Tuesday at 2:00pm with Russ

It's Tuesday at 2:00pm! (PST Time: I live and work from Southern California)

Greetings to you!

Each week I send out a short leadership blog that's called "Tuesday at 2:00pm". The purpose of this is simply to provide a brief thought on leadership that you can read and think about in just a few minutes. I send it out every week at 2:00pm (PST) and encourage you to make an appointment with yourself to pause and think about the thing I'm writing about.

Russ...

LEADERSHIP QUOTE:

"A Community is a group of people who agree to grow together." Simon Sinek

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A LITTLE BIT DEEPER:

This month I want to explore some quotes and ideas around the theme of COMMUNITY. This is a topic I've been thinking a lot about lately, and as I explored some thoughts on it I drove me deeper. To see past themes and blog posts, visit my website HERE.

I'm going to finish the series on Community today, and Sinek's quote just sums it up so well.

I love that he defines Community as a group of people who AGREE to grow together. That word is really important.

We all belong to different Communities, but it's when we AGREE to being a part, that we go to a different level...

  • Agreeing means that we want to be there, want to be a part

  • Agreeing means that we'll make an effort and contribute in some way

  • Agreeing means that we're looking for something deeper

  • Agreeing means that we're willing to work at it

  • Agreeing means that we're willing to make ourselves vulnerable

  • Agreeing means that we are IN

I believe that many of us are involved in Community, but we haven't AGREED to bring all that we can to facilitate growth and life to others.

I just spent 4 days with a Community of Leaders at the Leader Mundial Global Summit.

This year, 67 Leaders and Coaches, from 15 different countries and over 40 different organizations AGREED to come together to grow together.

What happened was difficult to measure:

  • We grew as we worshipped together & prayed for one another

  • We grew as we learned from each other and shared our stories

  • We grew as we laughed and cried together

  • We grew as we encouraged and celebrated each other

  • We grew as we listened to each other

  • We grew as we played together and just spent time together

It was a time of DEEP COMMUNITY that resulted in SERIOUS GROWTH!

What Community have you AGREED to engage in, resulting in growth?

DEEPER STILL:

This month I want to highlight 5 different values of a healthy Community, and challenge you to think about how that value is being lived out in your life, through your life, and into your Community!

The 5 we'll explore are:

1) A Trusting Community

2) An Honest Community

3) A Listening Community

4) An Encouraging Community

5) A Celebrating Community

This week let's look at AN ENCOURAGING COMMUNITY and A CELEBRATING COMMUNITY to complete the 5.

These things often go together, and I simply want to remind you to be INTENTIONAL.

Often we know that encouragement & celebration come into Community, but I want to tell you that you must be intentional to make it happen.

  • Pay attention to what's going on. Always be looking and listening for things to celebrate and people to encourage.

  • Realize that you can celebrate big things and small things.

  • Understand the power of "simple" encouragement: a note, a word, a public praise... these are powerful and will be remembered.

  • Stop what you're doing to encourage and celebrate.. don't add it to something that is already happening. Set the moment apart.

  • Model this for your Community, and eventually you'll see them begin to respond this way naturally

Think of a moment that you were encouraged or celebrated in your life? How did it make you feel? Are you making others feel that way too?

 

Things I'm Reading, Listening To and Watching This Week:

Source: www.leadermundial.org