Eric Geiger, Author at Healthy Leaders

Author

Eric Geiger

About the Author

Eric Geiger serves as one of the Vice Presidents at LifeWay Christian Resources, leading the Church Resources Division. Eric received his doctorate in leadership and church ministry from Southern Seminary. He is also a teaching pastor and a frequent speaker and consultant on church mission and strategy. Eric authored or co-authored several books including Creature of the Word and the best selling church leadership book, Simple Church. Eric is married to Kaye, and they have two daughters: Eden and Evie. During his free time, Eric enjoys dating his wife, playing with his daughters, and shooting basketball.

6 Essential Identities of a Ministry Leader

As God’s people, our activity must be rooted in the identity He has graciously given us. Eric writes about six essential identities a ministry leader must have.

Four Reasons Burnout Is More Prevalent in Leadership

The burden of ministry is that ministry is never over. Those in ministry leadership never punch a clock. Caring for people is never done. Shepherding others is never done because their sanctification is never done.

The Biggest Way People on Your Team Know You Value Them

How can a leader let each person on the team know they are valued? When people you serve sense that you are responding specifically to them they know they are valued. Here are four ways leaders should respond to each person on the team.

4 Ways to Spot an Interested Leader

It is far better to have people on your team who are interested than it is people who are constantly worrying about being interesting.

3 Ways to Hate Sin in Others More Than in Ourselves

We can be exponentially more disgusted with the sin in other people’s lives than we are with our own. Our own sin can fail to anger us the way someone else’s sin does. Here are three common examples of this.

3 Mistakes Leaders Make as Soon as They Wake Up

If a leader begins a day in chaos, the entire day will likely be chaotic. Instead, a leader should begin the day with his/her affections set on the Lord and with the mind focused on what is most important.

Take Responsibility for Your Own Feedback

Without feedback, your growth as a leader is stunted. But what if your boss or leader does not offer feedback? Or not enough of it? Here are three places to find valuable feedback.

3 Common Ways Leaders Miscommunicate

Communication and leadership are intertwined and deeply connected. When leaders fumble in execution, culture formation, or rallying a team, the fumble is often in communication. Leadership mistakes are often synonymous with communication mistakes.

3 Indications of Really Bad Leadership

To be a good leader, choose compassion over cruelty, clarity over chaos, and humility over self-consumption.

Leaders Must Create More Capacity, But How?

Wise leaders apply their best thinking to the most important things. This is, of course, easier said than done because of the sheer volume of things that leaders are asked or required to think about. Because we are finite and flawed, we have a limited amount of mental capacity. So how can a leader create mental capacity?

3 Reasons Leaders Must Excel at Prioritization

If a leader does not set priorities, the pressures of today and the problems that fill an inbox will dominate every day’s agenda.

3 Warning Signs a Leader Is Growing Numb

How do you recognize numbness in your own leadership? Here are three warning signs.

Don’t Be a Perpetual 300-foot Leader

Leaders must execute, must drop into details at times, and must be connected to the work, but leaders must also rise above the daily grind.

4 Failings of the 60,000-foot Leader

It is important for leaders to go to 30,000 feet. Go there. Just don’t live at 60,000. It is dangerous that high.

6 Reasons You Should Say “Yes” When Asked to Lead in Your Church

As summer approaches, ministry leaders in many churches will spend time recruiting and training new leaders to serve in their church’s kids ministry, the youth ministry, and to lead groups and classes for adults. If you are approached and asked, here are six reasons you should say yes.

Brother Must Trump Boss

Bosses who are in sin need brothers to confront them.

5 Reasons We Struggle to Rest

We struggle to rest. Even on vacation, we can be restless. Why?

10 Signs You Are More Prideful Than You Realize

Though all of us struggle with pride, we often don’t recognize pride in our own lives and leadership.

3 Ways to Crush the Idol of Innovation

In ministry, innovation can be a great thing when utilized to reach and serve people. But like all great things, innovation can become an idol—something that ministry leaders seek as an end in itself. When innovation becomes the goal, it has moved from tool for reaching people to an object of affection. How do we know the difference?

10 Signs You Are More Prideful Than You Realize

Though all of us struggle with pride, we often don’t recognize pride in our own lives and leadership.