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7 Quick Tips for Handling Stress

Ron Edmondson

Stress is all around us. Every day I encountered burned out and stressed out pastors. Regardless of your career, it appears life is more stressful than ever. I would say learning to handle stress may be one of the more important things you can do to lead effectively and long-term. How do you handle stress?

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How Managers Reject Suggestions Affects Psychological Safety At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Harvard’s Amy Edmondson has highlighted the importance of emotional and psychological safety at work throughout her career, both in terms of the performance of individuals and the wider organization. Supporting staff. “As demonstrated in our study, explanation sensitivity led to employees opening up again.

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7 Tips for Handling Stress

Ron Edmondson

Stress is all around us. Every day I encountered burned out and stressed out pastors. Regardless of your career, it appears life is more stressful than ever. People often ask how I handle stress. Here are 7 ways I handle stress: Prayer – God really does answer this request. How do you handle stress?

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Relief From Internal and External Pressure and Stress

Ron Edmondson

For this post I have invited Pastor Steve Cuss to share thoughts from his book “ Managing Leadership Anxiety ”. The stress of leading today is greater than any time in my 35 plus year leadership career. If you can figure out where it starts, you can intervene earlier and begin to manage it.

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3 Options When The Job is More Than You Feel Qualified to Do

Ron Edmondson

Are you experiencing the “heat” – the stress of leadership? At 20 years of age, I was thrust into a management position, because the manger left suddenly. By default, I was given responsibility I had bluffed upper management into believing I was prepared to do. And I think the phrase applies in leadership.

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5 Ways Young Families Can Make the Most of Family Time

Ron Edmondson

Just as adults may have a plan for their career or finances, parents need a plan for operating their home. Majoring on everything produces very stressed-out, perfectionist children, who always seem to struggle to meet other people’s expectations of them. I think it starts before the moments you are sitting around the den.

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5 Ways Ministry Has Changed in 20 Years

Ron Edmondson

I came into ministry later in life – after a long business career – and, so I’ve always seen the role differently from some who have been spent their career in ministry. The classroom has certainly gotten more difficult to manage in recent decades. God bless those who choose to serve in public schools.