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covering topics like management, leadership, and integrating your faith in the workplace.

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Total Quality

What Is The Point of Total Quality?

  • 14 Keys to achieving Total Quality in any organization,
  • 9 Obstacles to establishing Total Quality in any organization.
High Performance Team

What Are the Essential Elements You Need to Build A High-Performance Team?

  • A broader discussion of the importance of planning, 
  • 7-steps to get started developing your team.
Planning

The Importance of Planning

  • 4 Important Elements of Short-term Plans
  • 5 Steps to Get Started Building Strategic Plans
  • The Profile of an Effective Planner
Work Purpose

Does Your Work Matter? The Role of Business in Society

  • Individual Purpose versus Business Purpose,
  • The Examples of Solomon and David,
  • Our Sphere of Influence,
  • Getting Started, and
  • Paul's 15 Guidelines for Employees.
Manage Change - Buggy

Managing Change--Your Key to Increased Productivity in the 21st Century!

  • Examples of rapid change in industry,
  • 7 elements of the anatomy of change, and
  • 11 Steps to promote acceptance of change in your organization.
Mentoring Strategic Choice

Mentoring - A Lifestyle for Growth

  • A broader discussion of the mentoring relationship,
  • The five essential attributes of a mentor,
  • The importance of allowing a mentee to fail, and
  • Six steps to help you start a formal mentoring program.
Shifting Paradigm
  • Understanding what a paradigm shift is,
  • How the Swiss Blew their Opportunity,
  • The Fall of Books and Magazines, and
  • Forecasting Paradigm Shifts.
Yoked Relationships Ox

Yoked Relationships--If You're an Ox Don't Team Up with A Donkey!

  • What constitutes a yoke?
  • Is a partnership a yoke?
  • Is stock ownership a yoke?
  • 5 tips for creating a successful partnership.
Woman Ladder
  • 4 areas of the candidate's work record you should examine.
  • 6 questions to ask when you interview the candidate.
  • Interview the candidates internal and external customers.
Effective Leadership

Effective Leadership: Employ, Equip, Empower and Get Out of the Way!

  • 9 points of contrast between the past and the current/future work environment.
  • Two steps managers need to take to meet the challenge of the changing environment.
  • A broader description of the four elements of being an effective leader in the future.
Feedback in Business

Motivate with Feedback--Build Your Business by Building Up Your Employees

  • A definition of feedback appropriate for the business environment,
  • Types of feedback, and
  • Feedback as a motivational tool.
Fight

So You want to Fight! Handling Arguments in the Workplace

  • 14 common reasons constructive discussions turn into destructive arguments, and
  • An example of conflict resolution from the life of Paul.
Biblical Leaders

13 Traits of Remarkable Bible Leaders You Should Have

  • An expanded discussion of each of the 13 Biblical leadership traits and,
  • Three lessons about leaders from the life and experiences of Ezekiel.
Seasons of Life

The Seasons Of Life: Seeking God In Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring

  • A discussion of God's seasons in our life and a broader discussion of each season.
Leadership

Build Performance by Learning How to Use Leadership Styles Effectively

  • A broader description of each of the four styles.
  • A broader description of each of the four styles.
  • When it is appropriate to use each style.
  • Leadership style versus group size.
  • The importance of the servant’s heart demonstrated in all four styles.
Worry

How to Cast Worry Aside and Live a Tums Free Life

  • Everyday things we worry about.
  • The physical, emotional, and spiritual impacts of worry.
  • The difference between prayer, supplication, thanksgiving, and requests.
  • How what we think about impacts worry.
  • The importance of doing right.
  • What it means to have the peace of God in our lives.
Work Dwarfs

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It's Off to Work We Go!

  • Something to Do. What’s the difference between vocation and occupation?
  • Something to Love. Is it Biblical to love your work?
  • Something to Hope For. How to get the drive and determination to see the race through to the end.
Supervision

What Supervision Skills Do You Need to be Successful?

