Tweet As a leader, I need to be listening to different voices. One of the biggest mistakes I’ve seen leaders make is forgetting everyone doesn’t think like us. I have…
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Tweet Healthy organizations maintain an unchanging vision they sustain long-term. One way they do so, however, is with a willingness to change their organizational structure as needed. If the structure…
Tweet In making a first impression the little things matter, so I once did an experiment. When a visitor shows up on one of our church campuses for the first…
Tweet We should welcome constructive feedback as a leader. I remember an especially hard year for me as a leader. It was so bad several members of our staff had…
Tweet There are some things that annoy me (most) in leading people. They almost always involve the ways people misuse or even abuse their leadership power. But also the way…
Tweet We confuse certain words in leadership. And that can be a real problem for someone like me. Anyone who has ever served with me on a team could probably…
Tweet I once had a good illustration of leading under pressure. The Story I met a friend at a restaurant for breakfast. The place was normally busy and this seemed…
Have you learned a valuable principle about your leadership?
The way others expect you to respond often determines the way they respond.
If they expect you to respond in anger…they’ll dance around an issue, afraid to confront…
If they expect you to respond defensively…they’ll only bring you the proven answers…refusing to take risks…
If they expect you to respond with condemnation…they’ll be tempted to only share part of the story…maybe none at all…
If they expect you to respond negatively…they’ll hold back some of their best ideas…afraid you’ll crush them…
However…
Tweet With every team or organization I have led there have been people who get frustrated with someone else on the team. In full disclosure, sometimes others have been frustrated…
Tweet There are common things people do which make for a hard time fitting on a team. It’s a bad thing to be “odd person out” by no choice of…