Category: Leadership Development
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Developing the Goal-Setting Muscle
In a previous post, we looked at how leaders are those that make change happen. Before you can make change happen, you have to define which change you would like to make. Goals Define Which Change You Want to Make For the last 3-5 years, I have tried many different methods of looking at goals.…
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The Value of Consistency
Recently I learned a lesson in the gym the hard way, overdoing it is not worth it. I had been progressing with adding weight to the barbell over a few months. About four weeks ago, I was feeling frisky, so I bumped it up 15 lbs higher than the previous time I did that lift. Big…
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The Reason You Don’t Achieve Your Goals And What To Do About It
What is something you dream about accomplishing? What is something, that if it’s the only thing you accomplish in the next year, it will blow your mind!? What is keeping you from achieving these long-term goals? According to Charles Duhigg’s book Smarter Faster Better, our preoccupation with completing short-term objectives stifles our aspirations. Put another…
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How to achieve what matters to you
As work has changed over the last few decades, productivity or time management strategies have also gone through transformations. Steven Covey has documented a few in his book Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. These include writing to-do lists, setting priorities, using a colander. Other books such as Getting Things Done by Robert Allen and…
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How To Grow In Discernment
Each of us has three main relationships that we need to be in touch with; our relationship with God, others and ourselves. As we develop relationships in these three areas, our awareness and discernment improve. Of these three relationships, the most overlooked, in my opinion, is our relationships with ourselves. For most of us, we…
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Palm Sunday and the Leadership Paradox
When you think about leadership, what character traits do you think of? I see good leaders as assured, confident, strong, authoritative, inspirational, enthusiastic and challenging…come, let’s take the hill! But for too long strong leaders have shown themselves to be: domineering, forceful, manipulative, controlling or overbearing. What does Palm Sunday show about leadership? Palm Sunday…