Changing the World through Leadership & Values
What can I help you with?
Success without Stress?
Would you like to be a successful leader without stressing out or burning out?
Finding your Faith?
Are you trying to discover how to authentically live your faith every day and in all situations?
Ministry with Teens?
Do you need better skills (and ideas) for ministering to high school students?
Being a Confirmation Sponsor?
Could you use a crash course on effectively sponsoring a young person for Confirmation?
I’m Brandon, a business leader, youth minister, blogger, podcaster & speaker
Over the years, I’ve discovered that becoming a Relaxed Leader is a great choice for many people – but it’s not about being lazy or taking a Laissez-faire attitude toward leadership. It takes a bit more of a systematic approach if you want to become a Relaxed Leader.
RELAX and Lead
R – Review & Reflect
Keep an eye on your priorities and the effectiveness of your current activities.
E – Empower
Develop team members who understand priorities and achieve results without constant oversight.
L – Leverage
Take advantage of day-to-day situations when effective, focused leadership can dramatically impact team performance and multiply results.
A – Amplify
Promote team members and their ideas, celebrate wins, and have a strong communications plan.
X-FACTOR
Identify that “special something” only YOU can bring to the team… and BRING IT!
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Leadership Lenses
Two ways of seeing the world!
Settling scores or opening doors? That question is at the root of this discussion – this comparison – of grievance and possibility. On the surface, it may seem like they are two rather unrelated concepts but they actually do a fine job of illustrating a couple very different (and common) worldviews. Relaxed Leaders would be wise to understand these two opposing approaches because one is completely in line with our REAL values and the other can easily suck us in and lead us down the wrong path.
Think BIG!
The only goal-setting framework you need.
Whether you work in the private or public sector, one thing is certain: Change is inevitable. Those who strive to maintain the status quo – or try to go back to some imagined idyllic time – are destined to fail. On the other hand, a friend once told me, “Only dead fish go with the flow.” She wasn’t saying that constantly fighting the current was advisable. Her point was that YOU need to choose where you want to go and don’t rely on the river – your environment – to take you to the optimal destination.
The Incredible Power of Beliefs
The right mindset means the sky’s the limit!
Every single one of us has a way of looking at the world and psychologists have shown there are two general mindsets that help shape our individual perspective. These mindsets have been formed by our experiences, by the feedback and reinforcement we’ve received from others, and by the way we’ve processed all of those things. Research has shown that our beliefs – about ourselves, others, and how the world works – can predict both the ambitiousness of our goals and how likely we are to reach them.