LeaderTip #8: How to Communicate Your Vision
Every leader must have a target they want to hit. Often, this target is simply referred to as a “vision.”
Solving Our Cheating Problem in Schools (Part Four)
Today, I will offer five big action steps I believe we can take to turn the tide in the cheating problem in schools.
Solving the Cheating Problem in Schools (Part Three)
This week, I’m blogging about cheating. Cheating among students, faculty and administrators in our schools and universities across America.
Solving Our Cheating Problem in Schools (Part Two)
Let me offer three vital ingredients we must build into our kids to rekindle their conscience.
Solving Our Cheating Problem in Schools (Part One)
You’ve probably read—cheating in both high schools and universities has reached an epidemic level.
LeaderTip #7: How to Capture a Vision
As far as I’m concerned, leadership cannot be separated from vision.
Leadership Reflections After a Tornado
Helping Kids Respond to the Oklahoma Tragedy
Over-Parenting Can Do More Harm Than Not Enough
What we’ve failed to see for two decades is that over-parenting—not under-parenting—can do even more harm.
Six Reasons Mentors Tell “Failure” Stories: Guest Post by Regi Campbell
Why are mentees drawn to failure stories over victory laps? It seems young people listen more to the stories of my failures than those of my successes.
The Pot and the Kettle
What is it that makes us so prone to fail at the very thing we try to help others avoid or overcome? Have you noticed this?
LeaderTip #6: How to Overcome Ineffective Meetings
Leadership is a tender balance between relationships and results. So what undermines effective meetings?
Seven Lessons Coaches Can Learn from Frosty Westering
Frosty Westering really, really lived—and chose to invest his life into young men. He built men out of boys during their years in college.
A Story on Empowering Students to Do What They Do Best
A few years ago we, at FFA, made a realization: we were depriving our state officers the opportunity to use their strengths to best serve our members.
Four Secrets to Leading Kids For Teachers and Parents
In today’s blog, I want to furnish some practical ideas on leading young people that any caring adult can use.
Five Things I Would Say to a Newly Graduated College Student
This month, millions of students will become graduates. I want to share a conversation I had with a newly graduated 23-year old young adult at Starbucks.
LeaderTip #5: How to Read a Book
Almost everywhere we go, people ask the question: how do you read so many books? Where do you find the time? And…just how do you read a book?
The Secret to Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids
Yesterday, I shared with the Huffington Post community the following thoughts that I wanted to share with you as well
Podcast #11: An Interview with Jason Russell
Today's post is the latest episode of our Growing Leaders podcast. In the previous episode, Jeremy Affeldt shared the greatest secret to developing resilience in a young person and challenged us to apply that principle as well. In today's podcast, I interview Jason Russell. Jason is the co-founder of Invisible Children, and the Director of Kony 2012, which produced a campaign and video that
Five Reasons Why Online Learning is the Future of Education
Did you hear? News just broke that our U.S. Education Department gave it’s blessing to online programs that award college credit—based not on how much time a students spends in a classroom but how much they know and can do. It’s a new day.
One Gap That’s Bigger Than the Generation Gap
Young job seekers can’t seem to bridge the chasm between the skills they possess and the needs of U.S. employers. Social scientists call it: the skills gap. Employers call it: trouble.
LeaderTip #4: How to Establish Your Priorities
We must learn the difference between what is necessary and what is expendable. A leader is a broker of talent, time, resources, people, energy and money.
Brain Building Through Craft Time
Today’s blog is a guest post by Keri Zingle. Keri is a mother of two and the founder of Craft Caravan, which sends monthly craft supplies to kids in the mail. She’s found ways to engage younger students in an EPIC fashion.
Stuff I Wish Kids Knew Today
Recently I was reminded that many of the messages the media in our culture is sending us…and even more so, sending our young people