nurture a hospital
environment that patients feel like partners.
As Business Owners who would like to grow their
business despite intense competition and heightening customer demands,
for your ultimate duty is to nurture a business culture that clients
feel appreciated like shareholders.
As a leader, it is your people who will . . .
more
The
leader is best when people are hardly aware of his existence,
Not so good when people praise his government, Less good when
people stand in fear, Worst, when people are contemptuous.
Fail to honour people, and they will fail to honour you.
But of a good leader, who speaks little, When his work is
done, his aim fulfilled, The people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
(Lao Tzu) More
Exhortation Quotes
"Leadership
is the art of getting someone to do something you want done
because he wants to do it."
( Dwight D. Eisenhower)
"A big man
is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him."
( John C. Maxwell)
"Never doubt
that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
( Margaret Mead)
"Do not
go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail."
( Ralph Waldo Emerson)
"A man who
wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd."
(Max Lucado)
The
Inconvenient Truth
As a leader, it is your people who will make or break you; it is
your people who will determine the successes and failures of your
leadership. So until you take your leadership serious, no one else
will, definitely not the people you lead; until you take your leadership
in your own hands, everyone else will. Thus, we exhort
you to attend this year’s Ultimate
Leadership Conference scheduled for Saturday, June 21st, and
get acquainted with this concept of Ultimate Leadership and What
Leaders Often Forget.
The resistance to leadership experienced in workplaces, schools,
churches and homes has a lot to do with the lack of effective leaders
than the common notion of hardened hearts and stubbornness on the
part of workers, students, congregations and children. It has a
lot to do with leaders not effectively communicating their vision,
not doing enough to garner the crucial support of their people,
and not being the example that is required to inspire others.
When you outwardly or inwardly tag your workers, students,
congregation and family members as lazy and unmotivated, you have
given up your right to lead them. This is The
Inconvenient Truth!
Register for the Ultimate
Leadership Conference to get acquainted with What
Leaders Often Forget and The Ultimate
Duties of Leadership. If you would like us to come deliver this
message at your workplace, congregation, organizational event, school
or community gathering, click here.
And as expected of a friend, your friends and families will appreciate
you sharing these opportunities with them. As a leader, your role
is to develop leadership in others, not to raise more followers.
We look forward to seeing you at the Ultimate
Leadership Conference on Saturday, June 21st, 2008! If you are
yet to register with us so you may start receiving personalized
information relating to your specific areas of life and business
interest, click here.
Due to very limited spaces, secure your spot now by contacting us
now or via email, if even to reconfirm your attendance. Group rates
are also available for those considerate enough to come along with
their own leaders, associates, coworkers, coaches, pastors, and
parents.
If unable to attend due to other engagement or distance, you may
signup for the transcript or recording and we will ensure you receive
them as soon as they are available.
Other
Life Enrichment Opportunities
• Our 8th quarterly Marriage
Enrichment Forum is scheduled for Saturday, June 21st. The topic
is Unyielding Commitment – Why Ordinary Commitment is no longer
enough in your marriage. For more information, click here.
• We recently launched our Family
Coaching Program, which is designed to make your children feel
understood while strategically helping you to effectively communicate
your hopes and desires to them without making them feel overwhelmed
or exasperated. For more information, click here.
• We have recently updated our About
Us webpage in response to many of your questions. To better
acquaint yourself with the numerous opportunities of taking yourself
and business to the next level of greatness, click here.
To have this exhortation or any other one in our Life
of Impact series personally delivered in your organization,
church, communal gathering or any other event, please send an email
to alex.ihama@TheExhortation.com.
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Growth!
"I better be the leader that I desire others to be and
foster the standards that I desire others to foster. This
is the only way the people I lead would understand what I
am talking about." (Alex Nosa Ihama) (Life Coach)
“Example
is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only
thing.” (Albert Schweitzer)
"The art
of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say
yes."
(Tony Blair)
"Leadership
and learning are indispensable to one another."
(John F. Kennedy)
"Leadership
is action, not position."
(Donald H. McGannon)
"The best
executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to
do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from
meddling with them while they do it.”
( Theodore Roosevelt)
"It is better
to have 1 person working with you, than 3 working for you.”
(Unknown)
The website is so edifying and empowering. It cuts across to meet the
social, emotional, financial, relationship, physical and spiritual needs
of everyone. I am so blessed and encouraged by the words on it. The World
needs more of you with such excellent service provision.
Keep up the good work; your labour of love is not in vain.
As a young
man, Al was a skilled artist, a potter. He had a wife and two fine sons.
One night, his oldest son developed a severe stomach ache. Thinking it was
only some common intestinal disorder, neither Al nor his wife took the condition
seriously
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