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You Care? You Serve!

Posted in Encouragement, Faith and Work, Friendship, Hope, Influence, marketplace ministry, Relationships, Servant Leadership, Serve on February 7, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rob Hey continues his outstanding and practical teaching on what Serving looks like at work.  Print this and and put it where you will see it everyday when you get to the office! This week at work, I took a close look at what I actually accomplished in serving others. My personal goal has always [...]

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Showing Up to Serve

Posted in Adversity, Encouragement, Faith and Work, Friendship, Serve on February 1, 2012 | 1 Comment »

Rob Hey continues to share his powerful insights regarding how we can more effectively serve those we work with.  This is a powerful story! A few weeks ago, one of my fellow co-workers experienced some unexpected major health issues and ended up needing open heart surgery.  It was a shock to everyone at the office [...]

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Who Cares?

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Pride, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, Work, tagged , , , , on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

I love today’s blog post from Seth Godin! Especially this point…”Caring, it turns out, is a competitive advantage, and one that takes effort, not money.” One of our Core Values at WorkMatters is Excellence. It is also one of the Seven Pillars of Faith at Work. Excellence is so often found in the details. Enjoy Seth’s [...]

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Lessons Learned from the Tornado

Posted in Adversity, Faith and Work, Leadership, Planning, Plans, Serve, Team on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rob Hey continues to share his thoughts  this month on how we can serve more effectively at work. It is amazing to see people around the office that will step up and serve when the time calls for it.  We all have talents and gifts that can be used in powerful ways if we will [...]

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The Flat Tire

Posted in Faith and Work on January 17, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

Rob Hey who spoke at our January Eight to Five on the Pillar of SERVE will continue to share his thoughts with us this month regarding how to serve more effectively in the workplace.   A few weeks ago, my brother was driving back from the airport, when he had a blowout on his new [...]

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Generous

Posted in Faith and Work, Generous, Giving, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work, tagged , , , , on January 10, 2012 | 1 Comment »

gen~er~ous: adjective 1. liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish. Why are people generous? What makes someone want to give? Is it how they were raised? Or is it in their DNA? Is it because they have excess riches? Or is it a product of their heart? I don’t pretend to know the answers to these questions, but I have [...]

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The Time for Influence

Posted in Encouragement, Faith and Work, Influence, Time on December 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

During our discussions on Influence we covered intentionally aligning the sources of what influences us with how we want to influence others.  But, we also need to talk about the time for influence. Jesus said “It’s urgent that you listen carefully to this: Anyone here who believes what I am saying right now and aligns himself with the Father, who has in [...]

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The Source of Influence

Posted in Faith and Work, God, Influence, Trust, Wisdom on December 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Influence is the pillar we are focused on this month.  Spencer Frazier, SVP for Sales at J.B. Hunt brought a powerful message to our Eight to Five gathering last Friday.  He continues his teaching in our blog for the month of December. Workmatters first pillar of faith at work is Relationship…abiding with God at work. [...]

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Living Out Colossians 3:23

Posted in Excellence, Faith and Work, Seven Pillars of Faith and Work on November 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

The Apostle Paul can be intimidating. He writes: “Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.”  I don’t know about you, but thinking that the Lord God Almighty supervises my work intimidates me considerably.  It makes me think that everything I do at work must [...]

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Choices

Posted in Choices, Excellence, Faith and Work on November 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Excellence is about choosing how we do things. I’ve been suggesting that it’s about doing the right things with excellence in order to BE excellent. But let’s not forget that it all comes down to our choices. I saw this great quote on my home page the other day: “You don’t get to choose how [...]

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