When Big Pieces Fall Into Place

Sometimes the big pieces fall into place. It's really something special when that happens.

I love to watch new construction. Maybe it comes from the 15 years of owning a carpentry business. I love to watch each and every step of the process. Mostly a whole lot of little things happen that seem to represent incremental progress and then all of the sudden the day comes when it appears that a huge gain is made. The whole floor goes on, the walls go up or the roofing is complete.

• Big gains representing a big move forward. 
• Very satisfying to look back on. 
• Increasing a sense of what's possible.
• Creating new energy for what is to follow. 

I'm sure you can see the obvious comparison with life, work and leadership. It's really no different. We seemingly plod along, doing all the prep work, putting in place the day by day pieces ... and then ... a big move forward.

Our thinking is like that as well. Every so often we receive a big "aha!" and away we go, propelled forward by a new sense of purpose and the fresh energy to pursue it.

As a professional coach, I am privileged to see this frequently with my clients. It's a wonderful thing to behold. And it seems to me that all of the weekly work my clients do "suddenly" pays off.  I remember a quote I once heard that went something along the lines of, "I spent 15 years to become an overnight success." Overnight success was the big piece. A lot preceded it.

My point? Don't begrudge the day to day work. It's necessary. But get ready, be prepared, stand alert for the big piece to come along when you least expect it. Knowingly or not, the prep work has been done, the groundwork has been laid and something good is on its way.

Stay alert. Because when it happens, you're going to love it.

Meanwhile, be persistent and just know that you are doing what needs to be done.

Benefits of Dealing with Burnout

I suppose it goes without saying, but there are many benefits of dealing with burnout. Every week I work with leaders and professionals who are experiencing significant stress. Either they are in overload and overwhelm and on the verge of burnout and disillusionment or they are in fact … experiencing burnout.

Carefully I walk them through my three part program to deal with burnout.

1. Resolution – Deal with their immediate situation to reduce some of the stress so they can think straight and design a game plan for moving forward.
2. Transition – Find and adopt new strategies for the days to come. You can’t very well solve problems by continuing to do the same things over and over. And finally …
3. Continuity – Make sure the client has made transitions to new ways of thinking and behaving AND that those new strategies have taken root and become the norm.

What do clients get by walking through this simple but profoundly changing step by step process? I’d like to suggest some of the following as reported benefits of dealing with burnout that I have heard. I don’t need to make much comment on them. They are fairly self-explanatory. And they are benefits that everyone experiencing this significantly painful time in their lives would like to have. Here are just a few.

Physical Realm

• Able to start exercising again
• Back aches stop
• Weekly trips to chiropractor stop
• Panic attacks reduce to zero over time
• Get to sleep easier
• Get a better sleep – waking up more relaxed
• Have more physical energy
• Sporadic and strange aches and pains drastically decrease
• Skin irritations stop

Time Realm

• Feel like they get weekends back
• Feel like they get weeknights back
• They once again have choice about what they want to do
• More time to work on projects they care about

Relationship Realm

• More positive relationships begin showing up
• Their mind isn’t preoccupied when with their spouse – totally present again
• Their mind isn’t preoccupied when with their children – totally present again
• Time to enjoy good friends once again

Everyday Living Realm

• Feel more relaxed
• Able to enjoy a hobby if they have one
• Made some long-needed and healthy decisions
• Brought their life into line with the truths they believed
• Discovered or made more personal space – some time to recharge

Opportunity Realm

• Dreaming about possibilities again
• Got to take what they are learning and help others
• Regained the excitement of God opening up new doors

Emotional Realm

• More contentment with their circumstances
• Brighter outlook on life
• Feel like their emotional energy was being renewed
• Sense of regaining control
• Relief from the pressure of worry

Spiritual Realm

• Created the time to connect with God in prayer and the Word once again
• Began to see people (often the source of burnout) through God’s eyes
• Once again connected with God’s people in healthy and enriching relationships
• Developed a core of people who prayed for them daily
• Allowed space for God to work in grace

I think you would agree with me that these benefits of dealing with burnout were worth reaching for. I want to encourage you. Please take the fourth step in my Beat Burnout Plan … Prevention. Prevent the slippery slide into the ways of thinking and behaving that can lead to burnout in the first place. Pursue health and personal and professional effectiveness. Be proactive in the first place and you will reap the benefits that so many leaders, executives and professionals long for this very day.

