Leadership Reflections

I’m sure that you, like me, want to put your best foot forward and make a great impression on the people you meet; potential ministry partners, allies and donors.  And don’t forget the impression you make on your own employees, friends and family.  You’d like to make a good impression all the time on all of them. First impressions [...]

Is your leadership contagious?  In many ways, you hope so.  If you are doing leaderly things (if ‘leaderly’ isn’t a word, it should be!), such as casting vision, inspiring hope and enthusiasm, and all the other good things a team leader does, then you hope other people will catch what you have.  But if, as [...]

Today I’m going to tell you about a tool that will turbocharge your own development as a leader, the case study method, but with a twist that I’ll explain below.  The usual format of a management case study was developed by Harvard Business School, which has no lectures, just real-life situations to analyze, solve and learn from. Now, I admit that sometimes [...]

A few years ago, I was out of the office for ten consecutive work days attending a conference and then an annual meeting of an association that CCCC belongs to.  While at the conference, I noticed that many of my peers were checking emails or calling their offices at every break during the day, as if they [...]

Would you like to know what your supporters really think of your charity?  Tired of paying big bucks for marketing surveys?  Here’s a book that I think offers a great solution.  We tried its recommendations at CCCC in January 2008 and got excellent results. The book is The Ultimate Question by Fred Reichheld.  The premise is that [...]