GIVING Leadership with Grace
The dictionary defines grace as simple elegance or refinement of movement. Think about a ballerina moving ever so gracefully across a stage, or a prince or princess gracefully moving about their day inside or outside their castle. They walk, talk, and live with grace. Grace can also mean forGIVEness, or in other words, letting go of your
GIVING Peace with a Compelling Vision
Leadership and Vision John Kotter defines a vision as “a picture of the future with some implicit or explicit commentary on why people should strive to create that future.” Whether you’re a leader for your organization, in your community, or even a leader among your peers, a compelling vision has the power to GIVE peace to those
GIVING Leadership with Empathy
Empathy is the ability to understand and actually feel what other people are feeling. It means to put yourself in their shoes and feeling what it must be like to be experiencing what they are experiencing. If we are going to be a community of people who set out each day to be of service to
GIVE Leadership by Living Your Personal Values
Sometimes the easiest way to help other people is to simply understand our own value and what makes us unique and special. Once we understand our own personal value, we can pour ourselves into other people to lift them up; and perhaps even help them understand their own strengths and personal values. Personal Values Personal values are our
GIVE Leadership by Initiating Your Ideas
Being intentional is all about initiating our ideas. Here are four things we need, in order to be an initiator: 1 - Every initiator first needs an idea – it all starts with an idea. Be vulnerable and optimistic enough to share yours 2 - Courage – even though starting something new can be scary, if we have
Four Ways to GIVE Leadership with Your Gratitude
The magic of letting yourself feel gratitude is that you’re simply so thankful and appreciative of someone else that you’re not anxious about having to pay anything back to them. However, it is important to show them you’re grateful. Gratefulness means “to be full of heart”. This means when we appreciate all we have and all the
GIVE Leadership
At its core, leadership is: To inspire and motivate others to become the best versions of themselves, do their best work, and deliver desired results for their team. “Great leadership inspires and motivates the right behaviors, at the right times, for the right purpose, to achieve agreed upon objectives.” ~ Lead With Hospitality, LLC Consider your favorite hospitality experience
Give Hospitality by Volunteering
Did You Know? When we volunteer our own time, GIVING of ourselves to specific causes or people in need, we not only make a positive impact on others, but we’re also blessed with the following scientifically proven benefits: -Counteracts the effects of stress, depression, and anxiety -Makes you happy -Increases self-confidence, as you meet new people doing new things -Provides
GIVING Hospitality by Inspiring Others
If you describe someone or something good as an inspiration, you mean that they make you or other people want to do or achieve something. Inspiration GIVEs us so much hope in certain situations because it’s ultimately what compels us into action, to want to do or create something special. American psychologist, Scott Barry Kaufman’s article in Harvard
GIVING Hospitality Through Generosity
Generosity is a virtue of freely GIVING gifts to others or to something other than ourselves. It’s GIVING of gifts. Sometimes it could be tangible gifts. Other times it’s intangibles such as GIVING someone a bit of our time, whether we’re listening to them, helping them through something, or even helping them with a project. Science and research


