I remember when I was assigned to read the book entitled, “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.” by Stephen R. Covey. I was a student in grad school and was struggling with balancing my graduate studies, a full-time job,…
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Learning to Work SMARTER
Posted in Leadership Coaching, Personal Leadership Tagged with: Covey, grow, learn to listen, listen, priorities, Seven Habits, sharpen the saw, work smarter
You Can’t Do It Alone
Why do we keep believing that as LEADERS we can do it on our own? We can’t! There’s no way for us to create great impact, sustainability and process without the help of others. In the book, “The Truth About…
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Basic Coaching Habit #6: Prayerful Discernment
34 Leaders from 10 countries joined together for four days and developed these “Basic Coaching Habits for anyone asked to be a “coach”. When coaching someone, we must: #6) Prayerful Discernment. Learn to pray and ask for clarity, patience and…
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#6) Learn to be Flexible
The Seven Goals of Success Sixth Goal: Learn to be Flexible Adjust, adjust, adjust is the name of leadership today. Right after that is change, change, change. Things are moving at such a speed today that a leader can never…
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Be a Better Listener
I have some hearing loss in my right ear as a result of blowing off too many fireworks when I was a kid. As I get older, I’ve learned some things about how I “listen”: When I’m in a crowded…
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Be an “ASKER”
I remember sitting around a large table with a group of people. My wife and I were the invited guests, we were in a noisy restaurant, and after our meal, we were sitting and listening to a lot of people…
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Today Only Comes Once.
You do realize, don’t you, that while you are reading this, the words you said a hour ago can never be pulled back or corrected. You can try, but they are gone. And, that opportunity you had yesterday to do…
Stop and Listen
One of the hardest thing for a leader to do is to “stop”. We have conditioned ourselves to move at a certain pace, and it’s hard to slow down, it’s hard to take a deep breath, and it’s hard to…
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Living Busy
Have you ever walked up to someone and ask them how they are and they respond, “busy”? Do you immediately think that they must be really important? Do you wish you could be busy too? Do you wish that others…
