WELCOME TO SOUTHERN AFRICA LEAdERSHIp SUMMIT THEME: bENCHMARk - - PDF document

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WELCOME TO

SOUTHERN AFRICA LEAdERSHIp SUMMIT

THEME: bENCHMARk

HOSTED BY: MEN OF ISSACHAR VISION

Leadership Benchmark

Benchmark

Definition: the standard of doing things

Determines:

• 1. The standard of the product
• 2. The speed of the product
• 3. Ensures durability of the product
• 4. Continual effectiveness in delivery capacity

“When quality drops you will pay more to run the product” “Leading is not being qualified through exams but being visionary” “A vacant seat is better than a disloyal leader”

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Leadership Benchmark

“A leader who leads other people must first lead himself” Leading yourself means:

1. Emotional stability 2. Personal development

– Grow yourself to be a stronger better person

3. Learn to gain followership without demanding for it

– Quality of delivery; Clarity of vision

4. You help to avoid mistakes and that keeps the system running effectively 5. A fair and just journey on other people

– Leaders who don’t check themselves lead as though they were never weak

6. Ability to manage difficult situations well without raising alarm

Leadership Benchmark

“A leader who leads other people must first lead himself” How to develop self leadership

• 1. What you know is yours, what you don’t know is greater than you

– Learn what you don’t know, even from a baby – Be patient to learn

2.Know your obvious tendencies and protect yourself

– Put checks around yourself to keep you safe – Tendencies include money, opposite sex, pride of office

“Life has many cycles, behave well at every point: you might need the man you despised today just tomorrow morning”

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Leadership Benchmark

“A leader who leads other people must first lead himself” How to develop self leadership

3.Choose good examples to imitate – don’t choose tyrants 4.Be willing to rebuke yourself; don’t excuse yourself – take responsibility 5.Develop your spiritual capacity – the world we live in is more spiritual than natural

– Men who hold allegiance to spirits that are not God will submit to men whose allegiance is to God Almighty

Leadership Benchmark

Benchmark checklist – assessing where you serve at the moment

• 1. Is 20% of your organization doing 80% of the work?
• 2. Are employees truly engaged in what they do or are they simply going

through the motions?

• 3. Are you struggling with getting management to listen and focus on what

is really going on?

• 4. Do managers find themselves focused more on fixing poor performance

rather than improving results?

• 5. Do you feel perhaps managing much more than leading?

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Leadership Benchmark

Counsel for African leaders

• 1. A leader’s policy process is influenced by his personal values

and religious beliefs – believe right

• 2. Think the nation and don’t think personal benefit – there are

legitimate benefits associated with the office

− Selflessness: the leader’s benchmark

• 3. Be the one man influencer for change if the entire system is

mad – you alone CAN make a difference

• 4. Leading right is thinking right, learning right things and doing

right things