An interesting post came through my RSS Reader today from Church Relevance about learning from our mistakes as a leader. I like point number 2: Be a custom leader. Basically, not everyone relates the same way and we can’t expect to deal with all of our leaders or co-workers the same way. I’ve often thought that it would be great to have something like the five love languages for the work environment.
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I’m glad you liked the post Jason. Books like Chapman’s Five Love Languages helped encourage me as a leader to better understand my volunteers.
Two other books I would recommend are:
http://www.amazon.com/Speaking-Love-Fred-Kendall/dp/0785281541/ref=sr_1_1/103-1003644-8541427?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194915723&sr=1-1
and
http://www.amazon.com/StrengthsFinder-2-0-Upgraded-Discover-Strengths/dp/159562015X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-1003644-8541427?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1194915767&sr=1-1
Thanks for the suggestions!
(In other news, I had my first run-in with Askimet mis-identifying a comment as spam. But it got 3 others right, so that’s good I guess.)