Develop Skills Based on Qualities You Already Possess

Ø Inner strength
Ø Innate kindness
Ø Boldness
Ø Pride
Ø Humor
Ø Realism
Ø Humility

And the greatest of these is humility. Great leaders always exude a pronounced sense of humility in their dealings with fellow human beings. They can be tough but never rough, gentle but never soft. The effects of genuine humility are awesome and have the power to inspire loyalty in others.

Ø Learn to be strong but not rude - It is an essential step you must take to become a powerful, capable leader with a wide ranging 'reach'. Some people mistake rudeness for strength. It’s not even close to being a good substitute.

Ø Learn to be kind but not weak - You must never mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn’t weak. Kindness is a special type of strength. You must be kind enough to tell somebody the truth. You must be kind enough and considerate enough to lay it on the line. You must be kind enough to tell it like it is and not deal in delusion.

Ø Learn to be bold but not a bully - It takes boldness to win the day. To build your influence, you’ve got to walk the talk in front of your group. You’ve got to be willing to take the first arrow, tackle the first problem, and discover the first sign of trouble.

Ø Be proud but not arrogant - It takes pride to win the day. It takes pride to build your ambition. It takes pride in community. It takes pride in cause, in accomplishment. But the key to becoming a good leader is being proud without being arrogant. In fact the worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance. It’s when you don’t know that you don’t know. Now that kind of arrogance is intolerable. If someone is smart and arrogant, we can tolerate that up to a point. But if someone is ignorant and arrogant, that’s just too much to take.

Ø Develop humor without folly - This is important for a leader. In leadership, we learn that it’s okay to be witty, but not silly. It’s okay to be fun, but not foolish.

Ø Deal in reality - Save yourself the agony. Just accept life as it is. Life is unique. Some people call it tragic, but in fact it’s unique. The whole drama of life is unique. It’s fascinating. Skills that work well for one leader may not work at all for another but the fundamental skills of leadership can be adapted to work well for just about everyone: at work, in the community, and at home.

Ø Finally: learn to be humble, but never timid. You can’t get to the high life by being timid. Some people mistake timidity for humility. Humility is almost a God-like word. A sense of awe. A sense of wonder. An awareness of the human soul and spirit. An understanding that there is something unique about the human drama versus the rest of life. Expressed another way, humility is a grasp of the distance between the stars, and yet giving out the feeling that we’re part of the stars. Humility is a virtue; but timidity is a disease.

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