Be CREATOR of Leadership

You are a coach. You coach leaders. Sometimes you coach those who would
like to be leaders.

How do you define leadership? What are the measures of leadership

success? Where do you begin?

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their

mission can alter the course of history: Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi defines the leader as being truly transformational, inspiring us to

greater heights of creative achievement, altering the course of history as he
did.

CREATOR is a simple 7-point framework that works. Several leadership

surveys have confirmed these attributes; effective psychometric tools
evaluating leadership potential use them in one form or another; leaders who I
quote below have experimented and succeeded with them; in my own limited
experience, I use this to coach and train executive leaders.

Leaders I quote are not corporate leaders. They are role models for corporate
leaders I have spoken to.

Charismatic presence

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving
happier: Mother Teresa

Charisma is about energy, passion and love, compassion and presence.

Presence is intangible, yet experienced, energy. Mother Teresa embodied
charisma touching millions to joy while millions looked the other way.

Leader without presence is absent.

Resilient to outcome

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential...
these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence: Confucius

Resilience comes with determination, commitment, perseverance and tenacity

to reach desired outcome. It is the attitude that helps us bounce back, time
and again, against the heaviest odds to outcome. What was true in the days
of Confucius is even truer today.

Leaders never say die.

Engage & Communicate

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes
to sit down and listen: Winston Churchill

Listening creates engagement. Nurturing questions lead to empathy.

Engagement creates alignment between the people and the organization, and
teamwork. These together spell performance and success.

Strange words from Winston Churchill, not what one would imagine from him,
yet true; probably what made him the leader he was, under the most difficult
circumstances his country and the world then faced.

Awareness to Action

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool:
William Shakespeare

Awareness exhibits as emotionally intelligent blend of inter and intra personal

consciousness helping you to move to conscious competence and beyond.
Awareness arises through reflection and creates the intuitive intelligence that
is the hallmark of leaders.

Shakespeares wisdom has resonated with generations of leaders.

Transform self & others

What we think, we become: Buddha

Leaders envision what we ought to be not what we are. The vision is holistic
and not in parts, inspiring us with its transformational approach. Leaders help
you transcend the past and present to create your purposeful future.

Words of Buddha, five centuries before Christ, echo the haunting words of the
Hindu scripture Brihadaranyaka Upanishad three millennia before him.

Open to be vulnerable

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of
yourself that you truly give: Kahlil Gibran

Openness is about receiving and giving, learning and teaching, failing and
succeeding, and being vulnerable. Great leaders are rarely wealthy giving
away what they own. They give from within, with love and compassion. They
embrace failure with humility.

The Prophet speaks for all with these words, especially leaders.

Respect as Equal

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value:
Albert Einstein

Respect for ones own values and those of others anchor the leaders
relationship with others. It is reflected through treating others as equals,
appreciating one another, grateful for what one has and what one receives.

Words from a man of science, a genius, whose humility reflected in everything

he said and did, evoking trust and respect.

As a coach, embrace these values and enhance them with feedback. You can
then coach others.

Ram (http://coacharya.com) is a leadership coach & trainer, and spiritual

wanderer, blending eastern spiritual wisdom with modern psychological and
neurobiological knowledge to create mindless awareness.