Social Media Leadership

One question today.

How are you using social media to lead?

Don't think it's important? Watch the short video below.





Again. How are you using social media to lead?

5 Leadership Principles

I was led to an article last week by Benjamin Lichtenwalner on the website CIO.com. The title said "5 Examples of Leadership Success in Troubled Times." As I began reading the article, I began to see that not only were these examples of leadership but they were also examples of leadership principles. Through each example I began to see a defining principle come into focus.

You can read the post here and see if you came to the same conclusions I did.

I saw these 5 principles for leadership and began to figure out how I could implement them in my role at Teen Challenge of the Midlands. I would encourage you to do the same in your leadership positions. Here's how it translates for me.

Respect / Listen / Focus / Transparency / Value

Respect
1. I believe that laying the groundwork for success at Teen Challenge begins with respecting everyone and realizing that some of the guys are just in different stops on their journey. Let people know upfront that respect is something given automatically. Everyone will respect each other and have consequences in place if that doesn’t happen.

Listen
2. It looks like the biggest principle here begins with the leader and that is to listen. I like having the policy of listening first, thinking, and then responding. Having a policy of “Listen First” I think is extremely important especially when dealing with issues around Teen Challenge, whether organizational or student related.

Focus
3. Focus is always important in the life of a leader. With Teen Challenge, the organization, it’s important to focus on the long-term and realize that what’s going on short-term isn’t how the organization is going to end up. With Teen Challenge student related issues, it’s important to realize that just because a student messes up doesn’t mean he can’t make it or overcome whatever the issue is.

Transparency
4. Transparency is one of the most overlooked areas of leadership. In order to get people to jump on board with your vision, you have to let them see everything and decide for themselves if they are going to give some or all of their life to it. This is being real with people. Authentic.

Value
5. You have to see the value in everyone. Many times I can remember seeing someone and not putting a lot of value in their use to the organization I was involved with only to find out they surpassed my expectations of value to the company. Everyone has value.

Let me know what you think!

Adam
10thStreetCoffee Director

This post was originally published on the LeadersHeart Network. Find out more about LeadersHeart here.

10thStreetCoffee Events

I wanted to make you aware that that we now have 12 events on the calendar for the rest of this year. I'm sure there are many more that are out there that I don't know about. If you have an event you want on the calendar for 10thStreetCoffee, you can add it on from the events tab or send it to events@10thStreetCoffee.com and we can get it added on for you. Give us all the info or send us a link to the website.

It's a great event right? You might as well get as much exposure to it as possible. Find all 10thStreetCoffee events at http://www.10thstreetcoffee.com/events

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God's Purpose...for my life?

I just read a good post by Steven Furtick from Elevation Church in North Carolina about purpose. What's your purpose in life? Rick Warren did a fantastic job a few years ago helping people discover their purpose and why God has someone on this floating rock.

Steven's take is that we don't have a choice of what God's purpose is for our life and makes good points to back it up. Here's the link.

What do you think?

Until next time...

Motivate

There are many things that can motivate someone to do something. I think what makes the someone do the something is the intriguing part. Why does one man achieve great heights of his success ladder while another man wallows in his pit of despair? I think many things can temporarily motivate us. Money, love, self-interest, people, feelings are all things that can motivate someone.

Napoleon said, "There are two levers to set a man in motion, fear and self-interest." Obviously he had a way of motivating men into action. My disagreement with Napoleon comes because I think there are more than two things that has and will motivate someone. My question today is what motivates you? More importantly, what should be motivating you that isn't?

Do you have a sense that what you're doing matters to God and to others? We will only find satisfaction and deeper motivation in what we're doing when we feel that we are giving our lives to a cause that counts.

Until next time...

Free Invites

Seth Godin is giving away free invites to his Triiibe network to readers of his blog. This is a great idea. Seth Godin has a pretty good feel for things. He already has an amazing readership on his blog, now with his exclusive network all he has to do is invite...and be picky at who he accepts. I tried to get in. No word yet on how it's going, but it takes a few days.

It gets me thinking though. When you're creating a network for leaders, what's important? Does the design of the website need to be good? Does the content really play the biggest role? What about being able to build solid relationships with other leaders? Do leaders like giveaways and "special network only" discounts?

What about you? What do you think is the most important part of the networks you've joined? Why did you join in the first place?

Until next time...

Accountability

This is a leadership blog complementing 10thStreetCoffee so I feel it's important to start with leadership ideas from the beginning. As I was looking through the internet I ran across a great blog by Craig Groeschel dealing with accountability. I think Craig's got IT.

What do you think?

http://swerve.lifechurch.tv/2009/03/11/avoid-failing-fatally/

Until next time, Have a great day!

Adam, Director
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