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Matt Rusten
Why Joy is Vital for Your Leadership and Company

Is joy an underrated asset in your leadership? In our latest article, Matt Rusten explores why joy, much like humor, plays a vital role in building a thriving company culture. From increasing team engagement to fostering resilience, joy can transform workplace dynamics and inspire purpose-driven work. Discover three key ways to cultivate joy in your organization and why it’s essential for leaders who seek both results and fulfillment.

Why Joy is Vital for Your Leadership and Company
Business, Faith, Faith at Work
Convene
Do Not Worry

‘Do not worry.’ We’ve read Matthew 6:25-34 in the Sermon on the Mount, but what does that look like on a day-to-day, minute-by-minute basis? God knows our every worry, fear, and concern – and He can handle it. Many thanks to Darrell Passwater, Convene Forum Team leader, for his encouragement to think about how our lives might be different by truly living out this scriptural principle.

Do Not Worry
Greg Leith
Who Will Lead Your Firm the Day After the ...

Got a quick minute to chat? I’ve been wanting to share something with you as you lead in the midst of the election cycle in the USA or when your political election takes place in your country. When the dust settles on the election and the new country leader is declared, one thing will still be as true as it is right now. You’ll still be the one leading your firm the day after the election. Your team members will still come to work the day after the winner is declared. They’ll still be looking to you for leadership, for a paycheck, for a sense of community at their workplace.

What do they want most that only you can deliver? It’s meaning. That meaning they’re looking for begins with you and your leadership. To be sure, what Washington DC does actually can impact your business significantly, however, the president of the United States or the leader of any country does not lead your firm. You do. It’s an enterprise entrusted to you to lead as a steward. It’s a place where people look to you for answers, where people want to be part of a team that cares about them and where people want to be valued, appreciated, and loved. The next president of the country will not show up this week at your office to encourage your team, fix a broken piece of equipment, hire the next team member, sell a big account, or cast a bold vision about how your team will reach your goals and impact the culture.

Who Will Lead Your Firm the Day After the Election?
Chip Neidigh
A Safe Place To Fall
A Safe Place To Fall
Dave Ulrich
3 Principles of Hope That Enable Transitions

As we find ourselves mid-October and a blink away from a new calendar year, it is an opportunity to prepare for how we view transitions. Transitions allow for reflection and renewal, for letting go and beginning anew, and for learning from the past and creating the future. Instead of laying out trends for the next year, I would like to comment on a fundamental enabler of any transition: hope. Leaders who want to improve, CEO’s who work toward excellence, HR professionals who aspire to deliver more value, and employees who seek well-being all achieve their transitions by realizing hope.

Hope integrates many of the positive traits that shape transitions for others and matter to me personally: learning, patience, service, faith, humility, optimism, gratitude, and so forth. I send hundreds of formal and informal e-mails every month to invite people to programs, to thank people for attending programs, to check in on those I mentor, and to stay connected to those I care about. I begin almost every one of these notes with “Hope you are well.” Hope is one of my personal desires, tag lines, and biases and an enabler of any transition.

If I could implant one trait in my family, friends, and colleagues who are undergoing continual transition, it would be hope. 

3 Principles of Hope That Enable Transitions

spiritual life

You're An Answer To Prayer

I suppose I’ve heard that before - and I never thought much about it. Maybe because I always remembered it being said after I helped someone though something pretty tough.  But me?  An answer to prayer? My 8 year old daughter asked me one night, "Have you called our neighbor to see how she is?”  Why she thought to ask that, I don’t know. We hadn’t particularly talked about them in some time. But I decided to pick up the phone.

“Hello….um, this is Michael from next door. We just thought we’d call and see how you are.  Can we bring you anything?  Go get something for you?”

“You have no idea…you’re an answer to prayer.”

“Why do you say that?” I asked.

I then heard a story of a fall, broken bones, a run to the hospital, a husband that had taken a turn for the worse…

“I was just saying to dad that we don’t have anyone to call to help us. And not but two minutes ago, I just prayed that God would help us…and then the phone rang.”  Tears welled up in me.  Now I knew where my daughter’s question came from.

God really does use us to answer prayer.  It’s Him, and His story, and we get to be a part of it.

As we sit in unique roles, leading our companies, our families, and others around us, God will use us to answer prayers, if we are open to the His voice.  It will be at work, at home, at the gas station.  Sometimes, we’ll know we part of the story, and other times, we may never know.

But, yes, we really can be an answer to prayer.

With Boldness & Without Hindrance

The Acts of the Apostles is the fifth book of the New Testament and tells of the founding of the Christian church and the spread of its message to the Roman empire. Acts begins with Jesus’s charge to the Twelve Apostles to spread the Gospel throughout the world. From that point forward, quite simply, the book of Acts tells the story of men and women ON MISSION.

Acts ends with the simple statement about Paul … He proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ—with all boldness and without hindrance. (Acts 28:31)

With all boldness and without hindrance … those words popped for me. That is the instruction and example set for how we are to act on our mission, on our plans and intentions.

The month of January is finished and we should be through the important work of visioning, planning, goal setting, etc. Now the focus is on the hard work of execution, follow-through, implementation, accomplishment. Let’s approach that work with all boldness and without hindrance and see what magic happens.