I have a dirt driveway. Well, part of it is dirt, and part is caliche. When it rains, the dirt turns to mud (obviously), and I avoid driving through the mud. Sounds simple right? I avoid the mud for two reasons: I hate getting my suburban muddy and I hate …
wes Do What Needs to Be Done
As I mentioned last week, I had the opportunity to direct a leadership camp. The general structure of that leadership camp looks like this: a combination of leadership instruction, relationship investing, and real life leadership experience. The real life leadership experience comes in the form of leading rec for the …
Motivation and Leadership
Let’s talk about Student Leadership today. More specifically, let’s talk about developing Students with leadership potential. Over the past 5 years I have had a student leadership team of some sort. The intensity has increased each year as I try to find the right balance between commitment and over commitment. …
The Tension of the 3rd Question
Last week I went to camp. One of my roles at camp was to teach leadership to a group of 12 students. What I did not anticipate, however, was the leadership challenge I was going to face in the process. The kids were great. They were willing to step up …
Communicating Expectations
You know, for someone who has written 150+ blog posts about leadership, you might think I would learn some of my own stuff along the way. Last week we took a trip, and one of the biggest tensions on the trip was the realization that I had not clearly communicated …