Tag: Goals

Successful Leaders

August 20, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Leaders do not succeed alone. Although the author is unknown, perhaps one of the most significant thoughts on successful leaders claims, “Successful leadership is your ability to direct and challenge the very best that is in those whom you lead.”

Since leadership depends on followers, it only makes sense to understand the need to draw out the best in others.

Adjustments may be required for leaders to achieve this goal. However, the ability to do so makes the difference between success and failure.

The Right Plan

August 19, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Planning is vital to achieving goals. The challenge before leaders is developing the right plan.

A few questions that must be answered include:

What goal are we trying to reach?
Why is this goal important to the overall program, or is it?
Who will carry out the plan?
Are adequate resources available for each step? If not, can they be obtained?
When will we evaluate the progress?
How can we achieve maximum involvement?
Once the goal is reached, where do we go from that point?

Answering these questions provides the proper foundation for the right plans.

Try Again

August 14, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

We’ve all heard, “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.”

The idea is to persevere, never give up.

Regardless of the goal, or task to reach the goal, facing difficulty or defeat can dishearten anyone from running the race with endurance.

If the goal is worth the effort, then we need to persevere.

If we have the needed resources to succeed, then try again.

If there is an opportunity, then keep working at it.

When we think we have reached the end of the line, perhaps giving it one more try will change it all.

Who Motivates You?

July 31, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Consider three questions:

What motivates us to lead? Leaders experience discouragement and discontentment. When this happens, a fire-lighter is needed, someone or something to motivate us.

How can we motivate followers? Leaders need a vision built on possibility thinking. Morale builds when impossibilities fade.

What is needed to keep followers motivated? Establish short-term goals that motivate followers to focus on achieving long-term goals.

Leaders need to develop plans that keep the fires lit. We must know how to keep ourselves and others motivated, both now and for the future.

Leading Into The Future

July 7, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Moving beyond the “here and now” presents its challenges. Visionary leadership is a rare commodity. Hanz Finzel said, “The higher one is in leadership, the more their work is about the future.”

Our work is about preparing others to move into the future and reach the goal(s) before them.

This requires us to consider a few questions.

Do we know where we are going?
What are our plans to reach the destination?
Are resources available to help us?
Have we assessed the abilities of everyone involved?

Leaders need an awareness of the present, but point towards a greater future.

Goals

May 21, 2025 bobturner saltJournal 0 Comments

We need short and long term goals.

Initiating enthusiasm with the big picture in view can be easy. Visualizing the overall accomplishment the first few weeks and months is exciting.

The problem is maintaining enthusiasm and motivation along the way.

We get discouraged. We struggle. We tend to lose sight.

When we achieve success in smaller tasks, it is easier to stay excited about being involved in reaching the long term goals.

The Beginning

April 14, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Is the beginning better than the end?

The reputation of a successful leader is often measured by goals achieved. However, a leader has an important task before achieving success.

What must be done to create buy-in? How can excitement be created for the goal? Will people work the plan?

The answers unfold in the beginning. To earn great victories, there needs to be a great beginning.

Believe in the plan.
Paint the picture and set it before others.
Examine every possible detail.
Pursue the course with enthusiasm.

Is the beginning better than the end? If we start correctly, yes!

The Language of Jesus

February 11, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Languages are not a strong suite for most of us. Imagine the difficulty of listening to the multiplicity of languages around the world.

However, the key to communicating effectively is understanding.

The ability to communicate so others understand is vital to our leadership.

Goals must be communicated so everyone understands.

Plans must also be communicated effectively.

Roles and responsibilities must be understood.

Above all, leading others to Jesus demands communicating the message of the cross in ways others understand.

Questions

January 7, 2025 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Are your goals self-serving, or do you strive for what is best eternally?

Do your decisions provide an advantage to your career and future, or better equip someone else?

Are you driven by an agenda, or a simplistic and pure love for the betterment of God’s kingdom?

When you study, do you strive to learn the truth or find a way to justify your position?

I wish it was easier, but it isn’t. Personally, I do not like answering these questions, but it must be done.

We must examine ourselves honestly, admit mistakes, act Christ-like, and pray for God’s strength to do what is right.

Planning for 2025

December 31, 2024 bobturner Daily Leadership, saltJournal 0 Comments

Everyone knows the value of good planning. Leaders especially appreciate the need to make the proper plans to reach established goals.

Tonight we say goodbye to a year through which we will never walk again. We cannot relive it. We cannot change it. All we can do is examine it and make plans to do better in the future.

Plans are not New Year’s resolutions.

Plans are not goals.

Plans involve the activities necessary to keep our resolutions and reach our goals.

The old adage says, “Those who fail to plan, plan to fail.”

We all need short and long-term goals. How we plan to reach our goals makes a difference.

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