Wally Bock | Keeping the Best

Wally Bock | Keeping the Best

This is the first in a two part special series for Father’s Day. Fathers are leaders who influence the lives of their children. You may know Wally Bock from his Three Star Leadership Blog. In this series, I highlight some of his insights about fatherhood and...
Pushing Through: Learning to Read

Pushing Through: Learning to Read

My daughter Natalie is learning to read. It’s not easy yet. She loves being read to: we stack up a pile of our favorites and snuggle on the couch with her two sisters or find a quiet corner of the library. There are some classics that even my almost three year...
Creative Redundancy and Team Alignment

Creative Redundancy and Team Alignment

During recent conversation, I shared a phrase that my husband Eric and I have used a lot in our work with churches. Our idea of Creative Redundancy is that people need to hear the same information again and again — in different ways — before they truly understand it...
When You Think You Know It All, You Don’t

When You Think You Know It All, You Don’t

In the middle of my junior year of high school, my family moved from West Virginia to Ohio. Due to more stringent driver’s education requirements in Ohio, had a choice: enroll in driving school or forfeit my license. Unwilling to part with my new-found freedom,...