When I started my career in public accounting there were only four levels to reach the top. Staff accountant, Senior, Manager, then finally Partner. My managing partner was less than twenty years older than me. With only twenty years difference it wasn’t too difficult to understand his values and his expectations. Today’s workplace, however, often spans four generations, making it ...
Leadership expert, Holly Moore, shared with me that one of the ways to improve team communication is for us individually to become more self-aware. When we speak, for us it naturally feels like we communicated clearly and properly. But that is not always the case for those on the receiving end. Holly recommends that it can be valuable to periodically ...
According to a Rice University study, working women do not feel supported by their clergy and churches. Many women felt that their work was not valued by the church and that clergy rarely had workplace experience to be able to relate to working women. In addition, the study discovered that women’s church activities are often held during the day when ...
Taking President’s Day to be reminded of great leaders and their past struggles is a helpful way to inspire and shape the culture of a nation. Businesses have a similar opportunity! Hebrews 11 highlights several heroes of the faith like Abraham, Moses, and Noah, and chronicles their experiences to encourage us by their past struggles and victories. Hebrews 12:1 ...
Occasionally, I’ve witnessed an employee facing a crisis that grieves me. I want to help, but sometimes it’s more than I can do personally. Fortunately, there are possible solutions like establishing employee assistance programs. A Corporate Assistance Program I’m familiar with allows the company and team members to donate money to a fund designed to help employees through crises and ...
In business, I’ve discovered that there are takers and there are givers. Those people who claim victimhood will often have their hands out looking for help, taking whatever they can from others. These people often borrow as much money as possible with little care about how they are going to repay the debt. On the other extreme are those who ...
My friend, Rob, recently spoke on three primary ways that businesses can honor God. The third and final method identified was to glorify God through financially-driven methods. Like Joseph in the Bible, there are leaders who God gives an ability for making money. These successful leaders are often driven to be extremely generous with their wealth. Their generosity funds the ...
Columnist David Brooks has written in the past on the difference between resume virtues and eulogy virtues. Resume virtues are the jobs and career accomplishments you’ve held in your lifetime. Eulogy virtues, however, are your character traits. Brooks concluded that eulogy virtues have longer term value than resume virtues. This became clearer to me at a recent funeral I attended. ...
Coca Cola Consolidated in Charlotte, North Carolina knew Covid was taking a toll on its employees, so they researched ways to help. Their research discovered that many of their employees had spouses who lost jobs due to the pandemic. Coca Cola decided to put these spouses on Coca Cola’s payroll until they could return to work. This amazing act of ...
My friend Jay is a visionary who sees opportunities where others see waste. Being a creative entrepreneur, Jay realized that a lot of businesses, especially retail-oriented ones throw out discontinued or dated inventory that still has value if placed in the right hands. That birthed Agape Inventory Donation. Jay has partnered with many businesses who have inventory that would have ...
Equipping Others to Do Work Differently
