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R RAVINDRA KUMAR

R Ravindra Kumar
Mindful Speaker, Trainer and Spiritual Life Coach.
R Ravindra Kumar has 30 years of experience working in worlds largest Life Insurance
Company LIC OF INDIA in India and abroad at Fiji Islands. Presently working as Regional
Manager in LIC OF INDIA.
Favored With Psychic Abilities, Ravi has Honed Him To A Level Where He Can Heal And
Transform Lives. Engaged With His Profound Occult Knowledge And A Powerful And Selfless
Will To Serve, He Extensively Conducts Healing Sessions, Workshops And Offers Remedies
For The Karmic Deficits.
As a Coach, Facilitator, Manager and Trainer, He has been Helping Professionals
Achieve their Career Goals since the 1999.. He is having much passion and interest
coaching to Sales Executive, and Management professionals from corporations, as he
is working with employees from all levels of organizations and Internationally Educated
is working with employees from all levels of organizations and Internationally Educated
Professionals, as well as students and graduates from colleges and universities.
Throughout his career, he worked with clients of outplacement and career transition
firms, colleges, and community employment centers. In his work, has provided
Coaching and consulting to clients of all levels of organizations - Vice President to
Employees beginning their careers.
Widely travelled Sri Ravindra Kumar is a multilingual leader and Spritual Mentor with a
wide experience in multi-cultural and global environment. Reading, music,creative
presentations and development of human resources are his areas of special interest.
“How would your life change if you could tap into your full potential? What one thing do
want most for your life but feel unable to reach it? How would you like to set goals and
create a blueprint or roadmap to not only reach your goal, but sustain it? Come and
Discuss with R Ravindra Kumar He will Show you You Can do in life.”

1. Know more than others
2. Do more than others
William Shakespeare
7
26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616
2. Do more than others
3. Expect less than others!
rravindrakumar@yahoo.com

Leadership is a Choice,
Not a Position
• Leadership is a skill that can be learned
through a process
through a process
• Everyone takes leadership in life at some
point, but forget to notice
• ‘Personal Leadership’ precedes ‘Public
Leadership!’
We would walk through the realization…

Mindfulness in Leadership
• Mindful leadership is based on
a strong foundation of
resilience. It strengthens the
ability of leaders to deal with
various things and changes. It
various things and changes. It
also relates to the ability to
investigate, innovate, and find
new ways from a shared
perspective

• Mindful leadership is
about the flexibility of
thought and action. It is
also about to end the
autopilot behavior and
autopilot behavior and
habits and being the best
that can be done at any
given moment between
mind and leadership and
focus on the moment and
realize it
• .

• Mindfulness is the basic human
ability to be fully present,
aware of where we are and
what we’re doing, and not
what we’re doing, and not
overly reactive or overwhelmed
by what’s going on around us.
Mindfulness won’t change the facts of what is
happening in the world but it can change how
you cope with the uncertainty and that can make
all the difference. Mindfulness is research-based
and easy to practice at Business by Leader

• Mindful leadership is positively related to overall job
performance and also related to employee’s welfare and
shows the potential role to lead organizations with
mindfulness so leaders can organize themselves and
their teams and organizations more effectively
their teams and organizations more effectively

• Mindful Leader is not obscure or exotic.
• Mindfulness in Leadership has the potential to become a transformative
social phenomenon.
• Mindfulness practice cultivates universal human qualities and does not require
anyone to change their beliefs. Everyone can benefit and it’s easy to learn.
• Mindfulness is more than just a practice. It brings awareness and caring into
everything we do—and it cuts down needless stress. Even a little makes our
everything we do—and it cuts down needless stress. Even a little makes our
lives better.
• We don’t have to take mindfulness on faith. Both science and experience
demonstrate its positive benefits for our health, happiness, work, and
relationships.
• Mindful Leader sparks innovation. As we deal with our world’s increasing
complexity and uncertainty, mindfulness can lead us to effective, resilient, low-
cost responses to seemingly intransigent problems.

Are Mindful Leader Born
or Made?

Mindful Leadership is a Choice,
Not a Position
• Mindful Leadership is a skill that can be learned
through a process
• Everyone takes Mindful Leadership in life at some
• Everyone takes Mindful Leadership in life at some
point, but forget to notice
• ‘Personal Mindful Leadership’ precedes ‘Public
Mindful Leadership!’
We would walk through the realization…

What is Mindfulness in
Leadership…???
• To influence and guide people
• To initiate
• To make decisions
• To solve problems
• To make team reach goals
And much more….

