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Leadership is Helpfulness

November 3, 2017 By drairwolf 1 Comment

In the end, everyone’s simply looking for a way to sweeten their deal. This is what our trainer at Bartell & Bartell shared while teaching us about personality assessment. He meant that if most people were honest, they’re just looking for a way to make things a little better for themselves. It was in this context […]

Filed Under: blog, Leadership Tagged With: leadership, servant leadership

3 Complications with Looking for Church Volunteer Leadership

October 24, 2017 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

Where are the Leaders?  Churches, like most organizations, are always looking for leaders. I recently read an interesting article meant to help church leaders determine whether congregants are leaders or simply doers. Although I agree developing leaders is one of the greatest challenges any organization faces, I disagree with placing people in these two categories. […]

Filed Under: blog Tagged With: church leader, church leadership, leader, leadership

3 Essential Leader Types for a Great Team

July 24, 2017 By drairwolf 1 Comment

It Takes a Team There’s something about leadership teams. Whether in cartoons, sports, or in real life, we somehow instinctively get that we need the various gifts and strengths of others to succeed as a leader. It may be easy to understand this need as an essential concept, but it’s a lot harder to think […]

Filed Under: blog, Leadership Tagged With: leader, leadership, team, teamwork

Why Can’t Everyone Lead Like You

June 29, 2017 By drairwolf 2 Comments

Law of the Hammer  Have you ever noticed how easy it is to view your leadership style as superior to others? If you lead with your gut and make quick decisions, it’s difficult when others take their time. But, on the other hand if you lean towards facts and figures, it’s frustrating when those around […]

Filed Under: blog, Leadership Tagged With: leader, leadership, leadership style, personality

360 Degree Parenting Leadership Feedback

July 25, 2016 By drairwolf 4 Comments

Greater personal insight leads to better leaders. The better we understand and develop our strengths, while facing and working on our weaknesses, the stronger leader we’ll become. We understand this at work, so many jobs offer a 360 degree feedback loop where peers and subordinates have a chance to rate a co-worker in certain categories. […]

Filed Under: blog, Leadership, Parenting Tagged With: 360 degree feedback, feedback, kids, leadership, leadership-based parenting, leading parent, parent-leader, parenting

What is Thorne Inc.?….from my weird family to yours: part 2

April 29, 2016 By drairwolf 1 Comment

What is Thorne Inc.?  Thorne Inc. is an imaginary company based around the everyday happenings of my family. As I write about leading my family, it gives me a place to apply leadership principles I’m learning in my leadership master’s degree and also an outlet for humor. You can read more why I created Thorne […]

Filed Under: blog, humor, Parenting Tagged With: funny, humorous kids, kids, leadership, life with kids

Making Decisions that Won’t Make Your Kids Crazy

March 18, 2016 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

How does your family make decisions? I’m talking about things like: what kids should wear to school, eat for breakfast,  haircut to get, sport to play, what the family will eat for dinner,  do on the weekend, and do with their free time? Families make a lot of decisions. One study on leadership determined there are 4 main […]

Filed Under: blog, Leadership, Parenting, personality Tagged With: autocratic, consensus, consultive, decision-making, democratic, family, leadership, leadership style, parenting funnel

Every Family Needs a Vision

February 22, 2016 By drairwolf 3 Comments

Every great company begins with a vision. A vision is an inspiring but simple word picture of a future you hope to create. I love how John Maxwell explained, “Vision is everything for a leader. It paints the target. It sparks and fuels the fire within, and draws him forward…Show me a leader without vision, […]

Filed Under: blog, Parenting Tagged With: dream, family, family help, fatherhood, future, leadership, leadership-based parenting, vision

The Most Important Question a Leader Asks

February 5, 2016 By drairwolf 1 Comment

I recently began a management and leadership degree and realized something very important about leading others. I’m working on two classes and both challenge me to grow by answering a critical question, possibly the most important question- Who am I? The better I understand myself as a leader (strengths, weaknesses, personality, leadership style), the better […]

Filed Under: blog, church, discipleship, Life, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: Jeremiah, journey, leader, leadership, Martin Luther King, more, prophet, The Leadership Challenge, Todd Wilson

I Believe in Leaders Who…

June 9, 2015 By drairwolf Leave a Comment

Last week I was meeting with a group of 15 leaders from Velocity and I asked them to finish the sentence, “I believe in leaders who…” I thought I’d share the list of characteristics they came up with. I believe in leaders who… Listen Don’t ask people to do things they aren’t willing to do […]

Filed Under: blog, church, discipleship, Leadership, Spiritual Growth Tagged With: characteristics, leadership, personal growth

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