Below is an excerpt of an article I wrote for Youth Specialties. Click the link at the bottom to read the entire piece.

Leaders are learners, right? You have probably heard this saying many times. Maybe it’s a cliché, but it still rings true. If we are going to lead well, we have to keep learning and growing.
My wife and I have often said we’d love to go back to college and experience that again: Constantly being in a state of development with professors pouring into us. Maybe that’s an option for you, but for most of us, it isn’t. Not only is it expensive, but also requires time that many of us do not have.
Ongoing development doesn’t have to be that difficult or costly. In fact, it is much simpler than you might think…