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December 11, 2019 2026-06-05 13:21Blog
Performance Reviews and the Threat Response
Shawn Sommerkamp Is it That Time Again? It’s that time again – performance reviews. Like millions of professionals across America, you work for a company that does either mid-year, end of year or both types of performance reviews. And the feelings of performance review anxiety are like dealing with a rabid dog. I know few employees …
Ever Feel Like Your Career is on a Treadmill?
Are We Really Happier? You have been working hard and now you’ve made it. You achieved your career goal. Life is better now, right? You are much happier now that you’ve settled into that new job, your new boss, the big promotion, new car, or the new job title…right? Not …
Tools – Succession Planning
You’ve heard it before, great leaders raise up others. It sounds wonderful, and even makes sense, and yet if you ask a leader specifically how they do it, often you’ll hear crickets. This is where a Succession Planning worksheet comes in. Using a planning tool that identifies exactly where your …
Christians Have a Distinct Workplace Advantage
Do Christians Really Have a Workplace Advantage? Of course that’s a bold assertion coming from a Christian. You might even say it’s a little presumptuous. The truth is I have been responsible for hiring nearly one hundred employees over my career and have interviewed over a thousand. And as a director …
Tools – Action Priority Worksheet
Perhaps you’ve never heard of an Action Priority Worksheet. Well, your ability to strategically prioritize will, from this day forward, drastically improve…forever. The Action Priority Worksheet is more than just a prioritization tool, it is a new way of thinking about your work efforts. This tool is not the Eisenhower …
Tools – 30-60-90 Day Template
The usefulness of this tool is not in taking it once, although it will help you when you take it now, but taking it once per quarter. It’s a a compact scale for the measurement of psychological well-being developed in 1989 by psychologists Michael Argyle and Peter Hills at Oxford …
Tools – Leadership Wheel Worksheet
The Leadership Wheel worksheet is a simple but effective self-assessment along the eight dimensions of effective leadership. Just as a wheel is smooth when balanced, this tool allows you to better understand where the bumps occur in your leadership role. It will highlight areas of development. These are the areas …
Career Success and Holiness: Are they opposed?
In today’s global economy, society often uses career success to define an individual. Think about how many times you have been asked, “So, what do you do?” Unfortunately, many people use this question as a way of sizing others up. This creates an array of emotional responses too. You might …
Expand My Land or Sell It?
Is it unrighteous and displeasing to God when we are ambitious and professionally driven? An interesting new look at the prayer of Jabez and how it applies to our professional aspirations will shine more light. Jabez prayed to God asking Him to give him more land, to expand his geographic …
Is Prayer Enough
Scenario: You pray, spending a good deal of time talking to God about your career whether it be for more money, lesser hours, a shorter commute etc. Risk: Praying may not be the only thing God calls us to as faithful Christians Solution: Consider the deeper truth behind the Matthew …
