Attaining Trust Through Competence

Competence is your knowledge and ability in a particular subject area. Competency can be real, perceived, or imagined. True competence comes from life-long learning and experience that gradually taught you what you know. Perceived competence comes from other people judging you based on external factors and their experiences with you.

Out of Ice? Stay Cool through Applied Strategic Thinking

To start the strategic thinking process you will need to make an appointment with yourself and dive deep into your strategic needs.

Leader, Have a Love Affair at Work: Gain Approval - Nu Leadership Series

Explore how you can create an exciting workplace through building a better relationship with your employees. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

Full-Contact Leadership

Much has been written about the leadership (or lack of leadership) crisis in America today. No business is immune to this crisis, and some are even more susceptible to it than others. Real leaders today are few and far between. We have great technicians and great managers, but few great leaders.

Leading Without Integrity - Nu Leadership Series

Examine the dangers of leading without integrity and ethics. Nu Leadership is a column that explores the changing workforce and social environment as it relates to leadership development.

What Leadership Is Not

Leadership is not being condescending to lesser. Leadership is not using emotional triggers to trick people into doing it your way. Leadership is not manipulating others. Anyone can do that and become a Catholic Priest. Leadership is not lying or telling stories or coaxing someone into your way of thinking.

Being Demonized As A Leader

Being demonized is one of the worst things that can happen to a leader. The author provides countermeasures to demonization that leaders can employ throughout their careers.

The Art of Decision - The Power of Deciding

Decision making is an art. Making decisions is a critical skill and although it is not taught in schools or professional education courses, it can be learned. There is an inherent power in decision making - the power to completely change your life or anything about it - right NOW!

How to Build Loyal Followers

Legitimate Power, also know as earned or respect power, is a combination of respect, reputation, and your history. Reputation is the sum total of how you have conducted yourself in your professional and personal affairs. If you have shown respect, integrity, and character in all your dealings, people will know it.

Executive Coaching: A Leadership Development Tool for Top Performers

Executive coaching has evolved quickly over the years. It’s important to consider the type of coach and approach that’s most appropriate for you given the results you want to achieve. Finding the right coach can be the leading edge you need to succeed professionally.

Rethinking Strategy: A Leader's Guide to Creating an Innovative Culture

Evaluate the congregation's present condition, ministries and programs (from the leadership's perspective) and determine areas of need or neglect as they engage in the strategic planning process.

Rules of How to Achieve Leadership Qualities

The rules of achieving leadership qualities by unleashing instincts inside of you are limitless. There is no stopping once you unleash the leadership rules. Likewise, leaders come in all shapes, sizes, forms, backgrounds, ethic groups, and so forth. The leader is inside of all of us, yet it takes you to unleash your instincts to achieve those leadership qualities.

Leadership Takes GUTSS

Leadership can be one of the most rewarding things a person experiences in their life. The exhilaration of knowing you orchestrated a team that came together and accomplished some worthy objective. Leadership can also be one of the most frustrating experiences in life when the objective is not met or when people on your team let you down. Ultimately, it takes guts to step into that position of leadership. Apply these GUTSS principles and your likelihood of leading successfully goes up dramatically.

Developing Your Extraordinary Mindset Opportunities

This article is to start you toward reframing your thinking skills, attitude, and self-image in order for you, as a leader, to solve some of the challenges that come your way. Go beyond feeling stuck and not knowing what to do next. You need to think of creative ways to overcome the obstacles that get in your way and look for the opportunities that surrounds you. No matter what hurdles you face on your path, you can overcome them as you take master your strategic thinking view. These are what I consider as the basics for beginning an integrated framework for achieving extraordinary performance in leadership. Combining your solutions to challenging issues with risk taking, your decisive actions, simplifications of complex issues you face, and working with other leaders and employees, as well as having a positive vision for the future. All of these mindsets enhance the extraordinary leaders’ skills as they move their organizations forward in creativity, productivity, opportunity, and innovation.