Relevant Leadership Blog

Listening Equals Love

Have you ever heard or read a quote that made you stop & ask to hear it again?   Yesterday that happened with this quote by David Augsburger: “Being heard is so close to being loved that for the average person they are almost indistinguishable.”   Isn’t that powerful?!   Listening is a skill we all need to work on. Whether it’s in leadership, in relationships, in friendships or parenthood – we can probably all improve in this area.   Especially at a time of crisis when people are hurting, confused, anxious & scared, they need to feel loved (in

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Real Leadership Is About Building Leaders Not Followers

Ralph Nader said that, “The function of leadership is to produce others leaders, not just other followers.”  If that is true then the question becomes how do you produce other leaders? And if our focus is on empowerment and leadership development then the legacy of a leader is not what they do when they are at the helm, but rather what happens after they leave. Two years ago, with this thought process in place, I had a chance to test out some of my theories on leadership and can now measure the result. In June of 2013 I was put

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