by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
The Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence created the following evidence-based approach for integrating social and emotional learning into schools. The mnemonic to remember them is RULER. RULER helps us teach “soft skills” or the skills of emotional...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | DECISION MAKING
Strategist, Roger Martin, and former P&G CEO A.G. Lafley say in their book, Playing to Win, that strategy is about choosing to do some things and not other things. This is essentially what wise decision-making is. Wise decision making is choosing to so somethings...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | TRUST & COOPERATION
We all know that trust is the currency for all effective relationships. It’s always been that way from the day the humans first set foot on the planet. Trust is why our hunter-gatherer ancestors created communities. Trust is why city walls were built, to allow...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | COMMUNICATION
The Cs of communication provide a checklist for ensuring that your written and oral communication is clear and effective. You can apply it to your emails, reports, meetings, conference calls ,and presentations so that your audience gets your message. The C’s of...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | FAITH & GROWTH, Leadership
We all know that trust is the currency for all effective relationships. But how do we build and rebuild trust? Many researchers and philosophers have written about trust and persuasion. Aristotle spoke of three modes of persuasion in rhetoric: ethos, pathos, and...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | PEACEMAKING HABITS
We all know that we need honest feedback to improve and grow. Lavishing praise on people all the time doesn’t help them. But we also know that it can be difficult to give honest feedback without creating a toxic environment and shutting the creative juices of...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | Orphan Care
Dr. Miriam Adeney, an anthropologist, missiologist, author, and associate professor of World Christian Studies at Seattle Pacific University, recounted the following story that an African Christian friend told her. “Let me tell you a story about Americans,” an...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | WISDOM
When I watched the 2012 film, Lincoln, directed by Steven Spielberg, the words of president Lincoln from a scene with Thaddeus Stevens stroke me as some of the wisest words I have ever heard. They transformed the way I work with the truth and with wisdom. Stevens...
by Dr. Kenneth Acha, MD, DMin. | Leadership
A large child sponsorship organization that I respect says on their website, “Sponsoring a child with our organization is the most cost-effective way to end extreme child poverty.” I have founded and ran a child sponsorship and leadership development...
