SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm: "A personal leadership discovery platform"

By Stephen Lyall Engels

The New Success Paradigm: "A personal leadership discovery platform," the associated workbook, and the unique SLEGNE ELS Leadership App Workbook App for the iPad, form an exciting personal leadership discovery platform that offers you something very special at any stage of your life. 

This is an invitation to lead a dyna

• Language: English
• Publisher: ELS Management Sàrl
• Release date: Oct 31, 2022
• ISBN: 9782970149118

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Acknowledgements

Special thanks go to the wonderful people and teams of people who provided me with encouragement, or inspiration, or who lent me their active support in bringing SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, its SLEGNEELS Workbook and the unique SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad to their completion.

These wonderful people and teams of people include Catherine, Julia, Damien, Megan, Lisa, Linda, June, Nicolas, Colin, Zoé, others in my family, many of my precious friends, my skilled editors, my highly creative and disciplined book creation project team, my IT project team, my product development team, my services development team, my communications team, my sales team, my business development team, my F&A team, and my legal team.

You are all truly amazing people whose encouragement, inspiration, or active support has been invaluable to the realization of my exciting book project.

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Foreword

In collectively striving to build a better, more sustainable world, the promotion of the importance of good leadership must clearly be one of our top priorities.

In creating a vision of the type of young leaders we collectively would like to see emerging in the 21st century, I believe we urgently need a new leadership paradigm as a model for the development and constant renewal of our young leaders.

There have been far too many examples of dramatic, or traumatic leadership failures during the 20th century and the first part of the 21st century, and I believe that in hindsight, we need to seriously question the ways in which our leaders have been developed until now, in all sectors of our local and global communities and societies. We also need to look for a new, forward-looking leadership development model that is likely to bring us more successes in the coming years and decades, as time is rapidly becoming a more and more scarce resource.

I firmly believe that our rapidly changing world calls for the emergence of a new model for leadership excellence that is powered by personal leadership, which is what the book you are now reading is all about.

SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm is an integral part of a creative personal leadership discovery platform that offers a dynamic approach to leadership education.

It can convincingly be argued that one of the most precious elements in any person’s life is a healthy level of self-esteem.

Self-esteem is a vital element of personal leadership, as well as in building leadership excellence and in feeling empowered to lead others.

Self-esteem allows one to feel good about one’s self, without being threatening to others in any way, and to see the good that is in others, without feeling threatened by them in any way.

When one enhances one’s self-esteem, one goes through a process of self-discovery.

I anticipate that in learning and in actively applying some of the personal leadership insights that are embedded in SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm to your life, you will very likely enhance the way you see yourself and progressively elevate your personal potential.

My own life has been profoundly impacted by a continually growing awareness, knowledge and understanding of the role of self-esteem in personal leadership, as well as in other forms of leadership. I owe a large part of this awareness, knowledge and understanding to the work of the late Dr Nathaniel Branden.

Nathaniel Branden’s Six Pillars of Self-esteem is one of the most wonderful books I have ever read. It changed the way I see my life and the way I see the lives of all the people who I get the privilege to interact with.

It also changed the way I see the numerous possibilities that life offers me, as well as the many people who I am in contact with on a frequent basis, or on an occasional basis.

This foreword is a personal dedication and an expression of heart-felt appreciation and thanks in memory of the late, great Dr Nathaniel Branden.

Nathaniel was the trigger and inspiration for me to start researching and writing about personal leadership and leadership excellence.

Nathaniel Branden’s wisdom in relation to developing one’s self-esteem led to my passion for understanding how leadership excellence and responsible leadership really work, and this has allowed me to progressively discover more and more of their inherent magic!

Finally, I would like to acknowledge the sources of supportive references that are included in the various chapters of SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, as well as in a reference section near the end of the book.

Positioning SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm

Finding, creating, or imagining and successfully implementing sound personal leadership solutions that work for you, could change your life for the better in a dramatically positive way, or in a progressively positive way; and as a knock-on effect, it could potentially have a positive impact on the lives of people who are close to you.

The following trio of ELS Products:

SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm,

SLEGNEELS Workbook for the New Success Paradigm, and

SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad.

together with 7x online SLEGNEELS Leadership Education Modules, form an integrated personal leadership development platform that combines leadership development with personal development.

This trio of products has been carefully designed and created as part of an integrated personal leadership discovery platform. It is a novel self-discovery platform that is easy to use, fun to apply, and it could help you to rapidly achieve more success or enrich your life in various ways.

In using this dynamic self-discovery platform, you can prepare yourself for your future through continual self-improvement; whereby you sow the seeds for your future successes, be they in your personal life, or in your private life, or in your professional life, or in your business life.

The three products are intended to be used in parallel. They are designed to offer you valuable support that helps you find, create, or imagine, and successfully implement your own unique personal leadership solutions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge

Albert Einstein

SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm is a highly innovative personal leadership development system that is all about progressively making your life more fulfilling, whereby you continuously find, create, or imagine, and successfully implement new possibilities in your life, despite the various challenges that life continues to throw at you (e.g. The numerous challenges induced by the global viral-pandemic that led to various lock-down situations across the globe in 2020 and in 2021).

