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Core Beliefs - A Training Game To Understand The Compass For Leadership

Core beliefs are universal beliefs that are held deeply and determine the course of action that an individual takes in his/her life. For instance, if an individual closely holds the belief that every individual is able to excel, then she/he will expect the best from every individual and encourage each one to perform at their very best.

On this page you will find a training game which helps leaders to articulate and clarify the beliefs that they hold.

Rationale for this training game: While all of us have some core beliefs, it is the leader's beliefs and his or her ability to articulate them in action that will lead the team or the organisation to great heights. However, very few leaders - small or big - ever explore their beliefs, evaluate them for rightness, and articulate the right ones in words and actions.

The world is ridden with experiences of failure of a leader to examine and articulate his/her core beliefs. Everytime such a leader has been the cause of mass destruction, terror etc. They have compromised nations/groups of nations by their actions.

More often than not these leaders are too busy protecting their own interests and expanding their circle of influence, not realising that the evaluation and articulation of their core beliefs, would naturally expand their circle of influence.

Evaluated and articulated in words, actions and systems closely held beliefs have become the compass that has steered several leaders to greatness. The greatness of these leaders has transferred either to the nations, organisations or teams that were lead by them. Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela are a few examples.

Training Game - The Test: This test is called the 'Quotes of Famous People'. In this training game you have to guess from the rhetoric quoted the identity of the famous individual who has made these statements. The answers to this training game can be checked against the key on the 'Thank You' page that will appear after you have submitted the test - a training game.

Having submitted the test - a training game, examine your own closely held beliefs and check your actions against them. How many of your actions are an articulation/manifestation of your beliefs and how many of them make your beliefs seem like mere rhetoric - just like the words of some of the personalities from the 'qoutes test'.

Quotes of Famous People - Who said it?
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1. In this hour I pray that the Almighty will give His blessing in the years to come to our work and action, to our judgment and to our strength of resolution, that He may guard us from false pride as from cowardly submission, that He will let us find the right way, which He in His Providence has allotted …, and that He give us always the courage to do right and never to waver or weaken in the face of any force or danger.* 1. In this hour I pray that the Almighty will give His blessing in the years to come to our work and action, to our judgment and to our strength of resolution, that He may guard us from false pride as from cowardly submission, that He will let us find the right way, which He in His Providence has allotted …, and that He give us always the courage to do right and never to waver or weaken in the face of any force or danger.*

2. And I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.* 2. And I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world.*

3. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.* 3. The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states.*

4. Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.* 4. Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.*

5. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. * 5. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. *

6. I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.* 6. I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.*

7. I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God.* 7. I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God.*

8. The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.* 8. The value systems of those with access to power and of those far removed from such access cannot be the same. The viewpoint of the privileged is unlike that of the underprivileged.*

9. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.* 9. There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.*

10. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. * 10. Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world. *

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Having taken the 'quotes test', a training game I am sure you have some reactions. Share them with us through the form below.

Reactions to Answers of Test: Quotes of Famous People
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