Do you know how to predict an organization’s growth? Just look at the leader. If he or she is growing, the organization will grow. If he or she is stagnant or regressing, that’s what...

As a leader, you’re responsible for the vision of your organization—you set the course, define many of the objectives, and lead your team in pursuing your goals. There’s a...

Leaders primarily speak in abstract terms, while followers’ primary language is concrete. To minimize miscommunication and frustration, leaders must learn how to be bilingual.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...