Build a Championship Team, The Dying Art of Conversation, Environmental Toxins?
As a Christian business leader you want to accelerate your growth, profit, and witness in the marketplace. Our goal is to bring you the best tips, tools, and techniques to do just that!
So, here we go!
Business
How To Build a Championship Team – Tony Dungy is one of my favorite coaches of all time. I am not a Pro Football fan at all – my football watching is done on Saturdays, but I love what this guy stands for. He has also produced outstanding results. Togetherness + Sacrifice. Great 1 minute video or blog post. Your choice. Click here to watch.
The #1 Best Exercise for Your Team – As a leader, your job is to help your team achieve their goals and ambitions while they help you achieve yours. If you’ve hired the right people, this mutual goal accomplishment will work like a dream. But, you’ve got to ask the right questions. Click here to find out how.
Health
Avoid These While Pregnant – If you didn’t know, we are pregnant! Expecting our 4th in September. One of the things my amazing wife has been working on over the last couple months is to reduce our family’s exposure to toxic chemicals that are present in so many everyday items. This article just adds fuel to the fire. Great read if you are expecting or have little ones around your home. Click here to read. The article starts with the issue of mold growing in sippy cups, but gets to the environmental toxins a bit further in. Also, great info about the need to optimize Vitamin D during pregnancy (which most males are deficient in too!).
Life, Fun, Whatever!
The Dying Art of Conversation – With texting and social media we are losing our ability to have good, face to face conversations. Great Ted Talk with 10 suggestions for better conversations from an expert interviewer. We should all enter every conversation “prepared to be amazed.”
- Don’t multitask. Not just cell phones. Pay mindful attention.
- Don’t pontificate – Set aside your personal opinion and be ready to learn.
- Use open ended questions (Who, What, Where, When, How).
- Go with the flow. Stay with the conversation. Not what you want to say next.
- If you don’t know, say that you don’t know.
- Don’t equate your experience with theirs. Don’t compare your experience to theirs. No two experiences are the same.
- Don’t repeat yourself.
- Don’t go into the details (names, number, dates…). People don’t care about the details.
- Listen. Most important! If your mouth is open, you are not learning. No one ever listened their way out of a job. Listen with the intent to understand, not reply.
- Be brief. She quotes something about a mini-skirt…. You’ll have to watch to catch that one!
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