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Faith and Work: How to Be a Christian at Work Without Ruining Your Leadership Effectiveness
Personalized Retreats, Coaching, Blog Jay Desko, Ph.D. Personalized Retreats, Coaching, Blog Jay Desko, Ph.D.

Faith and Work: How to Be a Christian at Work Without Ruining Your Leadership Effectiveness

Christians in the marketplace – it’s where many of us spend the greatest amount of our time, yet our spiritual impact can be limited by our own attitudes and behaviors. Here are six ways to be a Christian at work without ruining your reputation for Jesus. After all, Jesus calls us to be different… not annoying.

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6 Tips to Avoid Leadership Burnout [Hint: Don’t Work Less]
Leadership, Coaching, Crisis, Personalized Retreats, Blog Jay Desko, Ph.D. Leadership, Coaching, Crisis, Personalized Retreats, Blog Jay Desko, Ph.D.

6 Tips to Avoid Leadership Burnout [Hint: Don’t Work Less]

Many people attribute burnout to their jobs. But in reality, what is happening at work is only one contributor to stress and burnout. While stress is always going to be a part of life, there are ways to limit or avoid the negative effects of burnout. Here are 6 tips that can help.

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4 Questions That Will Make the Difference in Choosing Your Next Job
Coaching, Personalized Retreats, Blog Jay Desko, Ph.D. Coaching, Personalized Retreats, Blog Jay Desko, Ph.D.

4 Questions That Will Make the Difference in Choosing Your Next Job

Whether you are 22 or 52, there is a very good chance that you will experience a time when you are trying to figure out “what next?” Over the past 20 years, I have talked with many different men and women, both younger and older, as they wrestle with decisions regarding whether to stay at a job or leave or which out of two or three options may be best.

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Why a Business Owner within Your Church May Need a Consultant

Why a Business Owner within Your Church May Need a Consultant

Leadership can be hard due to the many and varying challenges a leader faces, whether in a church or business context. Proverbs 15:22 reminds us to seek the counsel of wise people. And as a pastor, there may be business owners in your congregation that could be encouraged by the benefits of hiring a consultant. Here are the three main reasons why. 

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Leadership Skills: Reading the Behaviors on Your Team
Coaching, Personalized Retreats, Blog Dave Marks, D.Min. Coaching, Personalized Retreats, Blog Dave Marks, D.Min.

Leadership Skills: Reading the Behaviors on Your Team

In managing a team, it's important that you build good team leadership skills, and one ways to do that is to learn to read the behaviors of your team members. Humans are very complex! Commingling emotion, personality, temperament, intellect, and the motivations of the heart can make understanding what someone really wants hard to decipher. Having finely honed emotional intelligence (EQ) skills allows a leader to read the source of frustration in others and give them what they actually need in order to once again be happily engaged and productive. The following examples show how leaders can help ease tension by paying close attention to how their employees are acting.

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