What is your best hour of the day? When are you most productive? Or perhaps, when are you setting yourself up to be the most productive?
Tag Archive - effectiveness
The Pruning & Purging Continues
A Lesson in Communication
I just returned from a national staff conference for the department of Local Church Ministries that I work in at Word of Life Canada, a national non-profit that focuses on reaching the youth of Canada with the message of Jesus Christ. It was a powerful conference from all angles with many elements, including refreshment, team recruitment, risk management policies and everything in between. (I assure you… not everything started with ‘R’ though.)
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The theme for our conference was “Communication.” We were encouraged throughout the course of our four days in several areas related to communication but the one element that resonated the most within me was this: what I do should not communicate more loudly than who I am. What does this mean?
Interruption or Opportunity?
Much of what I do in my day-to-day is related to administration, oversight, coordination; in a word: tasks. Ultimately, I realize that the end result of my daily, weekly and monthly tasks affects people but I can tend to get very focused on the tasks and often times in my efforts to be efficient with things, I miss chances to be effective with people.
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I’ve been reminded lately however, that tasks at the cost of relationships is a detriment to what I do.
