Three Realities No One Tells You About Being a Leader
It’s easy to look at the leader of a large company or even a significant project and be a bit envious. Sometimes when we are stuck in the demands of the day we can think to ourselves how good it must be to be in charge of the work and the culture rather than having…
Encourage Healthy Independence and Stop Hovering
Let me start with clarifying the term. What is independence? One definition comes from Multi-Health Systems, a company that specializes in emotional intelligence research and practice. MHS says that independence is the ability to be self-directed and free from unhealthy emotional dependency on others. Someone with healthy independence will be able to make decisions and…
Critical Thinking
Last week Dr. Wingard came on Monday. The students read “God is not Great” which was a challenging read for them as a class because it was very counter what we believe and think. It was difficult to read also because Hitchens the writer seemed to base a lot of arguments on false or skewed…