Category Archives: Leadership Tips

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Your Choice To Take Charge of Your Life

LEARN IT

  • Taking responsibility is the first step in maximizing your potential
  • Responsibility is the most important choice that you make in your life
  • Overcome the tendency to blame circumstances and people for failures
  • Taking responsibility is tied to increasing your success

LIVE IT

  • Responsibility creates the foundation for your success
  • Responsibility will put you in control of your life
  • Responsibility sets the course of your daily activity
  • Responsibility prepares you for action
  • Responsibility makes your habits serve you
  • Responsibility earns you respect and authority

LEAD IT

  • Have you connected the idea of taking responsibility and increasing your potential?
  • Do you think becoming more responsible could help you in your personal life and career?
  • On a scale of 1-10 would you rate yourself when it comes be prepared to take action?
  • What habits will change when you decide to become more responsible?

How do you daily manage the decision to be more responsible?

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Your Ability To Lift Others

LEARN IT

  • Learn to communicate to your Team that you VALUE them
  • Do you have a clue what the value that your Team places upon themselves?
  • Lead your Team in a Growth Environment – Growth is required here!
  • Demonstrate that change is necessary for growth – You change first!
  • How connected are you to your Team?

LIVE IT

  • Demonstrate transparency before challenging your Team
  • Put other people ahead of yourself
  • Learn to measure your success by what you give and not what you gain
  • As challenges escalate Teamwork must elevate

LEAD IT

  • How are you increasing your leadership capacity? Can you list the priorities of life that allow this increase?
  • How well do you connect with people?
  • How well do you challenge people?
  • What changes do you need to make to put others ahead of yourself?

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 Ability To Accomplish Results

LEARN IT

  • How intentional are you about the production of possibilities and solutions?
  • NEWS FLASH: Everything worthwhile, everything you want, everything you desire to achieve, everything you want to receive is all UPHILL!
  • Do you have uphill dreams but are living a downhill lifestyle?
  • A downhill lifestyle is marked by unintentionality, complacency, and excuses.
  • Uphill is hard and requires intentionality and consistency

LIVE IT

  • Do you have vision enough to accomplish what you want?
  • Start working before you know how to accomplish your dreams
  • Learn to Fail Fast, Fail First, and Fail Often
  • Stay focused on your goals longer than any other person
  • Take inventory of your skills and resources – what areas need improvement? What areas need resourced?
  • Stop doing what you are not great at doing

LEAD IT

  • Do you live in the past, always analyzing the present, or acting to improve tomorrow?
  • What does the future look like for you?
  • What downhill habits are you involved in this moment that requires a HARD STOP?

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 Ability To See Options and Find Answers

LEARN IT

  • It is said that we all are born with creativity. However, we lose that creativity as we grow up
  • GOOD NEWS, we all can rekindle the creativity that is within us
  • We can cultivate new pathways of creativity

LIVE IT

  • You must believe there is always an answer
  • You must believe there is always more than one answer
  • Believe that everything and everyone can get better
  • Questions help you to be more creative
  • Become comfortable letting go of what you embraced yesterday

LEAD IT

  • When it comes to problems, challenges and obstacles, do you believe there is always a solution? Why or Why not?
  • Do you find it easy or difficult to let go of past successes or ideas?
  • Can you put together a creative team around you? Do you just retreat to think?

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 Ability To Build Relationships

LEARN IT

  • If your relationships are bad, learn to build better relationships
  • Increase your relational potential
  • Learn to place a higher value on people

LIVE IT

  • Demonstrate care for people daily
  • Make yourself more valuable in your relationships
  • Focus your relationships on benefiting others, not yourself
  • Be a consistent friend in your relationships
  • Unconditionally love people
  • Create memories for people

LEAD IT

  • When you interact with people, where is your focus? Are you thinking how can I help or what can I get?
  • Can you name consistent friends in your life? Who would not be consistent friends?
  • Who do you need in your life to increase your capacity?
  • How would you facilitate connections that you need?

