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Autographed Copies of ‘Captured by Love’

Purchase your autographed copy of ���Captured by Love��� direct from Leading with Honor! The enclosed bookplate adds an extra personal touch if you���re planning to give as a gift. Offered exclusively online in the Leading with Honor Store. Or purchase non-autographed copies anywhere that you purchase books.

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The Generous Legacy of St Nicholas

The white-bearded Christian saint whose acts of generosity inspired America���s secular Santa Claus figure is known worldwide ��� but Saint Nicholas��� origin story is not. The legends surrounding jolly old St. Nicholas go way beyond delivering candy and toys to children.

Read about his generous legacy on the Associated Press website.

 

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, December 6, 2024

���When you are willing to suffer to do what you know is the right thing to do, your self-confidence increases, and you become healthier, more humble and more willing to be vulnerable.��� ��� Lee Ellis

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7 Leading With Honor Codes

A great set of principles for all personal and work relationships – Over 100,000 leaders have downloaded this helpful tool. Go to leadingwithhonor.com/code to download your free copy and focus on just one or two of them this week.

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Coaching Blog – 2 Important Ways to Boost Your Leadership Confidence

As a leadership speaker, trainer, and coach, you can always learn something new about how to help leaders lead better. A great article was recently published in HR-Brew about what many managers need in today���s workplace. It highlights a Gallup survey that indicated that almost one third of employees are not engaged largely because their managers are not engaged with them. Go a step higher, and it often reveals that their managers��� bosses are not engaged with them. The reality is that a lack of engagement at the top usually cascades down to the folks below.

 

Two Important Year-End Principles

This year, my coaching blogs have covered many of the essential and effective leadership principles and lessons from the book Engage with Honor with the Courageous Accountability Model as the core. As we close out this series, here are two of the most important principles of leadership���you must grow to believe more in yourself, and you must consciously care about your people and let them know you believe in them.

 

This coaching clip expands on this idea. Please watch, and then continue reading the blog below ���

 

Believe in Yourself

Three years ago this month, my coaching blog also focused on the importance of believing in yourself. In reading it, I perked up when I saw a sentence that highlighted one of the key concepts that we need in order to believe in ourselves ���

���In that crucible of leadership in the POW camps, we learned that sometimes the suffering we fear most becomes the agent of our healing. If we have the courage to lean into the pain of our doubts and fears to do what we believe we can and should do, then we move the needle���the self grows more secure and more capable to do the hard things that come our way.���

 

When you are willing to suffer to do what you know is the right thing to do, your self-confidence increases, and you become healthier, more humble and more willing to be vulnerable. [Tweet This]

 

You know you don���t have to pretend to be perfect and know it all; you just have to clarify what is wise and appropriate and step forward. And when you make a mistake, admit it, and learn from it. The more you do that, the more others will believe in you and the more that you will believe in yourself.

 

Believe in Others

One other important thing to help you become more secure���reflect on the leaders and teammates who have shown that they believe in you. Think about those who have shown respect and treated you as somebody they cared about. They believed in you, so you should believe in yourself.

With this acceptance, it���s your turn to let others know that you believe in them. The more secure you are, the easier it is to let others know you care about them. At every level, this is critical. The more that people are appreciated, the more they are valued and respected, the better they will perform. Here are two reasons why ���

 

The more that others believe in them, the more they will believe in themselves, which leads to healing from their insecurities. With greater security, they���ll be more confident and perform better.The more secure they are, the more they will be able to give encouragement and attention to others. And the better their people will perform.

 

You can apply the Four A���s mentioned that I use in coaching and training to believe in others ���

 

Acknowledge their presence. Do this by being Available, Accessible, and Approachable���and smile. Accept them for who they are. Look at them with a positive perspective and focus on what they bring to the table���and smile. Affirm them with something specific about their performance ���and smile. Appreciate them���show them you value them. Let them know you believe in them and that they are bringing value to your team���and smile.

 

Simple Rules for Encouragement

 

Finally, here are several ways to encourage people in simple yet powerful ways ���

 

Treat them with respect.Listen to them and get their perspective on issues.Encourage them by showing appreciation for some aspect of their work.Smile at them. A smile is like a ray of love that impacts their deep emotions and makes them feel important, safe and cared about.

 

These are gifts that keep on giving. More importantly, I like to say that they���re also rays of love ��� God���s love that has more value than we realize. Test this idea and let me know how it works for you.

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Amazon Bestseller! Holiday Gifts for Your Favorite Readers

Captured by Love��shares the real love stories of 20 Vietnam War POWs. Some had wives who started a movement that changed American foreign policy. Others came home and had to start over, while five single men met the loves of their lives.

Former POW Lee Ellis and love expert Greg Godek take you on a dramatic journey of faithfulness, passion, excitement, resilience, and practical love lessons from these couples.

New Amazon Bestseller in the Military Families and Survival Biographies & Memoirs

Order Your Softcover, eBook, or Audiobook on Amazon.comRead some sample stories

 

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Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving from Lee Ellis and the Leading with Honor Team! We are grateful for friends, followers, and clients like you.

#happythanksgiving #gratefulness #gratitude

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Gratefulness Quote from a Special Couple

���People who remain grateful for what they have���regardless of their circumstances���are the happiest people in the world.��� ��� Jim and Dora Bell, former Vietnam POW couple

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Keeping Focus During the Holiday Hustle: A Guide for Business Leaders

We all do it ��� we over-plan, over-commit, and over-extend ourselves for the holidays, both at work and at home. Great, practical holiday advice for teams and leaders from friend and colleague, Dr Mary Kelly ���

Check it out on her website, and post your advice below too.

 

 

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Leadership History Lesson for November 24th

Thanksgiving Day originated from a harvest feast shared between the Wampanoag people and the English Pilgrims in 1621 in what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts. 52 English people and at least 90 Wampanoag people had a three-day feast of deer, corn, shellfish, and roasted meat, plus ball games, singing, and dancing.

What���s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders know how important celebration is for their teams.

 

Thanksgiving – Wikipedia

 

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Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, November 22, 2024

Captured by Love Quote ��� ���Expecting the best���even in the midst of horror and over long periods of uncertainty���is a mindset that helps people accomplish the near-impossible. It helped keep our POWs, and it can keep loving couples together over separation, time, and distance.��� ��� Dave & Sandy Carey

 

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