Why Should You Become Mindful
Leader???
• To change what is not acceptable to you
• To make things happen
• To create the unique path for yourself.. Be the
boss!
• To create favorable circumstances
• It is like you create music and everyone plays
instruments..

Mindful Leadership
• Recent events have left many feeling anxious,
worried, and unsettled. With worldwide news
regarding the virus, COVID-19, changing so quickly
each day, it can be easy to allow these emotions to
dominate our daily lives. We resort to checking social
dominate our daily lives. We resort to checking social
media every few minutes for the latest updates,
hoping to keep ourselves connected to the society
from which we feel so isolated. We may feel as
though we’ve lost control. This loss of control and
uncertainty about what is to come can cause added
stress which impacts our physical and mental health.
• It directly have impact on DECISION MAKING

How to
become a Mindful Leader?

Present ABC of Leadership
• A : Accountability
• B : Blame
• C : Chalta Hai, Casual

Mindful Leadership is about
Perception…
• Do you see things as they are? Or as you are?
• Story if Island where no one wore shoes
• Develop Perception that ‘World is full of
• Develop Perception that ‘World is full of
opportunities’ and ‘I am full of Potential’
• Only your own perception and your own
mindset limits you..

Mindful Leadership is Developing Self
Image
• Create ‘I Can’ Self
Image
• You cannot rise above
your self image
• Believe that you are
• Believe that you are
unique in all creation;
nowhere on Earth is
there another like you
• Low self image
produces negative
attitudes and hampers
development

Mindful Leadership is Persistence
• Be persistent to break the habits that hurt
you and develop that strengthen you
• Let not failure or mistakes stop you…
• Let not failure or mistakes stop you…
S
(Succes
s)
F
(Failure)
NS
(Not
Success)

Most important thing to remember Know your
strengths and Leader as per your strengths!

• Furthermore, in the practice of mindful leadership, the ability to develop
focus by the leader by directing himself is always on the attention these
days and currently on carrying out his daily activities so that he can realize
what is being done without anxiety and concern. This effort is to bring calm
within. By being mindfulness for a longer period of time, the leader can
develop concentration and be more focused. The essential thing in the
mindfulness dimension is for leaders to develop focus as part of directing
the welfare of their followers

Create a Mindful Leader
Vision
• What is the purpose
of my life?
• What do I want to
leave behind?
have? (Possessions)
become? (Position)
• What do I want to be?
(Person)

In Addition… Mindful
LeaderShip
• Leadership is keeping commitment
• Leadership is Time Management
• Leadership is Making Decisions
• Leadership is Delegation
• Leadership is Risk Taking and Courage
• Leadership is Managing Relations with Team
Members

This was about Personal Mindful
Leadership ………
When it comes to Public
Mindful Leadership….

Mindfulness Practices
• Mindfulness practices affect every area of leadership in a
certain way because it increases self-awareness, attention
control, other aspects of mental functioning, and everything
we do or fails to do is the result of how effective the mind
we do or fails to do is the result of how effective the mind
functions. Therefore, increasing self-awareness is the
essential leadership skill we can develop. We can conclude
that the practice of mindfulness is the highest habit of success
and spending time to practice attention is the best investment
we can make because it is positive. It also gives so much
impact on the field of superior leadership

• Great leaders are awake,
aware, and in harmony with
themselves, to others, and
the world around them. They
are committed to their beliefs,
stand firm in their values, and
live a full and passionate life.
live a full and passionate life.
Great leaders and
emotionally intelligent and
their mindfulness: they try to
live mindfulness of self,
others, nature, and society

• The mindfulness leader requires an understanding of
someone's internal compass. Mindfulness allows a leader to
respond to situations as they arise to respond to the reality of
constant change with calm and focus. It also helps the
leaders to have the presence of mind to deal with the reality
of any situation and a leader whose mindfulness is apparent
in his communication. Those they lead to know that
decisions are made from places with awareness, integrity,
and courage

A Mindful Leadership is the
one who…
Knows the
Way…
Way…
Shows the
Way…
Goes the Way…

Mindful Leadership
in your Palm ….