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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Manage Your Emotions

LEARN IT

  • Emotional potential is the ability to handle adversity, failure, criticism, change and pressure in positive ways
  • Most people do not see themselves as they really are
  • Most people do not want to solve their problems, they just want someone to listen to them talk
  • Some people are not emotionally strong and therefore are not able to handle life’s pressures

LIVE IT

  • Strong people are proactive in dealing with their emotions
  • Strong people do not waste time feeling sorry for themselves
  • Strong people do not allow others to control their relationships
  • Strong people do not waste energy on things they cannot control
  • Strong people do not keep making the same mistakes
  • Strong people do not allow the highs and lows to control their lives

LEAD IT

  • Have you considered yourself to be emotionally strong or weak? Why?
  • Which of the previous practices of emotionally strong people are you best at doing?
  • Which of the previous practices of emotionally strong people are difficult for you? Why?

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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Develop The Potential You Already Possess

LEARN IT

  • Your days on earth are numbered – FOCUS is required!
  • Focus your energy by using the 3 R’s
    • REQUIREMENT – what you have to do
    • RETURN – what you do well
    • REWARD – what you love to do

LIVE IT

  • Answer these 5 questions for greater energy
    • When am I fully charged?
    • What wears me down?
    • How accessible are my energy pluses?
    • When do I need to be full of energy?
    • Where is the space for the unexpected?

LEAD IT

  • Become aware of activities, people, tasks, and places that drain your energy
  • Become aware of the activities, people, tasks, and places that give me greater energy
  • What are the areas of your life that you are maximizing your energy?

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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Are You Aware of Your Potential?

LEARN IT

  • What is limiting you from reaching your potential? What is getting in the way?
  • If I do what I have always done, I will get what I have always gotten
  • Change does not have to be drastic to be effective
  • Change is necessary to reach your potential

LIVE IT

  • Understand that your potential is not predetermined and set in stone
  • You can become aware of the possibilities that can make you a better person
  • Look for what you need to know
  • Discovering what you need to know
  • Focus on what you need to know
  • Act upon what you need to do
  • You can remove the CAPS on your capacity

LEAD IT

  • Understand there ae some CAPS on your life you cannot change or remove: Birth and Life Experiences
  • Understand there are caps you can remove
    • Caps that other people place on you
    • Caps we place upon ourself
    • Always looking for approval
  • What is your strategy for developing a greater self-awareness?
  • What are the Birth and Life Caps that you cannot change?
  • What are the Caps that others have placed you that you can remove?

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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People Will Summarize Your Life In One Sentence – Pick It Now!

LEARN IT

  • “I certainly don’t want to be remembered for trophies and national championships. I hope people will remember me as one who was kind and considerate of others.” John Wooden UCLA Bruins Coach
  • Who will attend your funeral?
  • What will they say?
  • How would you summarize your life?

LIVE IT

  • Choose today the legacy you want to leave others. Have you thought about what you want to leave behind?
  • Live today they legacy you want to leave.
  • Appreciate today the value of a good legacy.
  • What kind of bridge are you building for others to walk on?

LEAD IT

  • How important has a legacy been to you? Are you motivated?
  • What exactly is your legacy?
  • Answer these 3 questions
    • What are my responsibilities? What you should do.
    • What are my abilities? What you can do.
    • What are my opportunities? What you could do.

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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You Only Get Answers To The Questions You Ask

LEARN IT

He who asks is a fool for minutes, but he who never asks is a fool forever! – Chinese Proverb

  • When you know the right questions to ask and the right people to go to, you will get the right answers to your questions.
  • Do you have the confidence to ask questions?
  • NO QUESTIONS – NO ANSWERS!

LIVE IT

  • What is your growth plan? Are you willing to invest into yourself?
  • Are you genuinely interested in others? What would others say is your motive in business?
  • Am I doing what I love and love what I am doing? This a passion question.
  • Am I investing time with the right people?  This is a coaching question.
  • Are you staying in your strengths zone? What pulls you away from your strengths?
  • Are you pleasing God with your life? This is a faith question.

LEAD IT

  • Is your ego getting in the way of your growth?
  • How open am I to questions that expose my ignorance and inexperience?

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. 

Shepherdsadvantage@gmail.com