All leadership involves helping others change, but change is difficult and is often resistance. Watch as Howard explains why this is and how to overcome obstacles to change.

Effective leaders who are influential in the lives of others have owned the wisdom, knowledge, and insight of their own life change. Failure to be changed before changing others often feels self-righteous. Embracing change before changing others often feels humble. The first is met with cynicism, the latter with receptivity. 

Changing our city is difficult. In this article, Rufus Smith - senior pastor of Hope Church - describes 7 different ways we can pray for change in our city in light of Tyre Nichols tragic death.

People change, and it is our job to help them. However, some of the ways that we help people change are not as helpful as we think. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how to help people change with grace and truth.

We know that in our hyper-stimulated world, people struggle to focus. The authors’ recent survey of 1,600 employees and managers revealed findings that should be particularly alarming for people leaders: 60.6% of employees admit that they rarely to never do even an hour or two of deep, focused work each day without distraction. As people leaders, what can you do to encourage your team to limit distractions and find focus?

If you’ve been led well, you’ve benefited from someone who believes deeply in change. Leaders take people from where they are to where they need to go. Growth is change. Development is change. Change is constant. Our job as leaders is to go and do what has been done for us by helping others change.

All leaders need to make changes to better serve others. The effective leader is able to healthily evaluate their life and leadership effectiveness by considering what is working and what is not working to help others flourish in their life and work.

When we put our gifts to the needs of the world, we grow faster personally, professionally, and spiritually. Listen as Howard and Carter discuss how giving away what you have - rather than accumulating it for yourself - creates professional growth, personal satisfaction, and spiritual joy. 

We were made to be happy — completely satisfied. Yet, most of us often choose things that drain our happiness and lower our satisfaction. Harvard and Yale now teach courses on happiness, and both institutions agree with God that circumstances don’t make you happier, relationships do.