I was reading a tip sheet from our website on Unhealthy Partnerships and was thinking more about why it’s so hard for partnerships to be healthy and successful. It comes down to one thing: selfishness Selfish is defined as: “Lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one’s own personal profit or pleasure.” Even Michael Eisner, former …
Strategic partnerships are essential for most organizations. We’ve learned that we don’t have to know how to do everything, but we do need to know how to develop partnerships with people and organizations that can accomplish things that we can’t. This then helps us focus on our strengths and stay in alignment to our gifts, …
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: #8) Be Engaged. When we are with the other person, we need to be there with our eyes on him. Listening, and thinking together. Minimize the …
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 …
It takes “the art of caring” to mentor someone! Care can be defined as: #1) Serious attention; solicitude; heed; caution: she devotes great care to her work The act of caring takes commitment and devotion. You can’t just care when you feel like it, or when you have the time. Caring for the development of …
Most of us have not been formally mentored. We have not had a great, successful leader take us under their wing and teach us to lead. They have not gone step by step through the various situations we will encounter and show us how to get through them. Most of us have learned by watching! …
I was recently sitting in a leadership training course in South Africa and a young leader asked me, “What does it really look like to have a mentor?” He didn’t ask me what it meant to “be” a mentor, he asked what it was like to “have” one. I realize that many leaders have never …
I’m reminded today of the story in Mark 2 when Jesus heals the paralytic man that was brought to him to be healed. This guys friends couldn’t get in the front door, so they climbed up on the roof, cut a hole in it, and lowered their friend down to Jesus to be healed. Jesus …