  • Planning.
  • Staffing.
  • Organizing.
  • Directing.
  • Controlling.
Time Pirates

Time Pirates--Tips to Reclaim the Time in Your Life

  • Get Focused. Develop a personal “business” plan for your life.
  • Develop strategies to accomplish your goals.
  • Develop prioritized task lists—what to do and what not to do.
  • More Practical Tips to win the war against the time pirates.

Situational Ethics and the Art of Dishonesty, Cheating, and Lying

  • Total Integrity Management and Biblical Ethics.
  • Six steps to establishing a Biblical ethic in your life.
Rowboat, Changes

6 Keys to Make the Important Changes in Your Life Stick!

  • 5 practical things to focus on as you begin to make important changes in your life.
  • 3 steps to help clarify your values.
  • A case study.
  • Meeting notes to help employees identify what they want to change.
  • 10 tips to help you determine what and how to get started.
  • Some great quotes to keep you motivated.
  • Six steps to establishing a Biblical ethic in your life.
Integrity walks securely

Is Integrity the Most Important Building Block of Personal Development?

  • 5 benefits of maintaining integrity in the workplace.
  • 8 powerful ideas will help you build integrity in yourself and your organization.
Temple Moneychangers Marketing

The Temple Moneychangers--A Guide to Biblical Marketing

  • 7 elements of marketing.
  • A framework for marketing ethics.
  • 12 principles you can use as marketing guidelines.
Leaders, Executives

Are the Best Executives, Leaders or Managers?

  • 6 traits of an executive who leads by managing.
  • 7 steps you can take to encourage leadership in your organization.
  • 10 Biblical principles to help you develop and maintain positive attitudes in the workplace.
  • 4 origins of attitudes.
  • the affect of attitude on self-image.
  • 6 ways an employee's perceptions inform their attitudes at work.
Critical Roles of Sales Manager

4 Critical Roles of A Sales Manager That Are Important For Every Manager

  • A broader discussion of the four critical roles of a sales manager.
  • 5-skill sets/attributes you need to have to be an effective sales manager.Meeting Notes.
  • A guide to help you conduct a meeting with your staff to establish yourself as the leader and set expectations.
  • Executive Summary of action keys for the sales manager.
  • Cases in real life. A newly appointed sales manager tries to establish himself and build a team.
  • Executive Spotlight. An interview with an executive about God's impact on him and his business.
  • Some great inspirational Bible quotes about courage, tact, wisdom, strength, and determination.
Mistakes Discipline Employee

Disciplining Employees--The 10 Worst Mistakes Bosses Make

  • A broader discussion of the ten mistakes bosses make disciplining their employees.
  • 10 things you can do as a leader to provide Biblically sound discipline.
Roadblocks

Roadblocks--12 Impediments to Achievement

  • A broader discussion of the 12 roadblocks to success.
Winner Running Race

Running the Great Race -- 11 Qualities of a Winner

  • A broader discussion of the 12 roadblocks to success.
Fear Wolf

Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Transforming Fears in Your Life!

  • The first fear.
  • The 4 effects of fear.
  • 7 guidelines for overcoming fear.

The Looking Glass--How Do Your Employees View You as a Leader?

  • 11 factors influencing your image.
  • 11 questions to ask yourself to assess your image.
Success Workplace

12 Ways to Create and Enjoy Success in the Workplace

  • A broader discussion of each of the twelve ways to create success.
Nehemiah Enabler, Organization

8 Steps to Creating Your Barrier Busting Enabled Organization

  • Who Should Coach?
  • Barriers to Learning
  • Coaching versus Enabling
  • Nehemiah the Enabler
  • Getting Started - 8 Steps to Enabling Your Organization
  • Words to Ponder
  • Cases in Real Life
  • Meeting Notes to Create an Enabled Organization
  • Action Keys for the Executive Enabler
Stress - Make Straight Your Paths

