Michael Nichols | Leadership Made Simple
Leadership Made Simple
The ONE Thing That WILL Improve Your Leadership is a guest post by Tammy Helfrich. She writes about life, marriage, and encouragement and is the author of Becoming a LifeChanger: Move Away from Ordinary. Connect with her on Twitter, Facebook or her blog.
What has most impacted YOUR personal growth?
John Maxwell has always said that personal growth will open more doors in your life and work than anything else.
In your lifetime, you will have the opportunity to SIGNIFICANTLY impact the lives of a small handful people.
For me, Dennis Scheidt was one of those people.
There are ALWAYS warning signs. It hardly ever comes as a complete surprise.
Team members begin backing away. Meetings lose energy and focus. Complaints rise. Morale falls.
Then one day it becomes painfully clear – something isn’t working.
Here are 4 warning signs that your leadership isn’t working…
In our interactions with others, we begin every relationship by making a split-second choice between to trust them and and not to them – 100% of the time. There has never been exception!
We either trust a person or we don’t – it’s that simple. Then – every subsequent action (that they do to us or we do to them) is directly related to that one decision.
Our behavior will clearly demonstrate either our trust or mistrust.
So what are some simple ways to evaluate if we’ve made the decision to trust or mistrust?
We have just experienced the greatest season of charitable giving in the history of the organization where I serve.
There was no capital campaign. No fundraising drive and no direct mail appeal. No challenge, yet people gave…and gave – more than half a million dollars over the past few weeks!
Here’s why…
