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Shepherds Advantage Leadership Podcasts are designed to provoke and stir the imagination to greater leadership capabilities. These podcasts are targeted toward non-profit leaders aim to Empower With Hope!

These inaugural podcast episodes are laying the foundation for everything that Shepherds Advantage will offer. “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” by John Maxwell is being used because of it’s comprehensive list. There simply is no other list that covers the depth and breadth of foundational laws of leading. There is an affiliate link below to purchase the book and a companion workbook.

In this podcast we will focus on:

The Law of Empowerment – 3 Barriers To Empowerment

1. Desire for job security – The #1 enemy of empowering others to lead is the fear of loosing what we have.  A weak leader obsess over their subordinates taking over their job. “They will take my job if I help them succeed!”
2. Resistance to change – John Steinbeck once asserted that as a man grows older he will protest against change even change for the better. It is a fact that humans for the most part do not like change. We have an incredible memory for how it used to be!
3. Lack of self worth – A person that is self conscious rarely becomes a great leader. They always seems to obsess about themselves and their perception of what other people think about them.

Author Buck Rogers stated that people with self confidence will embrace change as a stimulus. They truly believe that one person can in fact make a difference.

The Law of The Picture

Great leaders are visionary and yet practical at the same time. They anticipate what is ahead and yet understand that today certain tasks must be accomplished. Consider:

• MISSION provides purpose by answering the question of WHY?
• VISION provides a picture answering the question WHAT?
• STRATEGY provides a plan by answering the question HOW?

4 Key Insights of Effective Leading

1. Followers are always watching what you do! It does not matter how many presentations, memos, or meetings that you offer, truthfully, if people do not see your best effort on behalf of the organization or their lives – they will not offer their best in return for you!
2. It is easier to teach what is right than do what is right. Norman Vincent Peale said it best that nothing is more confusing to people that give advise whale setting a bad example!
3. We should work on ourselves before attempting to improve others. You cannot lead where you have not walked. Start with your own plan of personal improvement.
4. The most valuable gift that any leader can give others is the gift of a GOOD EXAMPLE! Leadership is truly more caught than taught!

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The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership WORKBOOK by John Maxwell

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Music: “Gratitude Mood” by David Arivett. You can learn more about his music by clicking on his name. THANKS DAVID!