5 Biblical Steps to Surviving Killer Stress in Your Life

  • 5 actions steps to overcome stress
  • The top ten sources of job stress
  • Common symptoms of stress
  • 6 Steps you can take to manage stress in your life starting today!
  • Words to Ponder - a collection of quotes and Biblical passages about stress
  • A real-life case study that examines seven important things to know about managing organizational stress
  • Meetings Notes - a guide to help you understand the cause and effect of stress in your organization
  • Stress Busters - an 18-point stress buster plan from Dr. Martin Brenner
Playground

What I Learned on the Playground that Actually Helped Me as a Leader

  • More in-depth content covering the world-view of organizational behavior,
  • Biblical principles of organizational behavior,
  • 7-elements needed to build organizational morale,
  • Some great quotes,
  • A case study, and
  • A key points summary.
Attributes, Light

8 Critical Attributes for Leaders You Didn't Learn About in Business School

  • More in-depth content covering the example we are to set,
  • Some great quotes,
  • 10 virtues of a Godly executive, and
  • A key points summary.
Refreshed, Refreshes

The Pause That Refreshes. Nine Checkpoints For Fulfilling Christianity

  • A broader discussion of the 9 checkpoints for fulfilling Christianity.
Submit, Man Praying, James 4

Lookin' For Esteem in All the Wrong Places!

  • A broader discussion about the struggle between self-esteem and God-esteem,
  • Some great quotes,
  • A real-life case study,
  • A template you can use to complete a personal review, and
  • 9 key points to maintaining a balanced life.
Employee Discipline

Nine Steps to Employee Growth Through Discipline

  • Tons more information about building up your employees through discipline,
  • Some great quotes about discipline,
  • A real-life case study,
  • Some meeting notes to help you run a meeting with your team, and
  • 10 of the most egregious discipline mistakes.
Serve, Service

To Serve or Not to Serve, That is the Question!

  • More information about creating a customer service centric organization,
  • Some great quotes about customer service,
  • Meeting notes to help you run a meeting with your team, and
  • 12 tips to help you increase your customer service scores. 
Performance Review

Are Performance Reviews Critical to Business or Worthless Paper?

  • More information about conducting performance reviews,
  • Some great quotes about performance,
  • Meeting notes to help you run a meeting with your team, and
  • A summary of the key points in conducting performance reviews.
Leadership, Leader

Lessons on Leadership -- Part 2

  • All the scripture verses,
  • Some great quotes about leadership,
  • Meeting notes to help you run a meeting with your team, and
  • A summary of the Leadership Lessons
Leader

Lessons on Leadership -- Part 1

  • All the scripture verses,
  • Some great quotes about leadership,
  • Meeting notes to help you run a meeting with your team, and
  • A summary of the Leadership Lessons
Living, Productively

9 Keys to Living Productively

  • More depth for each of the nine keys and examine a total of 50 characteristics that support these nine keys.
  • Some great quotes in the Words to Ponder section and
  • Meeting notes to help you work through your personal action plan for living productively based on God’s wisdom and life principles.
Selling, Sells

21 Habits of Incredibly Successful Salespeople

  • A discussion of each of the 21 Habits of Incredible Successful Salespeople.
  • Meeting notes to help you focus your entire organization on the importance of selling, and the use of selling skills to enhance job productivity.
  • A collection of inspiring quotes and Scripture passages.
Power, Leader, Character

How to Keep Your Power as Leader from Destroying Your Character

  • Is Power Good or Bad?
  • The Importance of Character.
  • Several character profiles of men who handled their power poorly.
  • Two cases studies based on my own experience.
  • Meeting notes to help you take a personal inventory of your own use of power. 
  • Some questions you can ask of your employees to better understand how power is handled in your organization
Business Meeting, Productive

4 Keys to Making Your Next Meeting Your Most Productive Meeting Ever!

  • 4 action steps to make your meetings productive.
  • Six reasons meetings are not only here to stay, but more important than ever.
  • Nine primary purposes of meetings.
  • Why it is important to think of meetings as an asset.
  • A case study based on a meeting I attended.
  • Meeting Notes that provide an outline of how you can train your own team on meeting productivity.
  • And finally, a fun look at 15 common meeting problem people and how to recognize them in your next meeting!

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