My best guess is that there are potentially several things that you would still like to achieve in your life, or in your profession, or in your business. If that is indeed the case, this may be a turning point in helping you get closer to a desired destination, or purpose in your life, or your profession, or your business.

SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm together with its SLEGNEELS Workbook, and the SLEGNEELS LeaderApp application for the iPad introduce a dynamic personal leadership development philosophy.

This philosophy is an open invitation to awaken to the powers of personal leadership (alsocalledself-leadership,or individualleadership).

It is hoped that through an improved sense of awareness, the reader finds himself, or herself in a position of getting to enjoy the experience of leading a life that is unique in various ways.

In SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm you will find cross-references to each of the 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises that are included in your SLEGNEELS Workbook, as well as in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad, and which serve as powerful, self-assessment and personal enhancement tools.

The set of 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises provide you with a dynamic framework for proactively developing and consolidating your thoughts and ideas, whereby you can rapidly enhance the quality of your life personally, or privately, or professionally.

Through periodically, systematically, repeating each of the 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises you will get the opportunity to progressively reflect and continuously develop, refine and enhance your thoughts and actions in a highly dynamic and pro-active way.

The SLEGNEELS Goal System that is included in your SLEGNEELS Workbook and also in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp is a simple, yet practical way of creating and tracking specific goals that play an important role in driving the various successes and changes that you would like to see happening in your life, whether on a personal level, a private level, a professional level, or a business level.

The integrated personal leadership discovery platform that is offered by SLEGNEELS The New SuccessParadigm when used together with the associated SLEGNEELS Workbook, and the SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad is designed to push the boundaries of personal leadership, that has a direct relationship to the expression of your personal leadership excellence.

Something that could also be extremely valuable for you is to find and adopt a paradigm for success and constant renewal which helps you to reach-out for the various successes, satisfaction, and fulfilment that you desire in your life.

In Part 3 of SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, you will discover a unique paradigm for success and continuous renewal.

In summary, SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm represents a great opportunity to re-shape your future, and it could potentially also play an important role in positively influencing the future of some of the people who you might possibly have the privilege to lead.

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Encouragement for Your Sustained Personal Growth

For more than two decades, I dedicated a significant number of hours of my personal time every day towards developing the personal leadership insights that are embedded in SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, the associated SLEGNEELS Workbook and the SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook App.

My work was inspired by two prominent public figures, namely:

The late great Dr Nathaniel Branden with the precious insights included in his Six Pillars of Self-esteem, an outstanding book, and

Deepak Chopra with his wise reflection that:

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

I wish you a lot of success in your life and encourage you to actively use SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, the associated SLEGNEELS Workbook, and the SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook App as a precious trio of resources for building yourself a unique personal leadership development program.

Stephen Engels

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Getting Started with Your Self-Discovery Program

In your SLEGNEELS Workbook, as well as in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook App for the i-Pad, you will find the following:

A set of 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises that serve as powerful success tools for your self-assessment and personal enhancement.

and

The SLEGNEELS Goal System that is a user-friendly success tool for tracking your personal goals, your private goals, and your professional or business goals.

These highly interactive success tools are an integral part of the unique SLEGNEELS personal leadership experience.

When using your SLEGNEELS Workbook, or your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp, please keep referring-back to your SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm Book, as the latter contains valuable insights into various aspects of personal leadership, interspersed with cross-references to the 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises, as well as to the SLEGNEELS Goal System.

In this way you will have the full picture and context of each SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercise at your fingertips.

There are two key steps in the self-discovery, learning process of SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm that are central to its effective implementation in your life, namely:

The Creation of Awareness—Whereby you progressively build an acute awareness of the personal leadership insights that are woven into each chapter of SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, its SLEGNEELS Workbook and the SLEGNEELS LeaderApp, respectively,

and

Sustained Practical Application—Whereby you make a commitment to yourself to actively apply these precious personal leadership insights to your personal life, or private life, or professional life, or business life in a practical way on an ongoing basis.

Tips on the Unique Self-Discovery Process

Both your SLEGNEELS Workbook and your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad are designed to help you pro-actively apply the various personal leadership insights in SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm to your life.

In using your SLEGNEELS Workbook, or your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad, you will very likely stimulate a sense of awareness, as well as a sense of gratitude of what you already have in your life.

In your SLEGNEELS Workbook and in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad you will discover the SLEGNEELS Goal System that has been designed to help you create and track goals and mini-goals, which play a pivotal role in driving the successes that you desire in your life.

By using your SLEGNEELS Workbook and your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad in parallel to reading through SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, you can continually refine your unique meaning of success, and in so doing have a positive impact on your destiny.

Ways to Sustain Your Self-Discovery Process

Periodically assess your progress in applying SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm’s unique personal leadership discovery platform to your life.

Refine your learning process by repeating the following two key personal leadership education steps:

i. Creation of Awareness—Progressively build a strong awareness of the personal leadership insights that are woven into each chapter of SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, its SLEGNEELS Workbook and the unique SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad.

ii. Sustained Practical Application—On an ongoing basis, actively apply these personal leadership insights to your personal life, or private life, or business life, or professional life.

