Leadership and Encouragement Part 3

Leadership and Encouragement Part 3Self Encouragement Principles Recently, I purchased a book simply because of a quote on the front cover: If you do not learn how to encourage yourself, you cannot fulfill your destiny. That quote is a valid principle of life and leadership. Probably the clearest example of this principle is found inContinueContinue reading “Leadership and Encouragement Part 3”

Leadership and Encouragement—Part 2

BARNABAS: A BIBLICAL MODEL OF AN ENCOURAGER Barnabas is perhaps the most-well known encourager in the New Testament. In fact, he embodied encouragement so much that the apostles changed his name from Joseph to Barnabas, which means “son of encouragement.” There are five biblical examples in which Barnabas clearly demonstrated the characteristics of an encourager.ContinueContinue reading “Leadership and Encouragement—Part 2”

Leaders and Encouragement Part 1

LEADERS ARE ENCOURAGERS! In their book, The Leadership Challenge, James Kouzes and Barry Posner present a model—The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership. The last practice, “Encouraging the Heart,” is a topic so important that the authors wrote an entire book about it—Encouraging the Heart: A Leader’s Guide to Rewarding and Recognizing Others. The “Seven Essentials toContinueContinue reading “Leaders and Encouragement Part 1”