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How To Turn Your Good Ideas Into Great Questions

Despite the popularity of brainstorming in meetings, sharing ideas doesn’t often lead to a creative discussion. Asking questions does. Here’s a technique to turn your good ideas into great questions.

Leaders, coaches, mentors, parents, and consultants allliketheir own ideas. “If people wouldlisten to me and dowhat Isaid,” we think, “things would get a lot better around here.” The trouble is, everyone else is thinking similar thoughts regardingtheir own ideas.

Ideas have their place. As a lead...

You Wear Only One Leadership Hat

Some people talk about leadership hats. Each hat has alabel: supervisor, consultant, coach, mentor, parent, friend, etc. Working with people they switch hats, moving fluently from one to another. Changing hats may make sense to you, but it confuses the relationship you have with people. There’s a better way.

I observed a team meeting aCEO led. “I’m going to take my CEO hat off,” he said motioning with his hand, “and put on my employee hat. As a fellow employee, what would you like to say to...

Are You Sleeping Through Your Life?

Manypeople sleep through school, career, and marriage – waking up one day unhappy. They’ve slept through life. Here’s how to wake up.

It’s easy to sleep through life. We’re busy, tired, and jumping from activity to activity. We’re notliterally asleep. The problem is wedon’t take the time to reflect on our lives, therefore we’re largely unaware of where we’re going. Like a leaf in a river, we arecarriedalong wherever lifetakes us.

Are You Sleeping Through Your Life?

Do any of these situations...

How To Stop Talking About Yourself

On average we spend 40% of our communication talking about ourselves.Research shows there are powerful forcescompelling all thistalk ofme, myself and I. Leaders can learn to stop talking about themselves, and insteadbuild trust and increase their influence by listening to others.

After my first trip to Maui, Istarted to share aboutit with a friend. Before I could say much of anything, my friend launched into stories of her honeymoon inMaui. Ten minutes later, I had heard detailsof her Maui ex...

How To Choose When To Teach and When To Coach

When leading others, your leadership approach will influencehow successfully others will perform their jobs.It’s important to know when to teach and when to coach. Get it wrong and you can do more damage than good. Get it right and you can motivate and empower people for excellent results.

Teaching and coaching are not the same things. Each is a leadership approach that can get achieve goodresults inthe appropriate situation. Let’s look at each skill, then I’ll share my experience trainingour...

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A significant percentage of my readers are involved in ministry in one way or another. Just like those working in the marketplace, ministry leaders are trying to get things done. Developing leaders should be a major priority, but often gets buried under more pressing tasks. Sound familiar?I wrote a short book called Coaching In Ministry to help.And I’m making it available for .99¢.

Coaching In Ministryfocuses on twoquestions I’ve been asked many times: What is coaching? and Why coaching? Actu...

How To Change Your Mental Time Zone To Increase Results

Time is the great equalizer, but leaders do not alllive in the same mentaltime zone. Somelive in the past, others in the present, and many in thefuture. Your mental time zonewill determine your outlook on life, and your results. Here’s how to change yours to increase results.

Our mental time zone ismostly influencedby our thoughts. If you regularly reflect on or long for the past, that’s where you’re living. If during most of your work each day isplanning for the future, you’re living there....

How Much Is Enough?

Last week I had knee surgery. It’s still swollen like a softball even when I keep it propped up over my head. It’s hard to work in this position. I’ve gotten some things done, but looking at my work load, I’m wrestling with the question: How much is enough?

Like you, I manage my own goals and efforts to reach them. No one is telling me what to work on each day. I decide.

All last weekend I thought about writing a blog post. I usually post on MondaysbutMondayis gone withno post. I’ve got othe...

3 Reasons Not To Hire A Coach, And 5 Why You Should

Coaching is the new “it” thing for leaders for a very good reason – it gets results. The largestdetermining factor for coaching results is your reason for hiring a coach in the first place. Here are 3 reasons not to hire a coach, and 5 reasons why you should.

Perhaps you’ve thought of hiring a coach but you’re not sure it’s worth your time and money.Findinga qualified coach is important. One that is well trained in specialized coaching processes thatmake coaching so fruitful. Look for someone...

Take A Vacation From Email, Without Returning To A Full Inbox

During arecent vacation I completely unpluggedfrom email, social media, and websites for a week. The experience revealed some hard lessonsabout myself. I also found the secret for how to unplug in such a way that you won’t be swamped with emails when you plug back in.

Onpast vacations I would “check-in” on email each morning and evening. This yearI decided to completely unplug. Unpluggingwould allow me to fully engage with my family 24/7, relax, and completely change my frame of mindfor a wee...