Do you know what the average person spent on Black Friday weekend? The National Retail Federation estimates 247 million shoppers visited online and bricks-and-mortar stores during the long weekend, spending an average of $423 each for a total of $59.1 billion! How long do you think those purchases will last? Toys--last maybe 30 days; clothes--one season; electronic... Continue Reading →
Is gratitude truly beneficial, or is it simply a nice virtue our mothers taught us? You may recall a similar experience... “What do you say?” Mom gently spurred me on when, as a little child, someone gave me a gift. Of course, “Thank you!” was always the proper response. Is expressing thanks an appropriate response... Continue Reading →
This is a reblog from Andrea Buczynski. She has some great thoughts on encouragement. Who needs encouraging? The answer might surprise you...Read on.... Thank you for coming. I wish my director came to visit me. I was climbing into my car after a visit to one of our local leaders when I heard that last... Continue Reading →
Ray has two great thoughts in this his blog. First, he emphasizes the importance of strengthening the core of our leadership. This makes sense in the physical realm. When I have had back or neck problems, the real problem was due to weak core. When I worked on strengthening my core, many other physical ailments went away. The core of our leadership is our identity/security and our spirituality. If we work on those areas, our other leadership ailments almost self-adjust.
Second, Ray highlights the need to be differentiated leaders-similar to what Cloud refers to as healthy boundaries. A differentiated leader can separate his or her emotional being from that of their followers while still remaining connected. The leader does not get caught in the emotional fray. He or she takes personal responsibility for their emotional health and requires others on the team to do the same. Ray explains this in more in detail in his blog. Give it a read and sign up to get his updates. He has keen insight into leadership, personal development and culture.
The most dynamic leaders I know are also the most interesting people. Is that a coincidence? I don’t think so. Developing leaders is a multifaceted process that has much more to do with helping leaders develop who they are than it does developing a technical understanding of leadership.
Growth as a leader is multifaceted because people do not develop along a linear path of skill sets that build capacity. Instead leaders simultaneously develop technical skills, interpersonal styles and conceptual ability in a complex interaction between their internal sense of purpose, the context in which they lead (i.e., the relational dynamics of the organization) and the varying demands of the market place for product.
Identifying the factors of development along linear paths, as I have done in the diagram above, helps define the components of a leader’s development and illustrates that simply learning new skills is not the most significant aspect of…
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As leaders we need to be aware of our hearts. Our emotional state will often reveal where our heart is at. If we pay attention to warning signs, we can make self adjustments. When we disregard the warning signs, we do damage to ourselves and those around us. Terry Morgan has identified three warning signs in the life of anyone who has led people. You may have other ones to add to the list…Read on…
Traveling through New Mexico, we stopped at a rest stop, and we were immediately on our guard, thanks to the “Beware of Rattlesnakes!” warning sign posted nearby.
At my new job here in Orlando, each day I pass by this “Caution Gators!” warning sign, and I walk by with a much more alert peripheral vision.
There are many different dangers present depending on the place… depending on the circumstances… depending on the person.
A warning sign increases my awareness of a potential threat, and it often causes me to change my behavior in order to avoid injury or damage.
Most often when I think about warnings, I am concerned about external threats to my safety, but when I thought about those signs this week, I realized that there are plenty of dangers that threaten my internal well-being also… threats against inner peace, productivity, and healthy relationships… and I can…
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