Archive for September, 2010

Finding Those Who Have IT

Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010

It is good to be back in the office today after a huge week in Sun­river. Some of you might know that we just fin­ished The Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence, which is the real crown jewel event for our com­pany.  It con­sists of four days of busi­ness and life coach­ing with over 225 atten­dees, and it‘s a ton of fun for our team!

Dur­ing the Expe­ri­ence, there are main-stage lessons and small break­out ses­sions on top­ics rang­ing from life plan­ning to excep­tional cus­tomer ser­vice to best prac­tices for strate­gic think­ing. With this wide range of top­ics, there was one ques­tion I was asked more than any other dur­ing the week, and it is the basis for this post.

“How have you assem­bled such an amaz­ing team of car­ing and incred­i­bly tal­ented people?”

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The Building Champions Experience

Tuesday, September 14th, 2010

Hey there readers,

I will not be writ­ing a reg­u­lar post this week. My team and I are out of the office, lead­ing our third annual Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Expe­ri­ence in cen­tral Ore­gon. I will do my best to share key thoughts and insights from the week via Twit­ter, and you can also fol­low along on our BCE Blog.

I will be back to my reg­u­lar blog­ging next week.  I appre­ci­ate you read­ing what I have to say, and your addi­tions and comments!

Cheers,

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A Thinking Process Every Leader Must Know

Friday, September 10th, 2010

Every good leader has a col­lec­tion of tools they draw from to pro­mote bet­ter com­mu­ni­ca­tion within their team. Some of these tools are use­ful because they help the leader to gather accu­rate and real­is­tic infor­ma­tion from within. This infor­ma­tion can be used to make deci­sions that will lead to greater suc­cess and improved team culture.

Some years ago, Build­ing Cham­pi­ons Coach Ray­mond Glea­son shared a think­ing process with me which has rev­o­lu­tion­ized both the way we com­mu­ni­cate inter­nally, and the way I coach my clients. I have coached hun­dreds of lead­ers through this process, and all have shared with me that they have got­ten pow­er­ful results.

It’s called the “Keep-Start-Stop.”

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How to Serve Those Who Serve Us

Friday, September 3rd, 2010

This week has been one filled with great inspi­ra­tion and sor­row for me.

I am writ­ing this from one of the most beau­ti­ful loca­tions I have ever been to. I am at Mal­ibu, which is a Young Life Camp located in Canada in a nar­row fjord called Princess Louisa Inlet. The first pic­ture included here shows the beauty of this place. The other is my inspi­ra­tion for this post.

On Mon­day, I arrived here with my son Wes­ley and about 50 young peo­ple from our church. We are here to serve the fam­i­lies of US mil­i­tary who have recently returned from deploy­ment in Afghanistan or Iraq. Some have only been back in the states for a few weeks, and this is the first real down time they have had with their wives, hus­bands and kids.

Re-entry can be very dif­fi­cult, and my role has been to serve as a small group leader with a few cou­ples. It has been truly rich and wonderful.

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