Managing Your Time is All About Managing Yourself

Managing your time is all about managing yourself.

Often we think it’s about managing segments, little chunks of time measured in hours, half hours, quarter hours or less. Then our attempt at managing our time happens like this:

• We have a volume of things that need doing.
• We divide the day up into more and more little segments.
• We search for better positioned segments so we can shove more of the 'to-do' into them.
• Meanwhile, we divide all the things to do into priorities.
• Then we put 70% of the priorities in the top priority list and try shoving those in the new little segments we just made.

What we’re really doing is going faster and faster and shoving more and more in. After all, almost everything in our life is a priority, isn’t it? Then for all our efforts we slide down the slippery slope of stress, overload and burnout.

We really ought to manage ourselves and ask, “What are the vital few things that are the truly important?” Those are the things I will get done. It’s not seven out of my list of ten important things to get done. It’s only two. Maybe it’s only one. Start and do those. The others will disappear, fade in significance or step in line to take their turn as one of the vital few later on.

Until we start acting on this for ourselves, we’ll be caught in this race. Somewhere we have to break the cycle and say, “This is where it stops.” Practicing that Law of the Vital Few will make us much more satisfied, thorough and successful.

Often we want to squeeze more and more productivity out of a given period of time, so we shove other things aside, things like renewal and relationships, fostered primarily through pausing. We continue to accumulate a greater volume of things, and our body is saying, “No, I can’t handle this.“ Stress, tiredness, muscle pain, dissatisfaction and a sense of a lack of well-being become our lot in life.

Adopt the practice of timely management from the Law of the Vital Few. Take your personal best 20% as your springboard for building the future. Where in the past did I have my most success? Identify that small amount of time and duplicate it for today as much as you can. Say, “These are the vital few things that I must do now, and while I am taking care of these vital few, I will delegate, hold till a more appropriate time or give away to others, the things that I am not able to do.”

If you are dealing with a volume of time commitments placed on you from the outside, then you have to work with the issues of boundaries as well .You may have to set boundaries around people imposing on your time. Let the voice mail get the telephone after certain hours and raise a personal standard that says, “I am not going to work after this hour.”  If it’s sheer volume you may need to look at ways to do it more efficiently. On the other hand you may need to talk frankly to others about helping you. They may be in positions of authority or control to make some changes for you.

It’s not just about time management but timely management of you.

This may be one of the most common areas that executives and leaders wish to work on during our coaching engagements. We live in a world that pushes almost every leader and professional into a crunch for time. There are solutions. They don’t always come easy. People often fear doing what is required, thinking they will lose ground and fall behind. But once solutions are put in place and traction is being experienced, leaders find that in fact they can achieve more, do better and actually begin to thrive.

Really, you can read all you want about time management and you can think about alleviating the stress until the cows come home. But until you make a major decision to do something about it, you will only amass literature and dissatisfaction. Take action today.

Helping Boards through Significant Periods of Change

I have started a series of posts for Christian Coaches Network, CCN, titled, “Coaching a Board Through Major Transition”. This is not unfamiliar territory to me. Although you may be brought in as a coach at a challenging time in the history of the organization and although your assignment can meet with some challenging personal encounters with the stakeholders … it can be done and done successfully.

The CCN posts are a 7-part series discussing how to coach your board through major transition even if you are not a professional coach. They will be posted on succeeding Wednesdays. The first of the series is here, http://ccn.christiancoaches.com/blog/coaching-a-board-through-major-transition-part-1/

While engaged with a board I alternate between working with the whole board, both offering facilitation and coaching and working with the individuals on the board. I believe it is important to focus on the individual between group calls, draw out latent strengths that they may have and bring their vision for the organization and its desired outcomes to the fore.

In many smaller organizations, the leader may traditionally have taken charge and a situation of over-dependence on their word and direction may exist. There may be assumptions that the leader is on top of the situation the organization is currently facing. This may or may not be true. It is vital to see each member of the board as a leader in their own right, with meaningful contribution to make to the planning and decision making process. If they have nothing to contribute, they should not be there.

Critical to this coaching assignment is keeping things moving forward. It’s not hard for time to drag on. A week can quickly expand to two or three and little has been achieved. Most often board members think the leader is doing all that needs to be done. They need to be engaged fully in navigating through this period of significant change as well.  

