Lifetime Donations Rooted in Lifetime Relationships

The goal of successful fundraising is not a one-time donation. Your goal must be to develop lifetime donors. How do you do that? Aim to have lifelong relationships with your donors.  This idea is ground-breaking. It’s one thing to have a one-time giver, and it’s quite another to engender lifelong relationships with people who desire […]

Should You Loan Money?

Three times in my life I’ve made a loan that I never got back. About 10 years ago I gave a ten thousand dollar loan to a friend who was starting a business. They never paid it back. A few years later, I gave $5,000 to a young man who promised to return it in […]

Two Ways to Grow Your Organization or Team

What kind of growth is most beneficial for your team in this season? As the leader, give yourself and your team permission to reframe the concept of growth for your organization. Growth can either be: deep (improving your organization), or wide (increasing the size or your organization) I have often made the mistake of thinking […]

How to Grow Leaders

It is phenomenal how having healthy, capable leaders around you can make or break your leadership. So what can you do to ensure you have the best leaders around you? Here are ten points I have observed and applied to grow leaders around me. I have found these to be critical in my endeavor to […]

6 Reasons Leaders Don’t Build Relationships with Those They Lead

Are you afraid of building relationships with those you lead? Let me share with you the reasons why most leaders don’t and why they should! As leaders, we need to invest in building relationships that can withstand the howling winds of misunderstanding and change, enduring a lifetime. Relationships that pierce through to the core, and hang […]

When Others See Further Than You Do, Let Them Lead

A few months ago, I decided to renovate my home office. I had already been using our detached guest room as an office, removing the bed and adding some book shelves and a desk, but that was the extent of it. My Zoom meetings did not reflect an adequate background, and the space did not […]

What Memories Are You Making with Your People?

I recently attended a surprise goodbye party for a young lady who worked with our company for about 12 years, who was resigning. Around 20 people gathered, with a lovely spread of food, we each took turns sharing different stories we remembered with that young lady. The room was filled with laughter and tears. In […]

I Trust Your Judgment

Few things bolster our confidence more than when someone expresses confidence in us, especially coming from our leader. I trust your judgment. I recently overheard this statement being shared from one person to another. Those four words, spoken with sincerity, blanketed a soothing balm over the tension that saturated the entire room. It was beautiful.  […]

The Most Crucial Step of Growth

It is immersive and aggressive experiences that cause us to leap to the next step. What experiences contribute most to developing leadership to you? They are those in which you have to perform! No ifs, ands or buts! Experiences where you cannot rely or depend on anyone else to make the tough calls and the […]

Disagreement Makes a Team Powerful

While being disagreeable is detrimental to the chemistry of a team, disagreement can be a powerful catalyst for growth and change. If I see something differently than you, it can be a source of frustration—but it doesn’t have to be. When we allow others to offer opposing views, we create space to highlight what we […]