Encouragement Changes Everything

Encouragement Changes Everything

This week’s NIV Leadership Bible devotions focused on the leadership skill of Encouragement. In my last post, I mentioned how much I benefitted from my Dad’s encouragement. A few years back, as I was preparing for a promotion at work, I recognized that I needed to be more of an encourager at work, so I did what I generally do in that circumstance…I found a book that would help me out. At that time, I read John Maxwell’s Encouragement Changes Everything: Bless & Be Blessed.

Maxwell’s premise is that people who add value to others almost always do so intentionally. He says that because adding value to others requires a person to give of himself, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Learn more from Maxwell’s perspective and some of the leaders he points to as example Encouragers.

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Are You the Leader You Were Meant to Be?

Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be

LeRoy Eims was a leader with The Navigators—an international, interdenominational Christian ministry that helps people grow in Jesus Christ as they navigate through life—for over 50 years. He wrote several books, including Be the Leader You Were Meant to Be: Lessons on Leadership from the Bible. This one caught my eye, as I was browsing the bookshelves at Mardel one day, so I picked up the Kindle edition…and I’m glad I did.

Eims starts the book, noting that many of us feel insufficient for leadership roles. But he goes on to explain, “So it’s true that we must acknowledge our insufficiency, but it must not stop there. If it does, we are in trouble. We must go on to acknowledge the absolute adequacy and sufficiency of God to meet any test, to overcome any problem, and to win any victory… When we understand that God’s method of accomplishing His plan and purposes is people, we will begin to understand our role in the kingdom of God.”

Click here for Eims’ perspective of who is fit to lead; why some leaders excel; and how leaders get more done and make an impact.