It’s easy for leaders to lose sight of our greatest responsibility. It’s not making money, growing our organization, or even having a larger staff—it’s helping others. When you focus on others first a...

Remember those old-fashioned, beautiful blankets that grandma used to make? The ones that took months to make, comprised of patterns made from countless patches sewn together? As children, we would ma...

Instead of only focusing on our external effectiveness, we ought to pay more attention to our internal efficiencies. The more efficient we are, the more effective we’ll be.

If you’ve ever led in the midst of a crisis, no matter how large, you know that teams work together in a different way when challenges arise. Crisis times are stressful; there’s change happening at li...

So often in conflict resolution, we fixate on what actually happened. Behind the reality, however, are expectations that were not met. Address and adjust the expectations, and you’ll minimize conflict...

Everyone influences.

Read that statement one more time.

No matter who you are, where you are, what your position, or what your direction in life, you are both influencing and being influenced by oth...

Many times, we throw all our attention and efforts into events, without considering the processes behind these events. When you have both an events team and a process team, you’ll truly start to gain ...

All leaders have been there before: we’ve just heard a great idea; our team is on board; everybody’s excited…now, the question presents itself: how are we going to come up with the funding to make it ...

As we go throughout life, we become good at engaging with people and things; however, our disengaging skills aren’t always so refined. It’s essential to disengage from people and things in order to go...

If you’re the lead leader in your organization, you’re likely familiar with something called the wisdom gap. Even if you don’t call it by that name, the wisdom gap plays an integral role in your daily...