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The StrongTeams.com Podcast

September 20, 2022
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About the Podcast The StrongTeams.com Podcast is produced by Ministry Insights International. Your host is Rodney Cox, president of Ministry Insights, and author of the book Leading From Your Strengths®. Rodney and his guests discuss best practices in building strong teams—teams built on empathy, understanding, and trust, where every team member feels valued and contributes…

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The Quiet Phenomenon In the Workplace

September 10, 2022
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If you’ve perused social media or news websites lately you’ve likely run across many new buzzwords used to describe the changing workplace environment. Lately, two labels are getting more discussion than all others combined—Quiet Quitting and Quiet Firing. Although the media represents these concepts as new, the practices they describe have been a pattern in…

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3 Reasons Not to Follow Elon Musk

August 29, 2022
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In 1988, to avoid compulsory military service, 17-year-old Elon Musk left his home country of South Africa to live with relatives in Canada. Soon after, he was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania where he eventually graduated with degrees in business and physics.  Next, Musk pursued a Ph.D. in energy physics at Stanford but dropped…

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3 Ways Twitter is Hurting Leaders

July 20, 2022
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According to Twitter’s Q1 2022 report, the social media platform now has 229 million daily active users. This is a 15.9 percent year-over-year increase and 6.7 percent more than the previous quarter. Numbers like this solidify Twitter’s ranking as one of the top five social media sites in America. After news and entertainment content, leadership…

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Brandon Schaefer and Five Capitals launch Prioritized Life Assessment

Leadership: New Tool Avoids the Guesswork for Leaders in Setting Priorities

February 8, 2019
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Brandon Schaefer enjoyed success during his working years in the corporate world, yet he struggled to understand how to apply biblical principles to his professional priorities. “As leaders and individuals, we know our weaknesses,” he says. “But we sabotage ourselves – either we are way too hard on ourselves or not hard enough.” Rather than…

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Are You Hearing from God? Take a Day of Solitude.

December 11, 2018
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By Don Ankenbrandt* As a new believer, I was eager to grow and learn as much as I could. During that time, I attended a weekend retreat led by Dan DeHaan, who challenged me to spend one day a month in solitude with the Lord to learn to hear His voice. Soon after, I marched…

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