As leaders, we need to come to grips with the fact that everything is in a process of change continually, as we live life, build, create, sell or … [Read more...]
Success with Significance
Improve your professional relationships with employees, colleagues and customers with structures which foster healthy boundaries, profitably and performance, buy-in and loyalty. Learn how to shift your focus to relational authority and become emotionally intelligent. Experience life broadly, grow personally, spiritually and professionally. Acquire resources for your own personality and strength which will help deepen your faith and overall success in life.
Measurable Outcomes Keep Us on Target
03/22/2012 By Leave a Comment
Setting specific, measurable goals and objectives is key in project management - like planning a road trip, you know where you want to head. You take … [Read more...]
Creative, Innovative Solutions are NOT a Brand
01/19/2012 By Leave a Comment
Branding. This one concept can have the GREATEST impact on your business, but is often tragically overlooked. The term itself is thrown around but is … [Read more...]
Hope Inspiring Leaders
01/12/2012 By Leave a Comment
Hope is one of the greatest gifts that you can give to your team. It is the spark that will help your team to keep going, even in the toughest times. … [Read more...]
It Costs to Care
01/10/2012 By Leave a Comment
For those who would like to build a team in which team members feel cared for, there will be some costs associated. The costs of caring, which can be … [Read more...]
Training to Succeed
12/19/2011 By Leave a Comment
In an ideal world, the people we hire would arrive the first day on the job and we would download everything they need to know through a USB cable in … [Read more...]
Do People Trust You?
12/16/2011 By Leave a Comment
Being trusted involves more than personal integrity. Just because a leader is honest and respectful of others, doesn't mean that they are necessarily … [Read more...]
Building Hope
12/15/2011 By Leave a Comment
We have been talking about the importance of leaders having real hope and how that can help the people in their teams to move ahead with enthusiasm. … [Read more...]
How Stable is your Organization?
12/12/2011 By Leave a Comment
Some organizations, while appearing to be rock solid from the outside, are actually quite fragile and open to instability and possible collapse. We … [Read more...]
Creating a Culture of Care
12/08/2011 By Leave a Comment
This photo (although a little creepy) does represent the traditional organizational structure most widely used in the world. When we look at … [Read more...]
Effective Leaders care about their Team
11/29/2011 By Leave a Comment
Having looked at the importance of trustworthiness in a person's ability to lead others, it is time to look at the second major factor that was found … [Read more...]
Why is Trust so Important?
11/29/2011 By Leave a Comment
In recent years there has been an increasing focus studying the importance of trust in the building of quality organizations. Where there is … [Read more...]
Inspired Living: Meaning
11/22/2011 By Leave a Comment
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing; the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to … [Read more...]
Can you be Trusted?
11/17/2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the core foundations of effective leadership is trustworthiness. All around the world there are too many people who have lost confidence in … [Read more...]
Are you leading?
11/17/2011 By Leave a Comment
Just because someone has the title of leader and a sign on the door doesn't automatically mean that they are, in fact, an effective leader. One of the … [Read more...]
Posing: a Pastor’s Problem
11/07/2011 By Leave a Comment
" I desire relationship not your posing." - Timothy Warren It is happening all around us. In fact, maybe you have felt it happening within you? … [Read more...]
The Double Bottom Line – Meaningful Profits
10/27/2011 By Leave a Comment
Ted Leonsis has reached the top of the proverbial success heap. With a very impressive resume’, Leonsis, a billionaire has devoted himself to not … [Read more...]
Courage: Character of a Leader
10/11/2011 By Leave a Comment
"Real courage defends values, principles and people not property and profits." Mark Twain once wrote "Courage is the resistance of fear, the mastery … [Read more...]
Problem-Solving: Reverse Engineering
09/20/2011 By Leave a Comment
Creative problem solving is an essential tool in anyone's tool box! With effective problem solving tools you can employ the one which is best suited … [Read more...]
I Smell Like Sheep Poop: Spirituality of Work
08/16/2011 By Leave a Comment
I got a call from a friend a couple of days ago. He has a small sheep herd of about 100 head and he was needing help sorting them. Some … [Read more...]
Keep your Goals to Yourself?
08/08/2011 By Leave a Comment
Conventional wisdom tells us it is a good idea to share our goals with others for the purpose of vocalizing them and soliciting help with … [Read more...]
Relationship as a Value Proposition
08/03/2011 By Leave a Comment
Many of us in our respective businesses are well aware of our competition. We may have similar products and services which serve the same function … [Read more...]
Inspiring Hope: Leadership Series
07/26/2011 By Leave a Comment
Today's effective healthy leaders understand that those they lead are not a commodity to be consumed. A product to be bought and used to serve the … [Read more...]
Humility in a Status Chasing World
06/29/2011 By Leave a Comment
Somewhere during my formative years I came to believe that humility was the rejection of the reality that some things I did, I did well. To accept … [Read more...]
Character of a Leader
06/14/2011 By Leave a Comment
Working with leaders in different spheres, we see time and again that much of the popular thinking of leadership falls short. While working a … [Read more...]
Motivating Employees with Meaning
05/02/2011 By 1 Comment
Motivating those who work for us can be a challenge! Whether they receive a pay cheque or volunteer it is important to help your team understand why … [Read more...]
Guilt Free Giving: Generosity that Brings Life
04/06/2011 By Leave a Comment
One of the best things in our businesses is the joy from supporting worthwhile causes and projects. As a spiritual practice, our giving flows from … [Read more...]
Faith or Certainty
03/31/2011 By Leave a Comment
Two Fools on the Road to Emmaus Podcast (Archive) - Is God angry when we have doubts? Can doubt be a part of healthy faith? Today the guys … [Read more...]
12 Traits of Inspired Leadership
02/23/2011 By Leave a Comment
"The authority by which the Christian leader leads is not power but love, not force but example, not coercion but reasoned persuasion. Leaders have … [Read more...]
Cultivating Healthy Business Relationships
02/14/2011 By Leave a Comment
Andrea owns and operates an online retail store. A significant part of her value proposition, that which brings value to her customers and … [Read more...]
10 Ideas for Empowering Leadership
02/09/2011 By Leave a Comment
Leadership is not a job, not a role one plays at work and then puts aside during the commute home in order to relax and enjoy real life. Rather, … [Read more...]
Prayer for Busy People
01/18/2011 By Leave a Comment
It’s a no-brainer to state life is incredibly fast paced and busy! Seems there are more demands for our time than time in a day and yet we strive … [Read more...]
The difference between Coaching & Spiritual Direction?
01/06/2011 By Leave a Comment
What an excellent question and while volumes have been written on both it is important to understand the two are not the same thing as if Coaching … [Read more...]
Life from Conflict
10/05/2010 By Leave a Comment
We co-hosted a weekend gathering in the Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada. It was an opportunity for people from a wide variety of backgrounds and … [Read more...]
Everyday
10/05/2010 By Leave a Comment
Once upon a time there were two carpenters; framers to be precise. Each day they would arrive at the building site to pound nails, erect walls. … [Read more...]
Light at the End of the Dark Night
10/05/2010 By Leave a Comment
St. John of the Cross, a Carmelite priest from Spain, coined the phrase the “Dark Night of the Soul”. It is a poignant metaphor used to describe … [Read more...]
Business and Leadership Development
09/22/2010 By Leave a Comment
Did you know the smartest people are not always the most Successful? Today’s most successful entrepreneurs and CEO’s are intelligent and … [Read more...]
