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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Today’s lecture is on "leadership success". Key leadership success secrets set the great leaders apart from the so-so leaders in today’s organizations. Leadership style is learned from mentors, learned in seminars and exists as part of a person’s innate personal leadership skill set developed over years, and existing possibly, from birth. Do you know that you can successfully handle most leadership challenges with just 5 simple strategies? By focusing your attention on these critical areas you can empower yourself the opportunities hiding within your vision, new venture or project plans.
   The biggest problem facing people like you is to know when, what and how to operate your leadership power keys. You have no problem turning on your computer, using it to find answers and producing your letters or re ports with it. Why not make your leadership power keys help you influence others, guide them towards rewarding outcomes and nurture their growth into success-driven leaders?
   The first power key is to simplify the complex. The reason why leaders are important is because of the situation, circumstance or condition facing the group. You can look at these things as being a need, a problem or an opportunity. People will look to you to lead them as you explore, discover and plan the best course of action for dealing with this complex state of affairs. Therefore your leadership power key relies on your ability to systematically investigate, evaluate, map, organize and communicate solutions.
   Then comes the second power key. This is the time for boldness! Your group begs to do something inspiring, engaging, worthwhile and special Give them a vibrant, vivid and vital vision--excite their hearts, minds, souls and spirits.
   Regardless of your task, function, project or business, you must lead others using your mind’s eye, that is an imagined view of a compelling vision. Your leadership power key involves creating, shaping, sharpening and publicizing the vision as you also encourage people to embrace it, own its outcomes and feed its possibilities.
   Next power key is to concentrate your efforts. Your team will wonder about their priorities every moment of every day. How will you inform, reassure and coach them? There are just a few items you should focus your efforts, attention and assessments on--they are your leadership agenda. First is security, which means your team’s health, wellness and safety. Second comes wisdom. You need to pay attention to their knowledge, relevance and applicability. Then you should think about power.  You should know about different types of power, for example, personal, team, shared and how much power do you have. Next, you should put emphasis on guidance. Where and when should you give them instruction? What kind of guidance do they need? Why do they want to have it? How should you deliver it? And what’s more, you should focus on conceptuality. It means that you should analyze patterns and concepts to help you know what to do and how to do.
   The fourth power key is to discipline your team and stick to your strategies. You must deal effectively with reality to hold onto your leadership power keys. If there is no disciplined approach, direction or intent, you will not lead for very long. Many leaders fail to rigorously design, supervise or execute their strategies. Yet, strategic planning can be one of your strongest power keys.  Your strategy should empower others to trust your motives, maintain their willpower, develop a positive self-regard, define their responsibilities, exercise control, judge their performance or progress and usher them through the process of change.
   Next power key is to watch your own behaviors. You don’t have to change your spots! You do, however, have to serve the needs of different circumstances, constituents and considerations. There are certain ethical matters that you must apply--you will need to be fair, honest, and consistent when dealing with people. Your behavior reflects your concerns, concentrations and character. Your leadership power key demands that you adopt the proper mental attitudes, behaviors based upon rock solid personal values and motives driven by your most positive eccentric forces. Can you adapt? Will you behave? Do you really care? These questions reveal the power behind this key.
   You can spend thousands and invest weeks of precious time in formal classroom instruction. Eventually you would begin to acquire these power keys of successful leaders.
   These simple principles are so easy to remember--in fact, I use them myself. They’re the power keys to all of my personal, business and community leadership activities and they always deliver great results.
   Gurus like Peter Drucker, Tom Peters, Warren Bennis, Jack Welch discuss these five principles at length in their work. Great historical figures including Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, John F. Kennedy and Marie Curie have demonstrated these skills in their leadership roles.
   Your leadership success depends on your agreement with Churchill’s observation: "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." These 5 power keys are the keys to success for all of your life adventures. Will you walk with expectations for positive outcomes? Will you commit yourself to growing stronger and use your own leadership power keys to energize your performances? Try to practice those 5 power keys and it is not long for you to be a successful leader.