I find that respecting one another’s style of operating during this time is crucial. People are just different. That’s not good or bad, right or wrong, just different. It’s important that as I have people dialog with one another they can begin to respect how their fellow board member views and approaches things and how their differing perspectives and approaches can actually supplement each other and work for the ultimate good in achieving the aims of the organization.

Additionally, I find that I need to help the board in avoiding tunnel vision. It’s easy for a board, regardless of size to become fixated on a particular course of action or approach or way of thinking that throttles down their ability to deal adequately with what is really going on. They need to widen their vision, explore other possibilities and in general be much more cognizant of those things that could accelerate them toward positive solutions and outcomes.

Lastly, I have found that it is important to keep the ball in their court. It’s too tempting to bring in a third party and conveniently abdicate responsibility. It provides for a ready scapegoat but it doesn’t help the organization at all. Change, even during stressful times, remains the responsibility of the client, in this case the board. I can’t make them do anything and I won’t take responsibility for what they are unwilling to do and any consequences that may follow. Keep the ball in their court.

If you’d like to read more about coaching a board through major transition, head on over to the CCN blog and follow the posts that come out each Wednesday for the next several weeks. You can read the introductory post here, http://ccn.christiancoaches.com/blog/coaching-a-board-through-major-transition-part-1/

How God Uses Leaders and Individuals to Benefit People

My passion and focus for many years now, has been to work alongside and serve Christian men and women who lead causes, projects and programs that care about and benefit people all around the world.

I was encouraged recently by a paragraph in a J. Sidlow Baxter devotional from his book Awake My Heart. This passage shows what God is willing to do with men and women … indeed any leader including those who direct the affairs of a nation … who will “receive”. 

When we discern what it is He wishes to do in the time in which we live and we pray and make ourselves available to Him, there is no telling what can be accomplished.

“All the blessings in our own country, we owe to the fact that Jesus came, in the days of our forefathers. All the noblest legacies of our social order come, either directly or indirectly, from  the impact of the Christian faith upon our history. our democracy, our public educational system, our universities, our philanthropic and healing institutions – trace them all back to their origins, and what do you find? We own them all to JESUS, the great Liberator of men and nations. It is JESUS who has always proved the supreme Benefactor.”

Be encouraged Christian leader, executive, owner, professional. As you receive His grace for your efforts this day, there is no telling what He might set in motion for the good of those around you.

The benefit of the products or services you provide can impact your own town or city, your nation or around the world. 

I remember praying many years ago that I could play a part in serving people all around the world. I have seen many of the young men and women we worked with over the years go on to become leaders and professionals in that very arena. As a professional Executive Coach, I work with men and women, leaders, executives, owners and professionals from around the world. When I had the privilege of leading Christian Coaches Network, I was able to encourage and support professional Christian Coaches who were influencing and working in areas that covered the globe. 

So you never know how God may be pleased to use you as you make yourself available to Him. Whether it's downtown or 5000 miles away, He is positioning you and opening doors of opportunity for you to care about people and be a help to them, maybe in the most simple of ways. 

Take a walk around your local neighborhood. Study a map of the world. You've just looked at scope or your possibilities. 


 

New American Standard Large Print Reference Bible

I recently purchased a New American Standard large print ultrathin reference Bible from Foundation Publications. But that will come later in the story that follows.

I used my first two New American Standard Bibles from around 1973 until 1994 when I began using the New International Version publicly.

I have really appreciated my NIV Ultrathin Reference Edition since 1994. It’s been a great Bible. I used it through a lot of years of working with people. But I began looking for two things about six months ago. I wanted a NIV that gave me more space to write notes. I’ve been hoping to bring all the “keeper” notes from all my Bibles together in one volume. Additionally I was interested in getting another Scofield Reference Bible. I had a Scofield King James for awhile, not long after I became a Christian many years ago.

I purchased the NIV Scofield Study Bible III from Oxford University Press – Basketweave Black/Acorn, 6371RRL. When I first opened it I thought, “This is fantastic.” Wonderful Bible … except for two things – the thumb index, which will be a sure wear point for someone who uses their Bible a lot and the bulkiness of the Bible – a full 3 pounds according to our scales and a little over 1-1/2 inches thick. Now it’s not as thick as some of these other note laden versions out there, but for me it is a bit of a negative. So the jury is out on this Bible. I’ve since come to appreciate the fact that this excellent Bible has the “original” NIV text.

I called the company but there are no Bibles in this format to be had without the thumb index.

