Category Archives: Leadership Tips

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Do You Clearly See Your Dreams

LEARN IT

  • Peter Marshall stated, give us clear vision that we may know where to stand and what to stand for
  • Michael Hyatt stated if you have a clear vision, you will eventually attract the right strategy. If you don’t have a clear vision, no strategy will save you 
  • Ben Stein suggests the indispensable first step to getting the things that you want out of life is to decide what you want out of life

LIVE IT

  • Do you clearly see your dream?
  • A clear and compelling dream has rescued many organizations
  • Dreams have given meaning and significance to many individuals
  • Significance only comes when the dreams is crystal clear
  • If your dream is not defined – do not pursue it

LEAD IT

  • A clear dream doesn’t become clear without effort
  • A clear dream affirms your purpose
  • A clear dream determines your priorities
  • A clear dream gives direction and motivation to the team
  • Followers will not give their best to something they do not understand
  • Nobody becomes motivated by something they kind of sort of believe in

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Is My Dream Really My Dream

LEARN IT

  • T.S. Eliot stated; Whatever you think be sure it what you think; Whatever you want be sure that it is what you want; Whatever you feel make sure it is what you feel
  • You cannot achieve a dream that you do not own
  • When the dream is right for the person and the person is right for the dream, the two cannot be separated from each other

LIVE IT

Stop offering excuses!

  • Excuse #1 – Dreams don’t come true for ordinary people
  • Excuse #2 – If the dream isn’t big enough it’s not worth pursuing
  • Excuse #3 – Now is not the right time to pursue my dream
  • Peral Buck states the young do not have enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it

LEAD IT

  • Be willing to bet on yourself – you will never succeed if you do not believe in yourself
  • Lead your life instead of just accepting it and calling it fate
  • Love what you do and do what you love
  • Don’t compare yourself and your dream to others
  • Believe in your vision for the future even when others don’t understand you

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Focus On How Far You Can Go

LEARN IT

  • If you possess a fixed mindset, then putting yourself in a growth environment will help you change, grow, and adapt
  • If you possess a growth mindset, then a growth environment will accelerate your development and increase your capacity at a higher rate
  • As a leader, study the characteristics of growth environments of other leaders to create a better growth environment for yourself and your team

LIVE IT

  • Realize others are ahead of you – Learn from them
  • You are continually challenged – Life does not wait on the timid or bashful
  • Your focus must be forward at all times
  • Your environment must be affirming
  • Get out of your comfort zone and into your strength zone
  • Wake up daily excited – New Challenges
  • Failure is not your enemy

LEAD IT

  • How many of the characteristics mentioned do you possess?
  • Whom have you chosen to mentor your life? If you have not chosen, NOW is a good time
  • What is your life direction and how will you get there?

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Strengthen Your Faith

LEARN IT

  • Your faith choice if essential in reaching your fullest potential
  • The faithful practice and participation in your faith declaration will cause you to grow according to Divine Design and purposes
  • When your spiritual potential increases every other part of your life increases as well

LIVE IT

Based upon the Bible Book Ephesians 3:14-20 ……

  • I pray that you will know God
  • I pray that you will experience God’s love
  • I pray that you will allow God to do great things in your life
  • Make room for God – God can
    • Do anything
    • He is bigger than I am
    • Do what I cannot do in my strength

LEAD IT

  • Up to this very day have you ever thought about God?
  • When you read that God loves you no matter what and that you can do nothing to make God love you more than He already does – how does this make you feel?
  • What action do you need to take in response to God’s invitation to you?

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

LEARN IT

  • Not everyone is a natural risk-taker. Are you facing a risky challenge at this moment?
  • Do you desire to do something significant and yet sense something big and risky on the horizon?
  • What does it feel like to be on the edge of risk and significance?

LIVE IT

  • Reality is your friend during high risk times of your life – stay grounded first
  • You must learn to become comfortable outside of your comfort zone. Risk is rarely comfortable!
  • Take the focus off of the man in the mirror. You cannot worry about what others are going to think or fell about your choices. You cannot be afraid of looking bad.
  • Good Leadership gives you a greater chance for success
  • The bigger the risk the more help you will need from others

LEAD IT

  • How good are you at facing reality and assessing the odds when you prepare to take a risk?
  • When preparing to take a big risk how much consideration do you give to leadership and formation of a team?
  • Have you learned to deal with discomfort when getting outside your comfort zone?
  • Have you learned to function in spite of your fear?

