A key aspect of leadership is the ability to spot potential leaders. This process helps if a leader has a pipeline of potential leaders. It should consist of people who are in and moving through each of these 4 stages (You can read more about these areas in The 4 Stages Of A Leadership Pipeline [...]
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How To Build On Your Strengths: Marcus Buckingham
This short clip shares that we need to take responsibility to find and become better in our strengths. Question: How do you develop and stay within your strength?
READ MORE »We Can Only Be Good At a Few Things
C.S. Lewis is right when he said, “Every person is composed of a few themes.” We should only dabble in every area until we have found our major theme areas. But what can often happen is that we continue to dabble and be in many areas even though we have found the few areas we [...]
READ MORE »The 4 Stages Of A Leadership Pipeline
A key to effective leadership and building a strong organization is having a leadership pipeline. One of the top advisers to business leaders, author Ram Charan, says, “Many fail to recognize that developing other leaders is, or at least should be, a major part of every leader’s job. They don’t start until it is far [...]
READ MORE »Failure Can Hurt Everyone
Failure happens within every organization and business. When failure does happen it can negatively impact the people and the company. One such incident happened at the beginning of this month when parts of Arizona, San Diego, and parts of Mexico where without power due to one person, which affected over 1.4 million people. Though this [...]
READ MORE »Questions To Ask Your People As A New Team Leader
When you start a new position as a leader with new team members, one of the first things you should do is to connect with each individual. This allows you to start building a relationship and trust with them. It will also give you an idea of who they are and their role on the [...]
READ MORE »Leader’s Getting Help From God
“Dear God, so far today I have done ok. I haven’t gossiped, lost my temper, been selfish, greedy, or over indulged. God I’m very thankful for that. But in a few minutes God I’m going to get out of bed. And from then on I’m probably going to need a lot more help.” Before anything [...]
READ MORE »4 Points On A Christian Leader’s Talents
The below story found in Matthew 25 has 4 points on a Christian leader’s talents. For it is like a man who was about to take a long journey, and he called his servants together and entrusted them with his property. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one–to each in [...]
READ MORE »Benefits Of Pausing
I recently read Presentations In Action which offered some insightful points on communicating to an audience. One of the chapters shares these benefits of pausing, Eliminates unwords, such as “um” and “ah”. Enables you to take a breath. Gives you time to think. Gives your audience time to absorb. I personally have seen the benefits [...]
READ MORE »What To Focus On When Criticized
A couple days ago I read a proverbs which says, “If you ignore criticism, you will end in poverty and disgrace; if you accept criticism you will be honored.” Proverbs 13:18 I first need to point out that being criticized is never fun and always hurts in some form. But like this Proverbs says we [...]
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