Okay. That’s Bible number one. Maybe you’re developing a picture of a picky Bible user. I’ll admit it. Probably like most other leaders, I am. It’s important to me.

Now the story becomes more expensive. Part of the problem is that you can’t see all the Bibles physically, pick them up and examine them. You order them from little pictures and (often incorrect or sloppy) short descriptions.

This big, thumb indexed Bible just hasn’t managed to cut it for me. Maybe it will later, but I’ll have to lift more weights to stand up front and teach from it much. Again … maybe later.

So I took a different approach and purchased another Bible. This time I was traveling and found a Large Print NIV Thinline Reference Bible in a Christian bookstore. Great Bible. Love the feel of it. I didn’t realize until then how much I might like the large print. ISBN 9780310436362. So I took it with me when we went on a little holiday and did a lot of reading. What’s this? The wording departed from the NIV text I had used for so many years. In some places disturbingly so (to me).

I realized I had purchased the 2011 version of the NIV. I won’t even go there in terms of the translation. Suffice it to say that I am having a tough time using it. I feel sad that we have this new translation of the NIV out there and the original translation won’t even be available for purchase anymore. I’ve spent a lot of hours reading up on just what gave us this particular translation and I (that’s me personally) just don’t feel comfortable using it publicly. (At this point neither the text nor the reviews convince me it is wise [for me] to use it.) This is very regrettable to me. (Don’t write me nasty comments. They will not be posted.) And it led me to make one more purchase.

One more purchase… I know – it’s adding up.

I made the trip back to the very accurate, but updated word for word NASB translation that I had used for so many years. ISBN 9781581351316, Style #1563. This is a beautiful Bible. As I mentioned it is the updated NASB, and does not contain the original version’s thee’s and thou’s etc. This Bible is large print with a font size of 10. Let me tell you it is wonderful to read.

• The Bible cover measures 7 X 9-3/4 inches.The pages themselves about 6-5/16 inches by 9-1/4 inches.
• This Bible is about 1-5/16 inches thick. It’s great to hold in your hand and easy to flip to a new reference.
• The top margin gives you just a little less than ½ inch to write in.
• The bottom margin gives you about 3/8 inch.
• The side margin affords 5/8 inch writing space.
• And close as I can tell the inside margin is about ½ inch, but it is really hard to write much beyond 3/8 of an inch content in that gutter.
• I bought the genuine leather, $49.95 through Amazon.

This NASB Bible has great references. I must say I always thought the NIV references did not even compare with the quality of the NASB references, so I am happy to have them back. The language is somewhat more ‘clunky’ than NIV and you have to weigh that up when you are using it for public reading.

So there you have it. 

A Scofield original NIV that I would love to use were it lighter, less thick and didn’t have those irritating thumb index things.

An ‘Updated’ NIV with what has become a controversial translation. Great to hold though.

And another great to hold, New American Standard, super because I like to know what the original languages say even though I don’t know Hebrew or Greek, but a little clunky for using with other people at teaching and study times.

For me, will it be … Scofield ‘original’ NIV or a return to the NASB? Not sure yet. For now I am really enjoying the NASB. I am recalling that so much of the scripture I memorized by constant reading actually occurred using this version. For now it’s really a thrill to get back into  it.

So we’ll see as time goes on. I guess my original goals of Scofield NIV are going to be hard to meet in a Bible that seems the right size and has no thumbed index. And that Scofield does have lots of room for the notes I wanted … and it does have some great notes of its own. On the other hand, I have appreciated the return trip to the NASB and it’s word for word approach, loads of solid references and that larger print … mostly kind of like discovering an old friend was in town.

Update: July 13, 2012  I've been using the NASB and absolutely loving it. It's a great Bible all the way round. Over time I've been doing a lot of comparing with other translations on my iPhone Bible program (Laridian). The NASB (to me) is as easy to read as the ESV. ESV seems pretty 'clunky' also. It about evens out for those two very good translations. I've spent a chunk of time also comparing HSCB translation and it just hasn't rung bells for me. I'm glad its there for another translation for me to refer to. 

So ... for now it's the NASB ... and gladly so. 

 

When it Has to Be Done And You Have to Do It

At any given time in my coaching practice, I work with leaders and professionals who are experiencing overload. Overload to me means "too much." They are stretched to the limit. They haven't hit burnout, but if the present trend continued on for long, it would be the next stage of "too much."

As a Christian worker, I know the territory well and have looked for some answers to one particular question. "When it has to be done, and you have to do it, and it's just too much, what can you do?"  There are no easy answers, but I think there is help.

