Law of the Lid

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Law of the Lid

• Everyone has the Potential to become a Leader
• (Adapted from John C. Maxwells Book The 21 most
  powerful minutes in a Leaders Day, 2000)

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Law of the Lid

• Leadership ability determines a persons level of
  effectiveness.
• The higher you want to climb the more you need
  leadership
• The greater the impact you want to make the
  greater your influence needs to be
• Leadership ability is the LID that determines a
  persons level of effectiveness.

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Law of the Lid

• Your leadership ability - for better or worse
  determines your effectiveness and your potential
  impact in your organization
• To reach the highest level of effectiveness, you
  have to raise the lid on your leadership ability.

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Law of the Lid

• Good leaders will look for Lid Lifting
  experiences to grow in their leadership capacity
• Seek opportunities to grow your leadership
• Search for opportunities to improve
  organizational structures and procedures
• Seize opportunities to create greater
  efficiencies and to assist others in lifting
  their lids

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Law of the Lid

• Every leader faces obstacles, challenges, tests,
  and trials.
• Ineffective leaders will wait to see what happens
  during these times
• Effective leaders will act by seizing the moment
  and will rise to the challenge.
• Example General Stonewall Jackson verses General
  Ewell

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Law of the Lid
Gave us a vision for the future and spoke to the
greatness of America

• It is a leaders choice to change and grow
• Effective Leaders (True Leaders) will admit
  mistakes or shortcomings. They lift their lid of
  leadership by
• Accepting responsibility
• Changing their behavior
• Ineffective Leaders (Positional Leaders) do not
  acknowledge shortcomings or mistakes for fear
  people will perceive them as ineffective and/or
  weak.
• The irony is they already are.
• They do not accept responsibility and they look
  to blame others

Blamed American people for the recession told us
to get use to having less
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Law of the Lid

• Ineffective-Positional Leaders
• Title of a leader but without trust or rapport
  from their followers
• They stay as positional leaders because they do
  not see the value in building relationships,
  trust, and rapport with their followers
• They are a big liability to the organization
• They demand compliance which
• Rubs people the wrong way
• Decreases motivation
• If followers do work it is out of obligation
• They do not seek to grow!

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Law of the Lid

• Effective-True Leaders
• Take time to build relationships with their
  followers by
• Paying attention to the interests and passions of
  their followers
• Seeking to gain trust and rapport
• Investing time with their employees, and
• Being a Lid Lifter
• In your leadership have you been a lid lifter?

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Law of the Lid

• Every Leader has Lids
• Everyone is born with Lids titles and positions
  do not eliminate them
• The issue is not do you have Lids but what are
  you going to do about them
• What are the Lids leaders face?

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Lids that Leaders Can Face

• Fear
• Impatience
• Denial
• Impulsiveness
• Deceit
• Jealously
• Anger
• Confidence
• Lack of Knowledge
• Lack of Understanding
• Peoples perception of them
• What are your Leadership Lids?

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Some Lids can be lifted by the Leader

• The leader must first lift his/her Lids before
  s/he can grow the organization
• In order to grow an organization leaders must
  also grow the leaders they serve
• You grow leaders by helping them to lift their
  lids
• How have you helped lift some lids from leaders,
  teachers, and staff in your area of service?

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Lid Lifters

• All leaders will face times when they alone
  cannot lift their own lids
• When leaders hit those lids, that is the
  beginning of the end for their organization
• Why?

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Lid Lifters

• Because they give up and stop growing as a leader
• However, a few leaders, those with courage and
  humility, will seek other leaders for help,
  support, and encouragement so their lid can be
  lifted
• Do you have enough courage and humility to seek
  that help?

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Lid Lifters

• Lid Lifters always demonstrate three qualities
  that enables them to help leaders go to the next
  level.
• Their words The encouragement they express
• Their actions The commitment to backing up their
  words
• Their Sacrifice The selflessness that allows
  another leader to go to the next level even if it
  means ahead of themselves

Who are the LID LIFTERS in your life?
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Bring the Law of the Lid to Life

• Summary
• Everyone has the potential to be a leader
• Every leader has lids
• Some lids can be lifted by the leader
• Few leaders let others lift their lids in their
  lives

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Bring the Law of the Lid to Life

• How are you with the various lids in your life?
• What is your attitude concerning them?
• Are you taking responsibility for them?
• Do you have enough humility and courage to allow
  a lid lifter into your area of need?