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Be Positive Regardless of Circumstances

LEARN IT

  • No single change you make in your life will have a greater positive impact on yourself and others than making a choice to improve your attitude!
  • Your attitude is one of the most pliable parts of who you are
  • When I am in need of an attitude adjustment – practice self-talk
  • When something happens to you recognize that it is external

LIVE IT

  • Remain Humble – It is easier to face life’s difficulties with a spirit of humility
  • Be Teachable – Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person
  • Become Resilient – As much as possible do not let negative experiences take hold of you
  • Keep Perspective – If you live in negativity it is hard to maintain positive perspective on life

LEAD IT

  • Are you paying attention to your self-talk? What does it sound like?
  • What score would you place on the following areas of life – Humility, Teachability, Resilience, Perspective?
  • With so much evidence on the power of positivity, why do people still engage in negativity?
  • Encourage others to be more positive

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Deliberately Pursue Significance

LEARN IT

  • The greatest way for you to upgrade your life is to become intentional with it
  • When you increase your intentionality, everything about your life will begin to change
  • Significance is all about adding value to others. That is an uphill journey!
  • Our natural inclination is to think about ourselves first
  • Selfishness is a downhill habit. Significance is an uphill trait

LIVE IT

  • Every Day Value People
  • Every Day Think of Ways To Value To People
  • Every Day Look For Ways To Add Value To People
  • Every Day Do Things That Add Value To People
  • Every Day Encourage Others To Add Value to People

LEAD IT

  • How do you most enjoy adding value to people?
  • How will you add value to people in the next 24 hours?
  • Who specifically can you encourage to add value to people?
  • What specifically can you can you do to encourage people?

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Focus Now & Follow Through

LEARN IT

  • Successful people are highly disciplined in doing their most important work. They are self-disciplined
  • Most rewards in life involve being willing to do what the majority of people are unwilling to do
  • Success does not come looking for us. Great things are not accomplished accidently
  • Self-discipline is what makes most things possible. Everything worthwhile is UPHILL

LIVE IT

  • Know what is important
  • Get rid of excuses
  • Take action before you feel like it
  • Do not let distractions distract you
  • Pay attention to time

LEAD IT

  • Self-discipline is where time and priorities meet
  • What excuses have become a normal part of your life?
  • What percentage of time do you actually follow through?

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Choice To Believe There Is More Than Enough

LEARN IT

What is it like to live on the other side of “NO”?

  • It is limiting – It takes you away from opportunities
  • It is easy – When you say NO nothing else is required of you
  • It is comforting – It is familiar – you are not risking anything
  • It is deceiving – It appears to be safer when it is not
  • It is crowded – It is where average people hand out

LIVE IT

  • Abundance people possess high belief in themselves
  • Abundance people understand the power of perspective
  • Abundance people are generous to others

LEAD IT

  • When faced with an opportunity, are you naturally a YES person or a NO person?
  • Belief in abundance begins with a belief in yourself. How do you rate your self worth?
  • What are you currently looking at in your life that you say, “There is no way?”

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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Your Character Choices Are Based On Good Values

LEARN IT

  • Your VALUES become deeper and stronger as you age
  • Solid values do not change over time and location
  • Beliefs ebb and flow with time and experience – Values remain constant and sure
  • Values are what shapes character and character provides the foundation of success
  • Strengthening your Values System is life changing

LIVE IT

  • Good Character is a choice you can make every day
  • Good Character speaks louder than words
  • Good Character provides consistency in all aspects of your life
  • Good Character is tested in times of trouble
  • Good Character takes the high road of life
  • Good Character delivers on its promise

LEAD IT

  • If you cannot articulate your values in writing you are daydreaming – WRITE THEM DOWN!
  • How consistent are you in living out your values?
  • Do your values and character choices come into alignment?
  • When dealing with others do you take the Low Road, Middle Road, or High Road?

Shepherds Advantage provides Servant Leadership that helps people close the gap between where they are and where they want to be. Shepherds Advantage closes that gap by providing Leadership Development, Keynote Speaking, and Executive Coaching. 

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