Become Super Leaders - Creating a competitive EDGE

Provide reader new insights and knowledge on how they can become better leaders, first to themselves. Apply these insights immediately.

Readers will be able to formulate a daily task list that can help them in their work routine.

Inspire and motivate the participants to have a better sense of well-being, commitment and purpose to their role in community.

Primary Insights

• What do you understand by leadership?


• How would you define leadership?


• What do you think are the qualities of a Super Leader?

Purpose of Leadership

• What is the purpose of leadership?


• Why must people lead?


• Can followers also have a leader-like mentality?


• Should followers be able to think like their leader?

What is a Super Leader?

• Someone who cares


• Someone who motivates


• Someone who inspires


• Someone who can help you get to where you need to go


• Someone who can change your life for ever

How do you become a Super Leader?

• Become fully involved and engaged but not become a micro manager


• Be able to delegate that your message is clear, consistent, and concise


• Be able to lead by example, not just words


• Be able to make leaders of your followers

A Super Leader is Super in:

• Communication


• Courage


• Caring for each and everyone of his team


• Taking responsibility and ownership


• Motivating People


• Evoking People to Act


• When he loses his center, goes back to it right away


• Making you imagine your best self and best life ever, and actually helping you get there.


• Leading by Serving


• Giving clear goals and objectives, and guidelines on how to achieve them.

Super Leaders Never Make Excuses

• When a follower is at fault, he also takes responsibility and never blames others for his own mistakes or makes excuses for his fault.


• What are the typical excuses you make when you don’t deliver?


• What should a leader in times of problem or crisis?

Leadership is Embodied

• Have you met people who are all talk, no do?


• A true leader walks his talk.


• How he lives is his message.


• How will you live as a leader? Of your home, your community, your job?

Super Leaders are not wishing wells

• A leader is not someone who will give his team all the answers, rather


• A leader is someone who will help navigate his team come up with the best possible solution.

A Super Leader portrays Humility

• His success is never because of him alone but because of his team.


• He will seldom talk about his accomplishments but rather boast the achievements of his team members

Leadership means genuine care

• True leaders care about their team members and not mislead them or give them false expectations.

Leaders Steer Towards the Goal

• Without clear direction, the team will drift nowhere. Maybe somewhere, but not where the goal is.


• A Super Leader not only gets you to the goal, but just like a best and super pilot that makes a perfect landing.

Leaders Ensures Tasks Are Completed

• Time bound


• Maximize allotted time given


• Avoid having to repeat tasks several times, if it can be done once, do it just once

Leaders Taps Your Forte

• A leader is able to identify the strengths and weaknesses of his team members, and is able to capitalize on the strengths of his members.

Leaders set clear expectations and objectives

• Do your homework and make sure you are clear on what needs to happen


• Do your part by taking notes and learning to clarify objectives.


• Ensure that everyone has understood their roles clearly

Super Leaders Learn Something New Everyday

• A Super Leader is someone who never stops learning something new every day.


• One cannot lead if he is not equipped with enough information coming from a wide variety of sources

Recommended additions to daily habits

• Read several pages of a book, magazine, journal or blogs


• Exercise


• Meditate / Pray


• Learn a new skill, language or even musical instrument.


• Learn about something that is totally different from your field of expertise

Being Comfortable with Silence

• Calming the mind, feeling the breath


• This is the best way to go back to your center


• Staying calm in any situation is the best way to respond


• Staying calm does not mean that you don’t have a sense of urgency or the ability to act in an appropriate manner

Super Leaders Build Super Relationships

• At the end of the day, a leader that cannot build strong bonds with his team members will have a very difficult time achieve anything.


• Do you do your work because you fear your boss or because you care about him as he cares about you?

True Respect Is Earned

• A leader never demands respect


• He is respected because he is worthy of respect


• What do you think are the main reasons why you believe that people should respect you? Is it because of stature, money, influence, power?


• Is a leader’s power the reason for respecting him?

Excellence in Leadership

• A Super Leader aims only to achieve the most excellent results, performing in the most excellent way, being the most excellent of all.


• Successful organization core value is EXCELLENCE. It is therefore necessary that leaders perform in utmost excellence.

Commitment to Leadership

• What are a leader’s greatest commitments?


• What things in particular do you believe that your leaders should be committed to?

A Leader’s Daily Routine

• Prayer: Putting God first


• Set directions for the day


• Inspire his people for productive


• Commit to accomplishing the goal


• Work with his team to achieve the goal


• Thank his team for their contribution


• Day’s reflection / How to become even better


• Prayer: Thank God

Leadership Timing Principles

• Between working smart and working hard, it’s better to work smart and get things done versus to work hard but not get things done


• Don’t get caught up in Analysis / Paralysis


• Careful planning saves a lot of time


• Are all the elements, requirements in place? Did we forget anything.


• When everything is in place, JUST DO IT.

Final Insights

• Super Leaders do not wait around for things to happen because they are the ones who make things happen.


• Super Leaders create a path for others to follow in their success because they want everybody around them to succeed as well.


• Super Leaders make everyone around them feel and become Super.


• Super Leaders leave a legacy behind that other will follow.