He was every pastor’s dream of a new convert. He was enthusiastic, passionate, got totally involved, blessed everyone around him, and above everything else had a dramatic past that God had rescued him from (or so we thought). We …
Hard on the heals of the hugely successful ‘Now discover your strengths’ by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton, there have been the usual follow on books that develop the original ideas further. If you have never done the …
There can actually be great deal of difference between what leaders think they should be, and what followers actually want. In Jo Owen’s ‘How to lead’ he looks at the improbability of the perfect leader. He or she should …
Whether you are leading an SME, a departmental team, a project, a missional community, or a small group bible study, the issue of motivating others is always a challenge. It’s easy to think that in paid employment it’s easier, …
Henry Kissinger (U.S. secretary of state under Richard Nixon) said that leadership is the art of ‘taking people where they would not have gone by themselves’. This of course presupposes that we know where people really want to go, …
As I said in last week’s blog about performance coaching, people tend to do what you inspect rather than what you expect. So the value of a review process is immense. Accountability needs to be built into everything we …
Last blog we looked at performance planning, and in particular setting goals and using the SMART adjectives to describe the kind of goals we want. These goals are important as they have the power to pull us into the …
Performance is an important part of any job. If we don’t perform, we probably shouldn’t be in that job. Every job or voluntary role has explicit or implicit things it is designed to achieve. I add the word ‘role’ …
This one is a bit of a cheat, but I thought you might like something different and fun for a change Check out this short video http://thedolectures.co.uk/lectures/how-to-enable-conflict/
It’s a simple idea but not often implemented. One definition of redundancy is ‘repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission’. This gets to the heart of what redundant communication is all about. We usually think …
