Seminar: An Introduction to Leadership Fitness, Financial Fitness, Physical Fitness, and Spiritual Fitness
Seminar: An Introduction to Leadership Fitness, Financial Fitness, Physical Fitness, and Spiritual Fitness
Lee Kind | 2019
Abstract
Seventy-two percent of the U.S. population experiences financial stress.1 Forty percent of the U.S. population is obese. 2 Because of the lack of personal financial fitness and physical fitness, corporations are experiencing declining productivity, confronting higher absenteeism, suffering from lower morale, and unnecessarily increasing operating costs.3 The status-quo of organizations taking a hands-off approach to employees lives outside the organization is no longer working; there now exists both a personal and professional reason to improve leadership fitness, financial fitness, and physical fitness of employees at work and at home. To overcome poor financial and health fitness requires leadership development skills, decision-making skills, and critical thinking skills people lack along with providing a supportive social environment to bring about lasting change.
If an organization invests in its people and coaches them on leadership fitness, financial fitness, and physical fitness, the organization will gain a competitive advantage against its peers. Leadership fitness is essential to bring about lasting, positive change as leadership influences others to achieve by providing purpose, motivation, and direction. 4 As an added benefit, the leadership development prepares people to lead more effectively in the core business areas as well.
The leadership fitness, financial fitness, physical fitness, and spiritual fitness seminar addresses the fitness problems mentioned above as well as ties in the spiritual dimension to support developmental aspects. Additionally, the seminar opens the door for follow-on learning with coaching and tailored seminars to help organizations and families become more effective leaders in all aspects of their lives. The health of our families, our organizations, our churches, and our nation are at stake. Statistics and God’s Word show leadership fitness, financial fitness, physical fitness, and spiritual fitness are intertwined. The only way to make a positive difference in our society is to build a relationship with people, help them understand their problems, provide potential tools to empower solutions, and then help develop a community to embrace positive change.
1 American Psychological Association, “Stress in America: Paying with our health.” www.apa.org/news/press/releases/stress/2014/stress-report.pdf (2014).
2 N. Christakis, J. Fowler, “The spread of obesity in a large social network over 32 years.” New England Journal of Medicine (2007): 357(4):370-379.
3 Brian Nelson-Ford, A workplace financial wellness program. Benefits Magazine (Dec 2017).
4 U.S. Army, Military leadership (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army, 1990).