First, let's get a taste of the criticism leveled by others who mean well, but don't always understand.

"He must not be able to delegate."

• There are some things that are sensitive enough that they can't be delegated.
• Sometimes the people who could make themselves available, don't.
• If it needs to be done now and in the midst of a tight schedule, sometimes showing someone how can take far, far longer than just doing it yourself.

"He must not be able to manage his time very well."

• Even the best time manager hits periods of "too much" when volume is the challenge, not efficiency.

"He must be a workaholic."

• The work does have to get done.
• Deadlines are important.
• Others may leave for home before the work is finished.

"So and so did that for years, and we never heard a complaint from them."

• But good old so and so was a different person who lived a different life in a different time.
• Our emotional energy levels are different.

So what CAN you do? For those of you who know what I am talking about, you know the answers don't come easy. This is what I have concluded thus far. I realize that each of the points may be hard fought for you, and only you will understand that they are not an attempt at trite, pat answers.

1. When it has to be done, God will give what you need to get it done. If God has asked you to be in the situation you are in, then he will give strength for it commensurate with the need. If He has allowed you to be in this problematic situation, be certain that He is there with you. You are not left alone.
2. Break it down into as small of pieces as you can. Emotionally you can handle something smaller easier than a large overburdening "must." Writing it down can often change the nature of anxiety and ease the pressure. 
3. Take conscious breaks, even if they are short. Be conscious of God with you. Focus on enjoying something totally unrelated to the task. Celebrate completion and success at each and every stage.
4. Tell the truth. Be very clear about what is going on. Cut through any emotional layers and state objectively what is happening or not happening. Look at it from other people's points of view also. Solving something that doesn't really exist won't work. Solving the symptom rather than the cause doesn't work long term either. But if you can name the real problem, you can be intentional about addressing it.
5. Start planning for the long term. If there is a problem, you can't solve it today. But you can begin to develop a strategy that will address the problem down the road.
6. Consider your future. Extend the present conditions out another 5 years. Can you see yourself there? If you can then God will give you everything you need for staying put. If you can't, then radical changes may be in order. This isn't easy. Our lives are complex. There may be a whole number of indicators coming together that it is time to move on.
7. Share with others. Find those who understand. They may not be able to change the situation, but they can listen. Find prayer partners. Prayer support is the single most powerful tool to sustain you and give you direction. Intentionally carve out the time to work with a personal Coach to see yourself and your situation clearly and know what to do next.
8. Finally … get some good laughs. Find some funny people to be with. Carve out the time to do it and have some good fun. Taking things seriously all the time is a drag.

These are a few suggestions you might try incorporating into your own experience. But do take ownership of something instead of letting resentment and bitterness build over everyone leaving you holding the bag.

It’s not the volume of work that has the biggest potential to lead to burnout; it’s the feelings toward your own situation, your perceived lack of control and your attitudes toward the people around you that will bite you.

Taking care of some of the basics can go a long way to addressing these things. Look, there are times as leaders that we just need to do what needs to be done. No amount of griping about it will change the fact. But the attitude I choose to adopt can make the difference between getting it done with some degree of joy and making it a miserable experience altogether. Let’s aim for the former.

Tim Hortons, Entrepreneurial Success

Dream, values, willingness to work, principles, service, quality … made Tim Hortons a part of Canadian life.

Those times I travel out of the country, I find myself anticipating getting home and stopping at “Tims” – somehow seems like I’ve arrived back in the familiar and secure. Seems a lot of us think this way in Canada. And jumping in the car and traveling right within our own country is often measured, for many of us, by the distance between Tim Hortons stops.

“Let’s stop and have a coffee.” You guessed it. Tim Hortons.

“You want to go out for a coffee?” Ditto. Same.

“Where should we meet?” Yep. You got it.

Now I’ll confess. Tim Hortons missed out on a lot of coffee money from me throughout most of my life. I never drank coffee until just a year or so ago. I never really liked it. Then I had an epiphany of sorts. Drinking coffee might be a substitute for drinking what I saw as too many sugar loaded products. I still barely drink any other coffee (still don’t care for it), but I can certainly entertain a Tim Hortons coffee. It’s become my gold standard against which others are judged.

And just for the record ... in case it crossed your mind. All those coffee cups you see in the picture above? Collected over time. I could never drink that much coffee in a day.

