Dealing With An Attitude of Entitlement
How do you Deal with an Attitude of Entitlement? Saturday started normal enough until I started feeling angry at other family members because I didn’t get my way. Yeah, that’s me, the 50-year-old life coach dealing with a personal...
Read moreWhat Do We Learn From Failures
What Do We Learn From Failures Think for a moment about a failure from your life (maybe your failure or you were the collateral damage from someone else’s failure). What pain did you experience from the failure, and what...
Read moreLeaders Are Vulnerable
Leaders Are Vulnerable My nerves were racing. I could feel my heart beating in my chest. What’s going on with me? As I was about to lead a process group with some local counselors and coaches. I have led...
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Leaders Take The Next Step
Leaders Take The Next Step Have you ever heard of analysis paralysis (AP)? It’s a character symptom where leaders cannot make decisions quickly. Instead, they think about the decision, analyze all perspectives, and second-guess themselves. As Stephen Covey says,...
Read moreLeaders Guide the Vision
Who Creates the Vision of an Organization? A misconception in leadership is that the leader MUST come up with the vision for the organization. Vision developing or creating might happen from time to time. However, in the best organizations,...
Read moreLeaders Give Freedom
Think of a time in your life, recently or in the past, when you worked for a boss who micro-managed you. How effective were you in your role and accomplishing your responsibilities? How safe was your working relationship with...
Read moreLeaders Build Trust
Why is Trust Important? Trust is the glue that keeps relationships together and moving forward. Without trust, relationships fall apart, grind to a stop, explode, implode, fizzle out etc. You get the picture. Trust is vital to relationships. But...
Read moreLeaders Have An Identity
Leadership Identity Characteristics What do you do when you look in the mirror and realize you hate the person who is looking at you? As an adult, you realize you have an identity issue, and you better solve it...
Read moreLeaders Connect
“Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. There may have been a time when leaders could command commitment, but those times are long past.” (Kouzes and Posner) Leadership today (in...
Read moreLeaders Say Thank You
The Super-Trooper Award During the summer of 1993 (just after my Freshman year of college), I served as a camp counselor in Northern Michigan. I had a blast that summer serving God, doing ministry with about 50 other college...
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