The foreword of Inspire was written by 15 CEOs who cannot speak highly enough about how these ideas changed their lives and organizations. The need to inspire has never been greater than it is today, when many people feel afraid, cynical, and resigned. Inspiring people in the 1990s was an entirely different proposition; people were lighter, more optimistic, filled with a sense of abundance. Yet people yearn to be inspired more than ever; the need for inspiration has never been greater, especially at work—but where can you find it? The best that most companies can do is try to motivate their people with traditional leadership models. In his international bestselling book, Inspire! What Great Leaders Do, Dr. Lance Secretan offers an inspiring alternative, a tested way to learn how to inspire from within one’s self and use this self-knowledge to inspire others. It starts with the individual and it does transform organizations. This transformational process is Higher Ground Leadership®.
The dictionary defines motivation as providing someone with a motive; to move, impel, induce, incite. By contrast, to inspire means to infuse with an encouraging or exalting influence, to animate, to stimulate by a divinity, a genius, an idea or a passion. The word is derived from the Latin root spirare, meaning to breathe, to give life, to express. Inspiring is other-focused while motivating is self-focused. Inspiring serves you where motivating serves me. The difference in organizations is palpable: inspired people arouse the hearts of others—employees and colleagues, customers and suppliers—and this translates directly into improved business performance.
Inspire! What Great Leaders Do teaches business leaders how to inspire superior performance by speaking to the inner lives and deeper needs of employees and anyone with whom you have a business relationship, and by aligning their desires with your organization’s cause—rather than seducing them with carrots that speak only to their outer lives and superficial selves. Secretan’s goals are lofty, but the approach is practical. Inspire! is full of proven methods for connecting with the soul, the real self. It provides valuable guidance for awakening the passion of others and a host of stories that illustrate how inspiring leaders have transformed their business environment from places of fear and resignation to powerhouses of effective performance.
!nspire!: The Why-Be-Do Self-enquiry Workshop
Stand in the presence of someone who has a deep, inner knowing of their purpose in life, someone who is very clear about Why they are here on Earth, how they will Be while they are here and what they have been sent here to Do . Experience their energy. You are standing in front of an inspiring person.
All great leadership is personal leadership. Great leadership is not trained or modeled. It is lived. Others see the inspiration that emanates from great leaders—it comes from their soul.
The purpose of this workshop is to change and inspire your life, to slow the personality down long enough for the Soul to be heard, to help you ask important questions, thus creating the opportunity for your Soul to become an equal life-partner with your personality, to remind you of Carl Jung’s observation that the birth of the Self is always a defeat for the ego. This workshop will help you to ask the right questions that will lead you to a breakthrough in self-discovery, through the use of reflection and some tools that will refresh your awareness of how you want to be in this universe. Your life, if lived to its full potential, will become another miracle in the Universe.
What you will learn:
Defining Your Destiny – Why Are You Here?
Defining Your Cause – How Will You Be? What Will You Stand For?
Defining Your Calling – What Will You Do?
Aligning Destiny, Cause and Calling
Inspiring Others to Inspire You – Living the CASTLE Principles
These will lead to the definition of your own personal Destiny, Cause and Calling – the “Why-Be-Do”.
