Hard Things To Say As a Leader

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Ron Edmondson

In any relationship, there comes a time where it’s necessary to say things which are difficult to keep the relationship strong and make it better. This is also true in a healthy team environment. For me, this often involves having a hard and challenging conversation with a team member. This is often someone I love [...]

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Leaders: 7 Things, Traits, Characteristics and Definitions

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Ron Edmondson

Healthy Teams After a recent staff meeting, I was thinking about what makes our team at Grace Community Church healthy.  I think healthy teams are intentionally created, so I’m consistently trying to make our environment better. My current thoughts have led me to believe that in our case, it’s as much about what we don’t have [...]

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10 Ways to Encourage Innovation

Posted on January 25, 2011 by Ron Edmondson

I firmly believe it is a mistake of leaders to feel they can force innovation or even create innovative people. Innovation, in its purest form, means change. And while change can be forced upon people, the best changes, the kind that make an organization excellent, come from the heart of a person. Great innovation comes [...]

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Leadership: Encouraging Innovation

Posted on January 5, 2011 by Ron Edmondson

A friend of mine called recently to discuss his business. He wants his employees to assume more ownership for their work and take more initiative on their own, without having to be asked to do something.  He wants to lead an organization that produces innovative leaders, not a bunch of managed followers. Knowing a little [...]

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Respecting Older Employees

Posted on December 29, 2010 by Ron Edmondson

Recently I was in a restaurant and listened to some bickering between waitresses. One of them has worked in the restaurant industry and this particular restaurant for many years. The other waitress is in the first year of her first job. The younger employee refused to take suggestions or advice from the older employee. Although [...]

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You Need a Good Bad Idea

Posted on December 13, 2010 by Ron Edmondson

I love a good bad idea…don’t you? The truth is, in a healthy organization, there really are no bad ideas. At least not in the organizational sense. Here’s what I mean… If you have someone on your team who is coming up with ideas, who is trying to do their best for the organization, who [...]

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7 Steps to (Much) More Effective Meetings

Posted on December 7, 2010 by Ron Edmondson

Successful projects and teams require meetings to accomplish important goals and objectives. Busy leaders, however, are typically anti-meeting because of the interruption they appear to be in the process of getting actual work done. Much of this frustration, I have discovered, is in the lack of proper preparation prior to the meeting.  When done well, time spent [...]

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