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Scrapping through my email I got this great reminder from Kara Powell over at Fuller Leadership Institute. She wrote: “Recently I’ve been thinking about how much of a leader’s energy goes into 30% of the people in their community.  For a youth worker, that means you’re investing lots of energy into the 15% of your [...]

I wrote about leadership growth HERE and figured I’d follow that post up with these thoughts that I try to remember. Things for leaders to remember: great leaders continue to grow – whether you’re making your strong skills even stronger or developing new underdeveloped skills, as a leader you should be growing. we learn through [...]

If you’ve seen ANY of my recent posts you know that I LOT has changed in my life over the last few days.  All of it has been amazing and definitely a pressure cooker for learning and growing. Brooke and I rolled into this whole ‘having a child’ thing not having ANY idea what it [...]

I was reading this article in Forbes this morning and loved this thought from Daniel Coyle’s book, The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. Coyle looks at three basic elements of the development of talent: “ignition,” which basically means motivation, “deep practice” and “master coaching.” Here’s what I feel is the strongest key [...]

“The reason we drift off mission is because we forget the mission we’re on.”-Beeson all-staff mtg (Love learner from great leaders) This is true! Often times IN THE MOMENT of decision making we lose site of THE mission we’re on and choose a lesser option that is other than our mission. This was a great [...]

Just saw a commercial that asked a great question for us to think about. “Anyone can prove they’re strong once, but can they prove it over and over again? …CONSISTENCY COUNTS” This is great reminder for us leaders!

I’m diverse…..I don’t intend to be or try to be…I just am. I’m a 6’4″, 260 pound black dude with dreads living and doing ministry in GRANGER, IN….um yup! Indiana. So yeah, I’m diverse… and there’s nothing wrong with that…actually it’s pretty refreshing I think…but I’m biased. As I grew up learning leadership skills, I’ve [...]

One of my favorite quotes and principles of all times is: “You can have everything in life you want, if you just help enough other people get what they want.” This principle carried me through almost every phase of my collegiate career.  It literally was some of the ‘leadership glue‘ that brought all of the [...]

Leadership on the brain right now, can’t sleep, so I write… Great leaders are people who are willing to show up wherever they are leading and bring their best every time–and thereby create a culture where everyone else does the same! Let’s not settle. Lead strong today even though it’s the end of the week! [...]

I wrote about this previous here and I wanted to add to this list a little bit because it’s been on my mind for a while. One of my greatest passions is to help student and leaders grow in whatever areas God’s directing them towards.  One of the ways I’ve grown most as a leader [...]