I was working this week with a global vice president whose organization is facing 7% turnover. He met with his staff and asked the magic question: “In what ways can we…?” It took them 25 minutes to stop blaming and start thinking of possible solutions. Only then did ideas begin to flow: Change how we…
Author: John Rodgers
Time Out! The Servant Leader
Goals. Please write, review, and/or rewrite your goals for 2018. Did you write them from the “Me” perspective or the “We” perspective? When we set our goals from the “We” perspective, we can be more helpful or useful to others to better serve them. Send me a note and let me know what your goals…
This is our time…Right now! The Servant Leader
Overcoming odds, doing what others might believe is impossible, executing successfully, then telling the story is inspirational. Why? Because many of us get discouraged by what seems to be an impossible task as even those close to us have their doubts. This causes us to question ourselves and our abilities. For most of us, our…
Time Out! The Servant Leader
Time Out! Many of you know I grew up on a farm in central Pennsylvania. While I chose early in life not to make agriculture my vocation, my sister, Audrey Gay Rodgers, did select agriculture — with a twist — for her life’s work. She has the Hameau Farm Camp for girls where every summer girls ages 8-14 experience…
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“Everybody wins when a leader gets better.” This compelling declaration came from Bill Hybels in the first few minutes of his opening remarks at the 2017 Global Leadership Summit, and I got ten times the value of my investment with that simple, yet powerful thought. For the last 30 years, the reason I have gotten…
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This past week our leadership team attended The Global Leadership Summit, and it was tremendous to hear some current global leaders discuss the mysteries of leadership. You can imagine the excitement I felt of receiving rather than presenting and how satisfying it was to have my emotional bucket filled. Here is just one small takeaway…
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This past week, I found myself working with several executives on change management. Not only were they trying to deal with change themselves, they were thinking about how to be helpful when others experience change. How exciting to observe the servant mindset with these executives as they were focused on helping others. The challenge is…
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This past week, I was working with an executive team on time management. We started with a paradigm shift in answering the question, “Why work on ways to better utilize time?” After all, we get 1,440 minutes every day, and regardless of how effective we are, we get another 1,440 the next day. And…
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The servant mindset is easy to understand yet hard to carry out. While working with an executive this week, we focused exclusively on the Dale Carnegie human relations principle to “Become genuinely interested in other people.” It is only natural to wonder how applying this principle will help us connect with others and come across…
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One of the joys of travel for me is meeting new and different people. On our recent European trip, the first half was with a tour group from Collette Tours. Colleen and I had never experienced traveling with a tour group, and now we’re hooked! We highly recommend Collette Tours and are looking to do…