Self leadership

1. SELF LEADERSHIP
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2. What is self leadership? Are you a self leader? Really? How do you know?
What makes a self leader? Is self leadership possible or uthopian?
Nowadays it’s easy finding models of leadership. Business schools talk about
leadership throughout courses and masteries. Internet is full of lapidaries quotes about
leadership. So is the social media, (FB, twitter).
When we think about leaders, we think about the great people in the past. People that
were considered leaders in their time and today in a certain way. In every area of life
(Politics, Economics, Religion, etc): Mother Therese of Calicut, Mahatma Gandhi,
Martin Luther King, Jane of Arc, Marie Curie, Wiston Churchill, Nelson Mandela,
William Wallace, Abraham Lincoln, Jesus Christ, etc.
They have some characteristics in common, very useful in their times. But the main one
is that everyone was a self leader.
Self leadership: A developed sense of who you are, what you can do, where you are
going, with the ability to influence your communication, emotions and behaviors on the
way to getting there.
Today, who are self leaders? In the following points, We are going to learn about what
makes a self leader.
Here some examples of alive self leaders.
All of them are Spanish o Latinoamerican people:
Latin-minded self leaders.
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3. RAFA NADAL
“I always work with a goal,
and the goal is to improve
as a player and a person”.
VISION
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4. VISION
Self leaders have a vision of what they should be. And it’s an empowering vision,
with clarity of goals. They set goals for their life; not just for their job. Self leaders
choose empowering beliefs, imagine success, develop positive self talk and
mental scripts.
RAFA NADAL
Spanish professional tennis player and the current world number one. He is
considered one of the greatest players of all time.
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5. BOSCO
GUTIÉRREZ
CORTINA
“Every day during my kidnapping
I ran an hour and a half and did
abdominal exercises. But the
most important muscle is will”.
SELF
COMMITMENT
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6. SELF COMMITMENT
Self leaders take responsibility, do what is necessary to do and this need self
discipline. Self leaders are responsible for their lives and show this
autorresponsability in their actions. They are self conscious. A fundamental
element is self control. Maintaining a discipline demands a controlled lifestyle.
BOSCO GUTIÉRREZ CORTINA
Mexican architect who was kidnapped for ninth months in a tiny cell. He
developed a self discipline during his kidnapping and achieved escaping. He did
what was under his control and he designed a regime of prayer and exercise.
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7. IRENE VILLA
“Look ahead, be brave
and give never up”.
SELF ESTEEM
& KNOWLEDGE
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8. SELF ESTEEM & KNOWLEDGE
Self leaders esteem themselves over all their defects and virtues; they have
the ability to forgive their mistakes and rightly value their qualities. Self
leaders possess an accurate sense of one’s abilities and achievements. Also
they have a healthy sense of humour, and can laugh at themselves. Self
leaders know themselves, their values, skills, strengths and weaknesses and
they work to improve themselves. They use behavioral strategies: selfcorrection, self-observation, self-goal setting, self-reward, cuesmanagement. They are lifelong learners, surrounded themselves with
mentors and people that are smarter than them.
IRENE VILLA
Spanish author, psycologist and journalist who lose both legs and several
fingers in an ETA terrorist attack in Madrid at the age of 12 . She has since
become a paralimpic skier.
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9. JAUME
SANLLORENTE
“There are places in life that
seep into your soul, becoming
forever a part of it”.
INTEGRITY
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10. INTEGRITY
Self leaders live their vision because of their values. And they are
congruent, live their values with integrity. Having integrity: acting
consistently with personal values, beliefs and attitudes. All this means to
tell the truth, be ethical, do the right thing. They have consciousness of self
and develope a continual self-reflection and an experiential learning. Self
leaders have high moral character, they know what is right and wrong, and
act accordingly.
JAUME SAN LLORENTE
Spanish journalist and public relations. He went on holidays to India for the
first time in 2003 and he was shoked by the poverty there, particularly by
the small children on the streets of Bombay, where kidnappings and child
exploitation were frequent. He gave up his job and life in Barcelone, to help
and create the Spanish non governmental organization "Bombay smiles".
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11. NANDO
PARRADO &
ROBERTO
CANESSA
“It was impossible and
we did it.”
COURAGE
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12. COURAGE
Self leaders don’t stop in the risks and emprend ways to reach their goals,
even dangerous ones. Self leaders adapt the changes, search for future
solutions and see obstacles as opportunities. They wonder: “why?”, and “why
not?”. They are insatiably curious, and question everything and possess
energy, tenacity, and enthusiasm. Self leaders take initiative and are brave and
fearless to fall down and get up.
NANDO PARRADO / ROBERTO CANESSA
Two of the sixteen Uruguayan survivors of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571,
which crashed in the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972. After spending
two months trapped in the mountains with the other crash survivors and where
they had to eat fresh human meat, both of them climbed through the Andes
mountains over a 10 day period to find help. Finally they were found and all the
group saved.
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13. POPE FRANCIS
“Money has to serve,
not to rule”.
EXEMPLARITY
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14. EXEMPLARITY
Self leaders give a good example that gets people to follow them. An
exemplary self leader doesn’t manage people, nor manipulate them, nor
master them. People follow a good self leader because of his conduct. Self
leaders know to communicate and transmit their passion for their vision,
their mission and their strategy. They communicate their lifestyle without
fear nor shame.
POPE FRANCIS
Born Jorge Mario Bergoglio he is the 266th and current pope of the
Catholic Church. Francis is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the
Americas and the first from the Southern hemisphere. He has been noted
for his humility, his concern for the poor, and his commitment to dialogue.
He has chosen to live in the Domus Sanctae Marthae guesthouse rather
than the papal apartaments formerly used by his predecessors and he is
known for favoring simpler vestments void of ornamentation. For example,
his shoes.
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15. TONI NADAL
“I am happy when Rafael plays good
tennis, but I take more pleasure when
people say Rafael is a very good
person”.
EMPOWERMENT
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16. EMPOWERMENT
Self leaders help people to develop leadership and self leadership. They
see the capabilities of others, empowering them, coaching them to be their
best.
TONI NADAL
Spanish tennis coach. Nadal is the uncle and coach of tennis player Rafa
Nadal. Toni trained Rafael on poor courts with bad tennis balls to teach
him that triumph doesn’t depend on the quality of materials but that is a
subject about attitude, discipline and perspective.
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17. YOURSELF!
The most important person
to lead is yourself
BE YOUR BEST
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18. CONCLUSION
Self leadership is an inside job.
Being your best, not being the best.
No man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
You can’t lead unless you can yourself.
And the most important person to lead is yourself.
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