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We have three grown kids, one grandson, and one grandchild on the way. We love all of our kids and they love us. As I reflect over my parenting years, I’d give myself a solid “B+” in the parenting department. But, I also would have parented differently in several ways.

As a senior leader myself, I know I play a unique role in our organization, but I also know I’m not the end-all. In fact, by God’s design, each of our giftings is accompanied by built-in limitations. We need each other, and we’re better together. Here’s why I think having appropriate staffers participate in board meetings is healthy for your organization.

While not difficult to understand, reconciliation can be a difficult word to put into practice. It can be very difficult to get two family members who are at odds to be reconciled. And it can sometimes seem very difficult for us (or for others we know) to be made right with God.

What should you communicate to your leader, to your boss? What needs to be shared with your leader to help him/her understand the area you are leading and stewarding? Here are three things you should communicate to your leader.

Here are five types of questions that have helped me to improve my emotional connectivity with people.

Feedback is a tool of power, and it can create environments of freedom or oppression.

Is there an “Asian American” way to handle feedback? How does ethnicity impact feedback processes and growth?

Allow yourself to be influenced by others, but believe in what you stand for.

A recipe for how to make someone’s blood boil. And how to cool it down in 3 simple steps.

If you follow soccer at all you would have heard by now that Leicester City Football Club, a soccer club in England, has won the British Premier League, one of the most well-known soccer leagues in the world. If you don’t follow soccer, you might not understand the importance of this victory. Leicester City showed how teamwork can be more important to success than incredible individual talent on one of the greatest sporting stages in the world.

Which is worse: criticism or indifference?

Breaking down effective feedback: 7 practical steps that can be executed in less than 1 minute.