Nobody likes to face the prospect of looking for a new job. What a hassle that is, and a major disruption to your life. But there are times when it becomes necessary to do so. What are those times? Here are six that I can think of:
- Conflict with supervisor. Probably the key relationship you have in the workplace is with your supervisor. If that relationship is positive, that is a good thing. However, if there is conflict and stress in that relationship it can spill over into other parts of your life (family, church, etc.). If you have unresolved conflict with your supervisor, you may need to change jobs.
In our ongoing series of leadership attributes, we now look at trust and leadership. In their excellent book Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust, Ken Blanchard and Randy Conley clearly show the connection between being a servant leader and trust. 
In our series on leadership attributes, we now look at self-discipline. Self-discipline is important in all areas of life, not just for leaders. We need to demonstrate self-discipline to do those things that are important to us, even when we don’t feel like doing them. For example, we need to demonstrate discipline to read the Bible daily even when we are very busy. We need to demonstrate the discipline to get physical exercise – for me it is walking – even when the weather is not ideal. And we need to demonstrate discipline to eat a balanced diet, even when we would prefer to maintain a diet of pizza, hamburgers and ice cream. 
We previously looked at the leader communicating effectively. Related to that is the running of effective meetings. If you are like me, you dread meetings, well, at least poorly run meetings. Most meetings I’ve participated in over the years are boring and ineffective. But meetings are the place when many important decisions are made. As a result, great leaders need to run great meetings.
Dan Hurley is the head men’s basketball coach at the University of Connecticut. He won back-to-back NCAA championships in 2023 and 2024. He tells his story and shares his leadership philosophies in his new book Never Stop: Life, Leadership, and What It Takes to Be Great, written with Ian O’Connor. 
In the organization that I worked at, there were three “Obligations of Leadership” for all of our leaders. They were: drive results, build a high performing work environment and develop people. I believe that’s a good summation of what the obligations of each leader should be. However, the achievement of each of these obligations was not rewarded equally. What I tended to see was that those who drove results were rewarded and recognized at a higher level than those who built a high performing work environment or those who excelled at developing others. And as important as those latter things are, organizations pay leaders to drive results and move their organizations forward. In our series on leadership attributes, we now look at the importance of leaders driving results. A leader who is results driven excels in many leadership attributes and competencies. Briefly, here are 10 of them: 
In our series on leadership attributes, we have previously looked at how leaders are learners. They demonstrate continuous and lifelong learning. A subset of continuous learning is reading. Leaders are readers.
In our series on leadership attributes, we now turn to perhaps an underappreciated attribute – listening. Leaders are good listeners. I would go even further and say that listening is an underappreciated skill for everyone, not just leaders. For example, when I was working full-time and attending seminary, I was constantly tired. My mind was going in all directions about work and my studies. My wife Tammy and I would regularly meet at a restaurant for an early dinner after work before I would begin studying in the evening. More than once in the middle of a conversation, she would say “You haven’t heard a word that I’ve said, have you?” She was right. I was distracted, thinking about what had happened at work that day, or what I needed to do that evening, whether it was reading, writing a paper or studying for an exam. Whatever the reason, my lack of good listening showed a lack of respect for my wife.