NM Freemason Skills & Drills

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Leadership

Lead yourself first. Then lead others.

Leadership is the older word, not management. A Mason's first lead is himself: he claims choice (proactivity), names his values, writes the mission they shape, sorts his roles, sets goals, prioritizes, builds the daily habits, and renews the man doing all of it. Then Greenleaf's published servant-leader frame bridges to leading others. Once that man is steady, the work moves outward to the small group he stands with at altar and table, onward to the wider room he speaks into, and finally to the long arc of leading change so the work outlasts the man. Four sub-arcs plus the bridge — twenty-five chapters: personal effectiveness, servant leadership (the bridge), group dynamics, influential communication, and leading change.

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Be Proactive: the choice is yours

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Values: the lens you plan through
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Mission Statement: the eight-step craft
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Goals: SMART and meaningful
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First Things First: the planned and the unplanned
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Tasks: the daily practice
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Sharpen the Saw: the renewal habit
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Servant Leadership: the bridge from leading yourself to leading others
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Leadership = Motivation: the follower's view
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The Five Levels of Leadership
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Understanding Others: values, motivation, and what people actually want
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Personality Types: working with people who aren't you
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Tribes, Social Identity, Mission and Vision
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Building Teams (and Failing Forward)
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Win-Win Thinking: the abundance mentality
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Active Listening: seek first to understand
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Difficult Conversations: holding the room when stakes are high
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Synergy: the third alternative
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Persuasion: ethical influence and the Maxwell Law of Buy-In
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Why Change is Hard: paradigms, resistance, and the human substrate
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Kotter's 8-Step Process: the published workhorse for leading change
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The Human Side of Change: Switch, Bridges, and the heart of Habit 1
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Building Momentum: short-term wins, the J-curve, and the Big Mo
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Sustaining Change and Legacy: anchoring in culture, the long game
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