This week’s NIV Leadership Bible devotions focused on the leadership skill of Encouragement. In my last post, I mentioned how much I benefitted from my Dad’s encouragement. A few years back, as I was preparing for a promotion at work, I recognized that I needed to be more of an encourager at work, so I did what I generally do in that circumstance…I found a book that would help me out. At that time, I read John Maxwell’s Encouragement Changes Everything: Bless & Be Blessed.
Maxwell’s premise is that people who add value to others almost always do so intentionally. He says that because adding value to others requires a person to give of himself, and that rarely occurs by accident.
Learn more from Maxwell’s perspective and some of the leaders he points to as example Encouragers.
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