A Mindful Leader… with
• Calm, Committed, Happy Healthy
• Needed for Major Trends…..
• Technology…Globalization …..
• Population….Climate ….Energy….
• Population….Climate ….Energy….
Waste…MANAGEMENT
• Scarcity of Time and Attention

Mindful Leaders…
• A Mindful Leader…serve Everyone
• Share Purpose and Value
• It’s Bigger then ONE PERSON
• Mindful Leader Fully Present, aware of
• Mindful Leader Fully Present, aware of
themselves and Impact on others, and
Focus on Achieving the
GOAL OF THE TEAM

• VISUALIZE
• VERBALIZE
• EMOTIONALIZE
YOU WANT TO BE
MINdfUL
LEAdER…………………..
Commanding The GIANT Within
• EMOTIONALIZE
• PRAYERIZE
• ACTIONIZE
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YOU WANT Fulfill YOUR DREAMS
YOU WANT Fulfill YOUR DREAMS
TO ……………
TO ……………
Commanding the Giant Within
Commanding the Giant Within

 Visualize
Visualize

 Verbalize
Verbalize

 Verbalize
Verbalize

 Emotionize
Emotionize

 Prayerize
Prayerize

 Actionize
Actionize

What is Leadership…
• To influence and guide people
• To initiate
• To solve problems
• To make team reach goals
And much more….

Why Should You
Become Leader???
• To change what is not acceptable to you
• To make things happen
boss!
• To create favorable circumstances
• It is like you create music and everyone plays
instruments..

ABC of Leadership
• A : Accountability
• B : Blame
• Attitude

Leadership is about Perception…
• Do you see things as they are? Or
as you are?
• Develop Perception that ‘World is
• Develop Perception that ‘World is
full of opportunities’ and ‘I am full
of Potential’
• Only your own perception and your
own mindset limits you..

Leadership is Developing Self Image
• Create ‘I Can’ Self Image
• You cannot rise above your self image
• Believe that you are unique in all creation;
nowhere on Earth is there another like you
nowhere on Earth is there another like you
• Low self image produces negative attitudes
and hampers development
(Activity: hand wali)

If you think you are a failure, you are;
If you think you can’t, you won’t.
Success is not attempted by every woman or man,
Ultimately it is the one who thinks “I can”.
Ultimately it is the one who thinks “I can”.
If you think you are a success, you are;
If you think you can, you will.
Success is not achieved by a trick or a skill;
Ultimately successful is the one who thinks “I will”.

Leadership is Persistence
• Be persistent to break the habits
that hurt you and develop that
strengthen you
• Let not failure or mistakes stop
you…
S
(Success)
F
(Failure)
NS
(Not
Success)

Create a Vision
• What is the purpose of my life?
• What do I want to leave behind?
• What do I want to have? (Possessions)
• What do I want to become? (Position)
• What do I want to become? (Position)
• What do I want to be? (Person)

Leadership is Listening
• Listen to your own self
• Different situations, one needs to listen
• Liked when you Listen
• Liked when you Listen
• Not all need to be solved but just ……

Leadership is Transparency/Honesty
• Transparency in all Action
• Honesty in all Communication
• It builds …… which is most important in
Leadership
Leadership

In Addition…
• Leadership is keeping commitment
• Leadership is Time Management
• Leadership is Making Decisions
• Leadership is Risk Taking and Courage
• Leadership is traveling unknown path(story of
shoes/island)
• Leadership is Managing Relations with Team
Members

This was about Personal Leadership
When it comes to Public Leadership….
When it comes to Public Leadership….

A Leader is the one who…
Knows the Way…
Shows the Way…
Goes the Way…
*Story of Hat

A Leader is the one…
Who gets into mines with the
workers…
workers…
Servant Leadership

John Maxwell’s 5 Levels of
Leadership
1. Position
2. Permission
3. Production
3. Production
4. People Development
5. Pinnacle

Leadership lessons from
Ganesha

Take Home Messages…
People follow their Kings!
You need power only when you want to hurt.
Otherwise, love is enough to get everything
Otherwise, love is enough to get everything
done!

Homework!
• Initiate a project at home and take lead. Eg.
Saving water, time management, saving
electricity etc.
• Write down your one life experience of
• Write down your one life experience of
Leadership. Analyze the qualities you
demonstrated then and impact it had

Dr. Manoj Shukla [MBA; Ph.D.] 60

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