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, and a growing family. I remember feeling so overwhelmed and unproductive. When I read the …
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 Leadership”, Kouzes and Posner write about 5 ways that we need to learn to rely …
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 wisdom at the same time we are listening. Regardless of the situation, we will need …
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 get settled into the chair called, “I have that solved!”. A leader has to be …
This morning I was sitting with a new friend in Nepal, and we were talking about how having a successful partnership is like having a successful marriage. It takes work to nurture a partership and it takes work to deepen a relationship. This doesn’t just “happen”. We need to be intentional in working towards …
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 room or restaurant, I have to position myself close to someone so I can catch …
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 talk, tell stories, laugh, tell insider jokes and basically ignore us. We tried to engage …
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 something you have wanted to do, but you didn’t think you had time, may never …
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 just turn off the demands and opportunities that are around us. We tend to run …
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 could see you as being so important that you are “so” busy? I remember years …