ATTITUDELeadership 2014

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand the value of your attitude as a leader

• Understand the significance of attitude for personal growth

Reading:Chapter 6 Developing the Leader Within You John Maxwell

ACTIVITY1. Write the name of a friend you

admire.

2. Write one thing that you admire most about that friend.

WHAT IS

attitude?Attitudes are the established ways of responding to people and situations that we have learned, based on the beliefs, values and assumptions we hold. Attitudes become manifest through your behaviour.

Keep your heart (attitude) with all diligence, for out of it are all

the issues of life. Proverbs 4:23

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes. – Charles Swindoll

Attitude:• Is a habit

• Is highly valued

• Affects everything

• Is a choice

1. Our attitudes

are our most important assets

Our attitude may not be the asset that makes us great

leaders, but without good ones we will never reach our full

potential.- John Maxwell

What lies behind us and what lies before us

are tiny matters compared

to what lies within us. – Walt Emerson

Our expectations have a great deal to do with our attitudes. And these expectations may be totally false, but they will determine our attitudes.

- John Maxwell

2. It’s improbable that a person with a bad attitude can continuously

be a success

3. I am responsible for my

attitudes

4. It’s not

what happens to me

that matters but

what happens in me

The one thing you cannot take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one’s freedoms is to choose one’s attitude in any given circumstances.

-Viktor Frankl (Nazi concentration camp survivor)

5. The leader’s attitude

helps determine the attitudes of the

followers

A leader’s

Attitude is caught by his or her followers more quickly

than his or her

Actions