We seek first to understand because, knowing Jesus has provided for our every need, we desire to give other people what they truly need. Therefore, we can risk our words, reputations, and even our lives to better understand others in order to provide solutions that help them flourish.

Cultivating relationships with clients and coworkers that seek their mutual benefit, and not just our own, creates lasting impact. In this video, Tom Fowlkes from Deloitte Consulting and Will Walker from Walker Financial Management share stories about how they’ve applied this principle in their daily work.

This week Tom Fowlkes joins Howard to discuss how winning in business doesn’t mean that someone else is losing. We live in a world of abundance, not scarcity. You’ll hear how approaching daily decisions at work with this abundance mentality facilitates relationships of mutual benefit with clients and coworkers.

In business relationships, each party — vendor and client, employee and employer — must offer considerable strategic value to the other to create a win/win relationship. Win/Win thinking requires consideration and courage that flow from a life of character — character that is full of love, wisdom, and truth that combine to create an abundance informed long-term approach to life and work.

Matthew Gant joins Howard to discuss how to create long term victories in the insurance business and in all of life and work. On this special Good Friday release, you will hear how this principle has the potential to reshape your relationships with your clients as well as your coworkers — enabling opportunities of abundance for everyone. The Way of Jesus is loss for our gain and Jesus appoints us to do the same (John 15:16).

God defines success differently than we do. In this video, Ronnie Stevens draws from Acts 14-16 to define our primary calling / vocation and reshape our anemic definition of success and failure. You will hear how God’s call informs everything we need to know about why, how, when, and where to work.

In this episode, Rob Thompson joins Howard to explain how to go from knowing what is important to accomplishing the most important things in our lives and work. You’ll hear how to put in place a practical routine that helps ensure the important things get done — all while staying flexible enough to make time for the most important people in your life.

Extraordinarily effective people make choices, have an opportunity based mindset, and are focused on relationships. Howard covers these keys from Put First Things First — Habit 3 of Stephen Covey’s book, 7 Habit of Highly Effective people, and provides a practical framework for how to work on what is most important without getting caught up ineffective actions or time-wasting activities.

Do you want to start increasing your effectiveness today? If so, you have important choices to make. Our choices determine our effectiveness and prove our faithfulness.