The PF Women Team at our Annual Team Retreat ~ 2018 Today on Seth Godin's blog, he said: It's tempting to decide to make a profit first, then invest in training, people, facilities, promotion, customer service and most of all, doing important work. In general, though, it goes the other way. Yes, it does. If you are waiting to make a profit before you do these things, in my experience you're not going to make a profit. So many organizations, ministries and churches are struggling with financial issues. I know your pain. As anyone who follows our story knows, our ministry was in a ton of debt four years ago when I came on as director. Since that time, we've gotten out of debt and turned a profit every year. God has done amazing things through out team, for which we give Him the glory! I find that what Seth is saying here is absolutely true, with one disclaimer. For Christian leaders, spiritual disciplines must always be first. Before we started i...
Yesterday I was having a talk with one of our assistant regional managers, Angela, and marveling at how God personally selects my job seekers. Mine could go to ANY coach at NextJob , but in God's divine plan, they are assigned to ME! We are a perfect match! How do I know it's a divine connection and not just something random? Well, in many different ways and one of the calls I had recently typifies this. Angela totally agreed with me and said it's happened to her many times. Job seekers don't always talk to you about career advice. They also talk to you about everything from what they are making for dinner to what made them mad about that day, what they are looking forward to, or what made them laugh that morning when they woke up. They ask my advice on what to buy their kids for Christmas or how to get gum out of the carpet. NextJob trains us to meet them where they're at, and I really try my best to do that. So when they say, "did yo...