Employee Resource Groups are voluntary, employee-led groups made up of individuals who join together based on common interests, backgrounds or demographic factors. Surprisingly, the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation's new Corporate Religious Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (REDI) Index, ranked Google, Intel, and Tyson at the top for recognizing the importance of their employees faith, in part due to the use of Employee ...
At a staff meeting, we were discussing holiday time-off. I said, “Our landlord is taking an extra day off for the holidays. We can do that as well if you want. It doesn’t matter to me because I’ll probably work that day regardless.” Later, one of my staff called me out on my foolish statement. I was told, “You made us ...
Organizational health is the framework many business coaches use to help optimize all the functional areas of business. The parts of the body can be used as a tool to demonstrate a healthy organization. The heart represents (core values & mission), the head (innovation & development), the hands (processes & systems) and feet (sales & marketing). Ephesians 4:16 says, “Christ, from ...
A common business strategy is to focus the team toward tackling the “low hanging fruit,” pursuing quick wins instead of the larger, more difficult challenges. An article by The Balanced Career warns, “True rewards often come from climbing higher and stretching for the real treasure in the higher branches.” The high hanging fruit represents the more difficult challenges. These challenges will ...
Dave Mattson with Sandler Training wrote, “Working as a team allows team members to take more risks, as they have the support of the entire group to fall back on in case of failure.” Teams provide collaboration and appropriate division of tasks based on skills. Teams also provide safe places to take risks. 1 Corinthians 1:10 says, “I appeal to ...
Teamwork is an important aspect of growing organizations. An article by Sandler Training states, “Tackling obstacles and creating notable work together makes team members feel fulfilled.” Teamwork builds camaraderie around achieving a common goal. The possible rewards from teamwork are vast. Job fulfillment and satisfaction for the employees and a greater level of loyalty for the company provides the ultimate ...
Nehemiah’s vision for rebuilding Jerusalem is only two verses long, but it identifies four elements helpful in casting vision to others. The fourth and final element is “sharing your reason for hope.” Nehemiah was a newcomer to Jerusalem tackling a project that had been tried multiple times over a period of 93 years unsuccessfully. Nehemiah, however, had great hope because ...
Nehemiah’s vision for rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem is only two verses long, but it identifies four elements helpful to us in our own vision casting opportunities. The third element is to “make an emotional appeal.” People typically get behind a project based on their emotional connection to the project. In Nehemiah 2:17, Nehemiah said, “You see the bad situation ...
Nehemiah successfully rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem partly because of his effectiveness in casting vision. Nehemiah’s vision casting is only two verses long, but it identifies four elements helpful to us in our own vision casting opportunities. The second element is to “propose the solution.” People don’t want to work on a futile project. Your solution doesn’t have to be ...
Nehemiah needed to convince the Jews to rebuild the walls around Jerusalem. A poor job of casting vision could have stopped or hindered his project. Nehemiah’s vision casting is only two verses long, but it identifies four elements that may be helpful to us in our own vision casting opportunities. The first element is to “clearly state the problem.” Nehemiah ...
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