Dan Rockwell provides five simple rules that help a listener disengage from their own head and agenda in order to hear and understand what others are saying with respect. I’m putting it here because its important to think and remember these. 5 simple rules for the day: #1. Don’t interrupt. Listening is hard work for …
A very, very helpful post on Leadership Freak by Dan Rockwell. Helping should be an innate aspect of life as a follower of Jesus. Rockwell observes that “The goal of helping is enabling, not more helping.” We should be helpers, and not ignore those in need, particularly those we have particular responsibility for. But before …
Dan Rockwell extrapolates on the observation that he knows exactly the right way to make a taco to illustrate the distinction between procedures based on preference and those that need to be regulated in a particular way. Making a leader’s preferences into rigid regulations will strangle the organic life of a group. Read Dan Rockwell’s …
Reading this post by Dan Rockwell provided a moment of clarity on the difference between feedback and instruction. Good feedback energises performance, it doesn’t discourage effort. In a recent workshop, I invited a participant to knock a small box off a stool using a cookie. She stood with her back to the stool and tossed …
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