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.

“If we start thinking about investments of time, rather than expenditures, maybe we’ll start focusing on allocating time toward the things that are more closely linked to our longer-term well-being,” Prof. Hershfield says.

God has been busy transforming the hearts, minds, and actions of many people this year! The truth of God's word has never been more relevant and accessible to help people with the needs they face in life and work.

When work is difficult because of people or circumstances, it can quickly become discouraging and can seem like there is no benefit to doing things The Way Jesus prescribes and modeled. Listen and Howard and Carter discuss how the incarnation encourages us in the midst of doubt.

In the incarnation Jesus drew near to make us one with God, empower our roles, and perfectly demonstrate The Way to live and work.