Category: Leadership Development

Over the past two decades, the concept of Emotional Intelligence (EQ) has shown to have far-reaching impacts on not only personal health and well-being but also leadership and organizational health. Bessel van der Kolk M.D. wrote a fabulous book; The Body Keeps the Score, which I found to be very helpful in developing self-awareness. For…

Your schedule for the day is probably pretty much set. You have a task list of things you are going to get done. What you are going to do today or tomorrow is, for the most part, set in stone. The activities or meetings for the day won’t change, but the mindset you bring, or…

In the book Boundaries For Leaders, Henry Cloud shares a fascinating story about a study that was done on two different camps of insurance salespeople. More than a thousand insurance agents were given a simple aptitude test to separate each camp on how smart they were. They pitted the smart agents against the one who…

It wasn’t until I read through each of the Gospels of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John in succession, that I realized that most of Jesus’ ministry was healing people, making them well. We talk about Jesus as an amazing teacher without noticing that many of his teachings involved or came after healing or an exorcism.…

The question “why are you insecure?” rose up in my soul when I read Psalm 48. It felt different than “why are you scared?” which comes with a sting of shame that said, “you’re chicken!” God was saying to me in my spirit, “why be insecure? Look at all I have done to keep you…