Create and track your goals, mini-goals and related tasks using your SLEGNEELS Goal System in your SLEGNEELS Workbook, or in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad.

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Using the SLEGNEELS Goal System

The first six letters of the acronym SLEGNEELS are the reverse spelling of the family name ENGELS and the last three letters stand for Effective Leadership Solutions."

In practical terms, to achieve the successes that you desire in your life, some of your perhaps already existing large individual goals can possibly be broken down into smaller, related, and actionable goals or mini-goals which incrementally contribute towards achieving the successes that you desire.

There is a saying that:

If you want to eat an elephant you first need to cut it into small pieces.

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Review each of the large individual goals that you have set yourself in the different areas of your life and assess whether they could perhaps be broken down into smaller, actionable goals or mini-goals.

The SLEGNEELS Goal System is designed to help you develop, plan and track to completion the successes that you desire in your life. The system is intended to help you in planning and achieving the meaningful and actionable goals, or mini-goals that you set yourself for your personal life, your private life and your professional life, or your business life.

The SLEGNEELS Goal System is an important success tool that will help you to focus your efforts on what is most important for you in for your personal life, your private life and your professional life, or business life.

Remember that in competing with yourself rather than competing with others, you get to create much more meaningful goals and mini-goals that you can focus on achieving in your life.

Track and follow-up on your goals, mini-goals and any related tasks using the SLEGNEELS Goal System, and in so doing observe how over time, they incrementally contribute to your achievement of success.

Make it a habit of yours to regularly verify the progress you are making in achieving each of your goals, mini-goals and related tasks using the SLEGNEELS Goal System.

For example, adopt the habit whereby at:

The start, or end of your day,

or at

The start, or the end of your week,

you systematically review and update the results you have achieved in relation to each of your goals, mini-goals and related tasks.

By systematically doing a regular follow-up on the progress you are making with your goals, mini-goals and related tasks, you are much more likely to achieve the successes that you are thirsting for in your life.

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PART 1

Raising Your Level of Awareness

In Part 1: Raising your Level of Awareness you will find cross-references to 14x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises that are included in your SLEGNEELS Workbook and in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad.

Create New Possibilities in your Life

As you start to discover Parts 1, 2 & 3 of your personal leadership platform be sure that in parallel to actively using your SLEGNEELS Workbook, and /or your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad, you also periodically refer-back to SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm.

In this way you will put into context the 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises that are designed to help you find or create new possibilities in your life in a practical way, in parallel to using the SLEGNEELS Goal System.

As you work your way through each of the 27x SLEGNEELS Dynamic Exercises in your SLEGNEELS Workbook, or in your SLEGNEELS LeaderApp, you will raise your awareness of the power inside you, to progressively change and improve various aspects of your personal life, or private life, or professional life, or business life.

Such a heightened sense of awareness could dramatically change the filters through which you view the challenges and opportunities in the various areas of your life. Through changing your filters, you change your perception of what life has to offer you.

A sharper sense of awareness that things in your personal life, or your private life, or your business life, or your professional life could perhaps be different and somehow better, might become a catalyst that inspires you to lead a more fulfilling life.

An Invitation

In applying SLEGNEELS The New Success Paradigm, its SLEGNEELS Workbook and the SLEGNEELS LeaderApp Workbook Application for the iPad to your life, you are welcome to share a challenge, success, insight, or suggestion along your journey of discovery.

Just send an email to:

[e-mail]

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Reflecting on the Ages

First there was the ice age…

Then the stone age…

Then the bronze age…

Then the iron age…

Then the dark ages…

Then the middle ages…

Then the digital age ushered itself in…

Then suddenly there was the age of the COVID-19 global pandemic!

Déjà vu!

For some people, the experience of the COVID-19 age was refreshing in a déja vu kind of way, in that the causative virus effectively turned back the hands of time in that, depending on when one was born, one may have got to more deeply appreciate the slower, more human way of life that existed before the onset of the trend toward instant gratification and the frenzy of the digital age; and that in some respects returned the world to where it was previously at…

In this context, reflect on the following saying:

History repeats itself!

Choosing and Building Your Career

Bradley’s Job of his Dreams

(- a short fictional anecdote)

Over the past few months, Bradley and I had been building a friendship, while chatting about a diverse range of topics, including what he saw as the next move in his fledgling career.

Bradley had obtained a degree in economics and a post graduate diploma in international marketing.

Deep-down, he aspired to join the automotive industry to develop his career and grow his professional expertise.

However, I sensed that Bradley needed some inspiration, or coaxing, or encouragement, before he would make the next move that could potentially set his fledgling career in motion. So, I subtly suggested to him that someone in my personal network might potentially be in a position to help him find a job in the automotive industry.

Bradley quickly warmed to the idea of me reaching out to my personal network to see if they could possibly help him in some way.

For my part I committed to reach-out to some of my contacts so as to understand if through one of them, I could possibly help Bradley land a job in the automotive industry.

A few days later, I reached out to