Chris Voss, Communication, Negotiation, Never Split the Difference
As a leader who is communicating a message, you are negotiating. Your listeners may be neutral toward your topic, or even against it. Even if they are “for” it, you would like to bring them on board even more.
The willingness to inconvenience yourself for others is a priceless gift, and one of the greatest gifts we can give our communities is the gift of extended family. We need people who put others first, leave space, and turn strangers into extended family members who quickly feel at home.
What if an audience can be warmed up to your message before they even hear it? The best persuaders become the best through pre-suasion – the process of arranging for recipients to be receptive to a message before they encounter it.
For many of us, inviting people into our lives and homes feels more like inviting judgment on our entertaining skills and stress on our already maxed-out schedules. But what if you knew that opening your front door had the power to radically change the world?
Alex Absalom, Bobby Harrington, Discipleship, Discipleship That Fits
The truth is Christians need relationships to grow. We don’t grow in isolation; we develop in the context of relationships with others.
Change, Chip Heath, Dan Heath, Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard
When it comes to organizational change, a key challenge becomes how to lead change while simultaneously garnering team initiative and involvement.
A Sense of Urgency, Change, Complacency, False Urgency, John Kotter
What’s missing, and is needed in almost all organizations today, is a real sense of urgency – a distinctive attitude and gut-level feeling that leads people to grab opportunities and avoid hazards, to make something important happen today, and constantly shed low-priority activities to move faster and smarter, now.
Life Design, More, Personal Life Calling, SUMS Remix, Todd Wilson
We are called not just to follow Jesus (common call to all people) but we are called to accomplish something specific as a one-of-a-kind saint (your special assignment from God).
LifeDeisgn, LifeYounique, Matthew Kelly, SUMS Remix, The Rhythm of Life, younique
Design doesn’t just work for cars and roads and streetlights and buildings, and all the hundreds of thousands of components that make those things up. You can use design thinking to discover the life God has uniquely created for you. It is a life that is meaningful, joyful, and fulfilling.
Church Guest Experience, Guest Experience, Jason Young, SUMS Remix, The Comeback Effect, Values
Hospitality is about caring for the emotions of the guest just as much as it is about serving them, if not even more.
Three effective ways to start moving toward clarity right now.
