Getting ahead in this competitive marketplace means knowing when we aren't adding value. To make the biggest impact, it's important to recognize when we're just waiting tables.
For Christians who believe in servant leadership, this goes against our training. After all, aren't we supposed to be willing to do even...
It's really easy to think of catastrophic blunders that bring an immediate end to a job. I imagine punching a boss or embezzling money or drug use at work.
That's not what this top-10 list covers. In this video we review those subtle things we do, mostly without even realizing...
In Deuteronomy 29:29 it says "the secret things belong to the Lord." There is a profound wisdom in acknowledging how little we actually know. As a famous theologian named Thomas Watson once said, "The greatest part of our knowledge is not as much as the least part of our...
There is one chapter in the Bible so densely packed with leadership insight, it's hard to imagine how the author of Samuel 1 came about the content. The chapter is 1 Samuel 30 and it chronicles a short stretch of time in David's life, before he became king. It's...
We all experience negative emotion in the workplace. I think it fair to say we all realize negative emotions don't serve our career very well. In this group executive coaching session I explore a new way to consider the possible causes of the negative emotion and some really fantastic...
Few professionals, let alone Christian professionals, take the time to plan out a career path. It takes strategic thinking, like you might find in a chess match. In this video I take examples from three chess grand-masters to parallel with career aspirations. As it says in Proverbs 21:5, the...
There's a part of us that wants to vent at work when things aren't right. Something inside, however, holds us back. We choose, instead, to suppress how we're feeling instead of expressing it. Is this the right thing to do? The truth is, other factors are at work when...
When making difficult decisions, that kinds that have a large impact on our future, it can be hard to see how we get in our own way. We feel stuck or confused and it happens based on the four types of internal blockers (Fear, Assumptions, Interpretations or Limiting Beliefs). ...
This is the 11th video conference session in my series of FREE Saturday morning Group Coaching sessions. In a joint-study conducted by Duke and Harvard Business School, researchers wanted to find out the extent people go to deceive themselves. They also explored how far people go to preserve...
We live in an I-Want-It-Now world. It is so deep in our psyche, very few realize it's even there. And when it comes to our professional aspirations, the same attitude influences our steps. We want fast results in our job search, career growth, training endeavors, leadership efforts and so...