Well, the point is not my particular consumption or tastes in coffee but the fact that Tim Hortons is around at all on a national landscape the size of Canada and that it plays so big in the psyche of we Canucks. Certainly it’s the coffee and donuts and the familiar shop in every town, but it’s just as much the support of kid’s hometown soccer and hockey, the youth camps, Roll Up The Rim to Win and various other activities this company engages in. They’ve made themselves a presence. They’ve interwoven themselves in the fabric of community life in a way, at least from an observer’s point of view, most of us can admire in a corporate citizen.

Former Tim Hortons, Marketing Director, Ron Buist, in his book, Tales From Under the Rim recounts:  

“Tim Hortons started with nothing more that a dream, a few dollars, and personal values that came from starting life during the Great Depression: the willingness to work as hard and as long as the job required; the acceptance of the principle that, to spend a dollar, you had to have a dollar; and the drive to make the most of whatever resources might be at hand. Supplying neighbourly service and great donuts and coffee twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, with consistent high quality in every single store have made Tim Hortons a part of Canadian life.”

There’s something in there for those of us who are entrepreneurs or lead businesses and organizations. Good things can happen with creative thinking and hard work. As Ron Buist points out, it probably won’t happen overnight and it will probably mean a lot of inconvenience and sacrifice for a time … but it can happen.

Okay, maybe most of us won’t be a Tim Hortons … but we won’t know until we go for it will we? They started with only one storefront. Who knows what might happen when we apply ourselves to the task with the tools that made ‘Timmys’ great … dreams, values, willingness to work, principles, a belief in service and a pursuit of quality.

All that having been said, let’s have a coffee.Tims anybody?

Clarity Model Training for Christian Coaches

The next Clarity Model Training for Christian Coaches will begin on Tuesday, July 10 at 6:30 PM Eastern.

It's probably not often that the course will be taught at this time, but a number of coaches said they would benefit from the evening start. So here it is.

You still have time to register for Level I. Register Here. You can register for Level II and Level III in a few weeks.

The Clarity Model is a tool that can be easily used in coaching, consulting or general planning and troubleshooting. It is absolutely versatile. It does not matter the coaching methodology you were trained in. The Clarity Model will work for you. In fact it will improve your opportunities to provide value added support to your clients.

You will find yourself using this flexible tool in all sorts of situations outside of coaching too. Every week, course participants report on how the model was able to be of assistance personally, at home, in another work setting, with a friend, at church, in leadership or in helping another organization.  

This is a substantive course with comprehensive training. After week one, you will be able to start using the tool in all sorts of situations.

Once you graduate Levels I, II and III you will be considered Clarity Alumni and will be able to attend any following Level I, II and III training at no extra cost.

Executive Coach, Gary Wood, will be your instructor. The course is highly interactive and you'll have lots of time to contribute and build on each others ideas.

The next course starts, Tuesday, July 10 at 6:30 PM Eastern. 

To register of for further information.

New Leadership at Christian Coaches Network

I am pleased to announce a new leader at Christian Coaches Network. As of July 1, 2012, Marcie Thomas has taken over from me as President and Director of this great organization.

I have been honored to work with the hundreds of Christian coaches who form the CCN membership. These coaches cover every area of professional coaching imaginable. They are a very, very smart and engaged group of people with a love for the Lord and a passion to help people, organizations and communities.

As far as practical help to CCN, I will not be going far. I’ll be available to the new Director in an advisory capacity, facilitating some CCN calls and in general being an ambassador for an organization I think is both worthy and worthwhile.

Being able to pass along responsibilities means I am more able to concentrate my time on my past and existing clients (and of course future ones) and on building out the increasingly in-demand Clarity Model Training.
It will also allow me to spend more time training and presenting on practical leadership topics and teaching the Word both locally and as I am privileged to speak and teach further abroad.

So … an exciting time ahead for me, and a new chapter for Christian Coaches Network. If you are a coach or considering becoming one, I encourage you to check the organization out. The cost of membership is unbelievably low in my opinion for all that you get.

And if you are looking for a personal coach … whether life, leadership, career, executive, wellness etc., this is the place to find them. Go to the Find a Coach area of their website and find the individual who can best assist you.

Of course, if you are a leader or executive looking for an executive coach,  please contact me and I would be pleased to have an exploratory conversation with you. If you are a Christian Coach, plan on taking Clarity Model Training sometime soon. You will be glad you did.