shawn sommerkamp Archives

04 May

ZOOM Session 21 – Dealing With Work Jerks (HINT: They’re Not Jerks)

By Motivationeer
In DiSC, Mindset, Premium Content, Thinking, ZOOM Sessions

It's hard being nice to jerks, especially those that are out to get us. The first step in managing these difficult relationships is understanding they are not actually jerks. They are likely just annoying you because of a universal truth of behavioral interaction. Some types of people just...

04 May

ZOOM S2 Session 05 – How to Minimize 12-Hour Workdays

By Motivationeer
In Christian Entrepreneur, Earning Potential, Organization, Planning, Premium Content, Prioritization, Video, ZOOM Sessions

It's great to be ambitious and hard working. What's not as great is when we get caught in the cycle of 12-hour days. We often justify the work by saying to ourselves, "I have to do this just to keep afloat." We eventually make it a habit of working harder...

04 May

ZOOM S2 Session 01 – How to Know If You Are a Rich Fool

By Motivationeer
In Ambition, Premium Content, Video, ZOOM Sessions

No one wants to be foolish…even less so a fool. How can we, as devoted followers of Christ, know if we are being a rich fool in our professional aspirations? The answer is found in God word, in general, and some really unexpected places, specifically. I'll give...

02 Sep

ZOOM Session 022 – How Activity-Stacking Saves Time by Doubling Output

This is not a coaching session on multi-tasking. REPEAT: This is not about multi-tasking. Multi-tasking is impossible and worst and horribly inefficient at best. This is about training your brain to use the same time period to accomplish two tasks with no extra effort. When we start looking for how...

02 Sep

ZOOM Session 015 – Waiting Tables: How to Minimize Duties to Maximize Impact

By Motivationeer
In Earning Potential, Emotional Intelligence, Jesus, Leadership, Performance Management, Premium Content, Prioritization, Strategy, Success, Video, ZOOM Sessions

Getting ahead in this competitive marketplace means knowing when we aren't adding value. To make the biggest impact, it's important to recognize when we're just waiting tables. For Christians who believe in servant leadership, this goes against our training. After all, aren't we supposed to be willing to do even...

30 Aug

ZOOM Session 016 – The Top 10 Things That Ruin Careers

It's really easy to think of catastrophic blunders that bring an immediate end to a job. I imagine punching a boss or embezzling money or drug use at work. That's not what this top-10 list covers. In this video we review those subtle things we do, mostly without even realizing...

30 Aug

ZOOM Session 013 – Unconscious Incompetence in Emotionally Intelligent Leaders

In Deuteronomy 29:29 it says "the secret things belong to the Lord." There is a profound wisdom in acknowledging how little we actually know. As a famous theologian named Thomas Watson once said, "The greatest part of our knowledge is not as much as the least part of our...

19 Aug

ZOOM Session 018 – Why David’s Leadership Style Always Works

By Motivationeer
In Dealing with Stress, Leadership, Prayer, Premium Content, Servant Leadership, Video, ZOOM Sessions

There is one chapter in the Bible so densely packed with leadership insight, it's hard to imagine how the author of Samuel 1 came about the content. The chapter is 1 Samuel 30 and it chronicles a short stretch of time in David's life, before he became king. It's...

16 Aug

ZOOM Session 014 – H.A.L.T. – Overcoming Negative Emotion at Work

We all experience negative emotion in the workplace. I think it fair to say we all realize negative emotions don't serve our career very well. In this group executive coaching session I explore a new way to consider the possible causes of the negative emotion and some really fantastic...

16 Aug

ZOOM Session 017 – Your Next Move…Make It Strategic

By Motivationeer
In Agreeableness, Ambition, Career Growth, Organization, Performance Management, Personal Growth, Premium Content, Strategy, Video, ZOOM Sessions

Few professionals, let alone Christian professionals, take the time to plan out a career path. It takes strategic thinking, like you might find in a chess match. In this video I take examples from three chess grand-masters to parallel with career aspirations. As it says in Proverbs 21:5, the...