Finding Excellence

This book is a valuable resource for anyone who wants to improve their work-life or the work lives of others. It provides practical advice on how to maximize goodwill dissent and appreciating the strengths of others, to edify organizations and human relations.
The book is written for anyone who wants to improve their leadership skills. It provides practical advice and real-life examples that can be applied to any leadership position. Whether one is a parent, a student, a seasoned professional, or a CEO, this book helps them to become effective leaders.
The book’s focus is wide. It covers:
• The need for fostering feedback and how to achieve that,
• The need for fostering goodwill dissent and how to achieve it,
• Human flourishing,
• Emotional wellbeing,
• Finding excellence and investing in it,
• Practicing and sustaining excellence,
• Leadership perspectives on Constructive workplace dissent, Emotional wellbeing, and Human flourishing,


• Motivating and inspiring others,
• Decision making and pragmatism.
The author provides helpful tips and advice, draws from the experiences of others, and shares his own experiences as a leader. Some concepts are communicated through a cartoon and illustrations.
Maybe you are a worker who has been holding back your suggestions for fear of retaliation or pushback because you have experienced it before – and perhaps now you do not care anymore? Do you always think of ways to improve your work, but you never have the nerve to bring them up? You may benefit your organization, yourself, and others, by applying the ideas and insights presented in this book. Perhaps you are already in a managerial position and, though competent, you fail to fully leverage the knowledge and experience of your subordinates. You also know that the organizational culture has never valued employees speaking up, and you have no idea how to course correct it. I hope that sharing the professional experiences of others and their techniques with you will inspire you to help your staff speak up and provide the finest of their ideas.
It honors God, who created humanity and gave human beings work to do both individually and together, when employers actively invite people to speak the truth in love and to criticize constructively. The Bible reveals that Jesus Christ “came from the Father, full of grace and truth,” demonstrating “gentleness and respect” (Ephesians 4:15; John 1:14; 1 Peter 3:15).
Promoting excellence is one strategy for fostering goodwill dissent, and human flourishing in the workplace. The EHIP Framework, which stands for "find excellence, go higher, invest and resource, practice and sustain," nurtures employee talents and helps employees in their efforts to give constructive feedback to organizations.

find Excellence:
In finding excellence, organizations acknowledge and celebrate the excellence they see in their employees. finding Excellence has to be genuine and publicly celebrated. Employers must publicly praise and privately correct people. When organizations or firms achieve greatness, or if they may have achieved an award, they must reward and recognize their employees’ contributions. Employers and employees may do well in dwelling on “whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable…[and] anything worthy of praise” (Philippians 4:8-9).
Go Higher:
The proper response to achievement is not to rest easy in one’s excellence now but to push oneself to new heights, to be creative, curious and ambitious. Employers and employees might do what futurists do and look a few years ahead to start painting the vision of the future they need based on the excellence of today. Employers and employees require downtime for rejuvenation and celebration, but they must also keep their eyes on the future they hope to create by visioning and drawing/picturing it. Today’s excellences must help to lay the foundations for what the future is calling to - the greater destiny God is calling people to.
Invest and resource:
Investing means putting pillars in place to support the futuristic vision. It's figuring out what anchor will work best and how deep you need to dig in order to sustain that future vision. This higher calling needs to be resourced with both human and financial capital, and a spiritual calling too. What do leaders put in place today to help the organization walk towards that vision, but also what resources would be needed to sustain that future when organizations reach there? A lot of forecasting needs to take place. Spaces then need to be created to journey that path. This creation of spaces might be through an innovation space in an organization. Les Brown once said,
The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone [did not invest in them]. (Brown, n.d.)
Practice & sustain: Practicing and sustaining is what breathes life to organizational and individual plans. The previous quotation from Les Brown applies here too. It is only when employers and employees genuinely take out fear from work places that goodwill dissent, emotional wellbeing, and joy at work begins to crystallize and permeate across an organization. Visions only have value if they are put into action and kept alive throughout time. A lion on paper remains a lion on paper, it is never real.
Employers and employees may use the EHIP framework for flourishing employee talents (see Figure 29). The EHIP framework was inspired by the following biblical Scripture.
Finally, [a]believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God’s word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart]. 9 The things which you have learned and received and heard and seen in me, practice these things [in daily life], and the God [who is the source] of peace and well-being will be with you. (Philippians 4:8-9)