Category: Leadership

When was the last time you looked at your organization's job description for you? The longest one I ever got was three pages. I would get anxious just thinking about it. That's why I love the idea of boiling down what you do to a sentence. There's power in keeping things short. It's why Twitter … Continue reading Why Everyone on Your Team Needs a One Sentence Job Description

Today I'll wrap up our series about getting things done. Here are the first two steps in case your missed them: 1. Identify your roles 2. Schedule when and where you'll do your work Now for the last two: 3. Leave space for life to happen In my schedule (see part 2) you'll notice there's … Continue reading 4 Simple Steps to Getting Things Done Without Burning Out, Pt 3

Yesterday we talked about identifying the roles you play in life. I listed the roles that I play by way of example (Personal, Family, Pastor, Leader, Teacher, and Administrator). Today we'll talk about what to do once you've identified your roles, put them in order of importance, and listed all of your tasks under the … Continue reading 4 Simple Steps to Getting Things Done Without Burning Out, Pt 2

Life started getting pretty busy for me in high school. Up until that point I was able to keep all of the things I needed to do in my head. But starting in high school that system stopped working for me. Between all the work for my classes, my job, extra curricular like student council, … Continue reading 4 Simple Steps to Getting Things Done Without Burning Out, Pt 1

http://youtu.be/MYK0HH5XUy0 Doug Fields is one of my favorite speakers. This video is taken from the National Youth Workers confession back in 2011. You may not be a youth worker (I'm not) but there's a lot of great transferable principles here to help you develop the leaders who are following you.

One of the roles that came back on my StandOut assessment was Equalizer. If you're not familiar with StandOut it's written by the same guys who created StrengthsFinder. StandOut is different in it limits your top roles to 2 instead of 5 and tells you how to use those to stand out at work. So … Continue reading Pay Attention to The Right Gaps