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2 Essential Guidelines for Your Goals *culture Jan 26, 2022

When charting our aim for a new year or a new season the question we must answer is WHY.

Why do I want to accomplish this goal?

That is, we need to assess (honestly)-- Does accomplishing your goal...

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4 Moments a Leader Needs Courage passion Jan 19, 2022

Leadership is hard.

Honestly…it’s downright frightening at times. 

There is one quality that every leader must possess: Courage.

Leadership requires courage because leadership is...

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3 Common Traits of Elite Leaders blog people team Jan 12, 2022

Want to be an elite leader?

If you’re reading this post, my gut tells me your answer is a resounding, “Yes!”

Most leaders want to improve and few want to settle which leads to a...

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Why You Must Work On The Culture *culture Jan 05, 2022

The #1 responsibility of the leader is to be the culture architect, that is, to design the culture you want to build. 

Your job is to ensure that the culture is built by design rather than...

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How to-- and why you must-- make progress a daily habit *systems progress Dec 29, 2021

Did you know that when NASA launches a rocket, it almost immediately goes off course?

While you would expect this to be an exact science, successful missions are actually a series of...

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10 Reasons Every Leader Needs a Coach (coach) shawn lovejoy Dec 29, 2021

I find it hard to believe that I have already been coaching pastors for twenty years. 

However, when I am speaking to a group of leaders, I will often say, “If you hear me something and...

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What growth actually looks like- and how to handle each season *systems passion people Dec 15, 2021

I want you to do a small exercise.

First, take an honest assessment of where you are. 

Are you on a peak or in a pit?

It’s likely one or the other…

Second,  take the...

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3 Reasons Organizations Stop Growing *culture *systems *team Dec 08, 2021

At CourageToLead.com we teach our Gears of Growth Framework as THE primary tool to help leaders find the problem areas (and potential places) in their organization. Both are important.

Many leaders...

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Teachability = The Can’t Miss Quality When Promoting From Within *team blog people Dec 01, 2021

In today’s reality of shrinking budgets and uncertain futures, many organizations we are coaching are promoting leaders from within rather than making outside hires.

As part of our framework...

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Maintaining Your Poise As A Leader (10 Characteristics) *culture priorities Nov 24, 2021

In these crazy days in which we are living, I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the importance of POISE as a Leader. I looked up the word. Summing up the various definitions of the word, ...

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