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KidPower 2015 Earth Day Project – Coaching Kids to Lead

Lead Change Blog

Fifteen years ago, I reinvented myself and started a new career in faith-based social services. I have learned that if program participants can transition from being recipients of services to servant leaders, the trajectory of their lives begins to dramatically change. One of these programs is Children of Inmates, Inc.

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QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management.

QAspire

Servant leadership is all about getting authority (not just power) by serving the people you lead. Servant-leaders focus on achieving results by giving priority to the needs of their people/peers. Servant leadership is not just a concept - it is a mindset.

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Practicing Patience and Faith

Persuasive Powerhouse

On Sunday, I took 75 pictures; because of a light wind and the sun’s travels across the sky, perhaps five of those were true &# keepers&#. The movement of the sun as I’m waiting for the wind to die down can change the perfect shadows on the object I’m capturing, sending it into darkness, rendering the shot useless.

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Memorial Day Leadership Lessons

N2Growth Blog

Moreover, it is those leaders who receive the negative press, those leaders who just can’t seem to get the job done that universally seem to be void in some or all of the aforementioned traits. I left my son’s graduation in Florida on Sunday evening headed for Dallas and then traveling on to San Antonio.

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Is Your Heart the Boss of You? | Aspire-CS

Persuasive Powerhouse

September 20th, 2010 | Author: Mary Jo Asmus Every now and then, I have the pleasure of seeing how my education and early career as a bench biologist can have some connection with the work I am now doing. In addition, there is evidence that some sensory information is sent directly to the heart before it even travels to the brain.

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Servant Leadership…Creating an Environment of Service | You're Not.

You're Not the Boss of Me

As such, while some people will experience great results from their efforts to serve; others will consider it a fad that will go away if they ignore it; and still others will make every effort to embrace the notion of the Servant Leader but find themselves exhausted, confused and possibly resentful because people seem to be walking all over them.

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Let Them See You as Human

Persuasive Powerhouse

Folks need to understand you are really no different than them, you are just at a different place at a different time along your career path and therefore have a different role right now. Tell them what you did this weekend, talk about your kids and hobbies. Good stuff. This greatly extended commute times to work.

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