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Effective Communication: The Key To Building Strong Relationships

I can’t hammer it home enough how important communication is in leadership and, more importantly, your life overall. While John Maxwell says everything rises and falls on leadership, I have to diverge from this great leadership thinker.

Leadership is important, but I believe communication is even more important.

Without communication, you can’t rise to the level of a great leader. People won’t follow or understand you if you can’t effectively communicate your

  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Desires
  • Thoughts
  • Agendas
  • Etc…

Communication is the key to getting things done in leadership. It holds that communication will get you to the next level. Especially in building relationships.

Many relationships, in business and personal, have fallen because a person couldn’t communicate. They failed to share their needs, desires, and wants. They couldn’t spit out the words to let the other person know.  Read more...

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The Role Of Rest And Renewal In Personal Development

If there’s one thing I believe more than anything about leadership other than we can’t do leadership alone is that leaders need to find rest. Rest is critical to your personal development, even if it seems counterintuitive. 

The Role Of Rest And Renewal In Personal Development

There are multiple reasons why rest is essential in your personal development. Rest does the following:

  • Recharges our minds
  • Recharges our bodies
  • Gives us clarity
  • Allows us to process our day
  • Helps us to process our situations

As you can see, rest isn’t something we choose to do. Rest is something we must do. But we struggle with rest because we’re told to hustle all day, every day. That’s terrible advice. We have to find ways to slip rest into our days.

But how do we make rest important? How do we get rest in our days?  Read more...

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7 Unstoppable Communication Techniques

Everyone communicates. Not everyone communicates effectively. 

They use poor prose, ineffective examples, or they drone on and on. Little do they realize what they’re doing to the people they lead, communicate with, and live with. 

They’re not really communicating. They’re giving information. And they’re leaving people feeling empty and unheard.

You can change this for yourself and those you lead. You can develop effective communication skills that will skyrocket your effectiveness and help you communicate clearly.

7 Unstoppable Communication Techniques

To improve your communication skills, look at these unstoppable communication techniques. Each technique will help you become the communicator you’ve always desired to be, but maybe struggled to live out. By applying these techniques, you’ll find people understand what you’re trying to say, listen to you, and help you reach your goals.  Read more...

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What’s Your Trail Look Like?

Pam and I recently traveled to Santa Fe, New Mexico to celebrate our 15th wedding anniversary. It’s hard to believe we’ve been married for 15 years but we have.

Whenever we travel by plane, we rent a vehicle. We’ve thought about trying to do the whole Uber thing while we don’t have our own personal vehicle but it doesn’t make sense to us. The cost to Uber places would outweigh the cost to rent a car and sightsee. Thus, we rent a vehicle.

Red Toyota Rav4 stopped at a crosswalk

Photo by James Coleman

This time around, Hertz put us in a Toyota Rav4. This vehicle was nice. It came with all sorts of features our older, paid-off vehicles do not have. But it did not come with one feature I expected it to have.  Read more...

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What Is Expected Of You As A Leader

Eekkk! You got the call. You’ve been tasked with stepping up to a new role in your organization. They’re going to give you a new title. The title of a leader!

Let the celebration commence. You’ve taken a big step by moving into a leadership position. Congratulations.

The expectations of a leader

Photo by Val Vesa

But you probably have some butterflies in your stomach. They’re fluttering around and making you nervous. This is normal! Every leader stepping into a first-time leadership role has the butterflies. I’d be worried if you didn’t.

As you step into your leadership role, you probably have some questions. One of those is: What is expected out of me as a leader? I can’t answer what your organization will expect from you. Their expectations will vary based on the organization you work for.  Read more...