Leadership Presence

May 2013

The Essence of Leadership Presence

What does it really mean, and why is it important to you (and to others)?

Learning is not just about capacity, it is about awareness.

Truly profound levels of learning change who we are, and then how we change.

Suspend judgment for a deeper level of awareness, listen from nothing.Clarity happens when you can do this. In this opening things happen.

There is no meaningful conversation without people opening their minds. This is why meaningful conversation is so rare these days.

There is only one force; intention.

Question: How do we move beyond our normal ways of seeing things?

How the human paradigm works:

‘Observation’ leads to

‘Interpretation’leads to

‘Reality’leads to

‘A Story’

Three Levels of awareness:

1. How you see yourself2. How others see you3. The space in between …..the truth

What’s next?

Group Dialogue

What is your intention moving forward?

What is your plan to have impact?

What will now be required of you and where will you need to show up differently?

What is your commitment

moving forward?

Quotes that have had an impact on me…..

“If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room.”

- Unknown

"People may not remember exactly what

you did, or what you said, but they will always

remember how you made them feel."

- Dr. Garthwaite

“Follow me…..I am right behind

you.”

- John Maxwell

“Great spirits have always found

violent opposition from mediocre

minds”

- Albert Einstein

“You are the way you are, because

that’s the way you’ve made up

your mind to be.”

- John C. Maxwell

“The greatest danger is not that our hopes are set too high and

we fail to achieve them; it’s that they are too low and we

do.”

- Michelangelo

“15% of one’s financial success is due to one’s

technical knowledge and 85% is due to skill in human engineering –

leadership and influencing people.”

- Dale Carnegie

“Ego and Awareness can not co-exist.”

- Eckhart Tolle

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the

round pegs in the square holes…the ones who see things differently– they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them,

disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is

ignore them because they change things…they push the human race

forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius,

because the ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are

the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

Leadership and Social Media influence for business….

What would happen if I Google’d YOU?

The new leadership reality…

Thank you for invited me to be part of your group…..I am

honored!

Neil ThorntonThe Thornton GroupTrigger Strategies905.401.1434 neil@thorntongroup.cawww.thorntongroup.cawww.triggerstrategies.ca

@neilathornton