Malcolm Webber – Page 2 – Healthy Leaders

Author

Malcolm Webber

About the Author

Originally from Australia, Malcolm came to Christ in 1980. He is married to Ruth; they have six children. Malcolm is the founder and executive director of LeaderSource SGA, an international leader development ministry. He is also the founder and senior pastor of Living Faith Fellowship – a multicultural church in Indiana, USA. With a successful background in the business world, Malcolm holds his Ph.D. in the field of organizational leadership and works with Christian leaders in many nations. He has written over 30 books, the most popular of which is To Enjoy Him Forever, and his writings have been published in both scholarly and popular journals. His Leadership Letters are read by thousands of leaders around the world every month. Malcolm is deeply committed to the preeminence and centrality of Jesus Christ, the priesthood of every believer, healthy leadership and holistic leader development, and the global calling of the local church.

Going Against the Flow

Going Against the Flow

Check Yourself: Is Your Vision Abusive?

Where are you going? How will you get your followers to go with you? How you answer these questions will define whether you are an abusive leader or a servant leader.

Don’t Just Be Accountable to Your Leader – Be Accountable to Each Other!

The effectiveness and health of a team is directly associated with developing a common working approach.

How Does Your Team Eat That Elephant? One Bite at a Time.

The effectiveness and health of a team is directly associated with sharing common goals.

The Thinker

The Thinker

Unify Your Team NOW!

The effectiveness and health of a team is directly associated with a unified vision.

11 Things Healthy Followers MUST Do Daily

The health and growth of an organization or church depends on every member taking responsibility for the whole – and healthy followers will do so in eleven primary ways.

6 Ways Followers Influence Leaders

Followers possess extraordinary power. Here’s how they can use it.

The One Characteristic of a Healthy Church

While there are many popular, and valuable, models of what constitutes a “healthy church,” biblically, there is one key characteristic. If this is in place, everything else will follow.

Leaders Rarely Listen Well! Here’s How to Fix That

A leader’s ultimate success depends directly upon his effectiveness as a listener.

Why Leaders Don’t Listen

Osmo Wiio’s first law of communication is that “Communication usually fails, except by chance.” The barriers to effective listening are numerous. In order to be effective leaders, we must identify and understand that which hinders us from effective listening.

10 Ways to Destroy the Culture of Your Ministry

In a time of so much uncertainty it’s comforting to know there are some rock-solid, absolutely guaranteed, methods to destroy the culture of whatever it is you’re leading. Here they are. Try them out!

Abusive Leaders and Servant Leaders

Leaders have a choice: they can hold onto their power and use it purely for selfish ends, or they can give their power away to others.

Leaders Act!

Sometimes weathering a storm is just the act of hanging on for dear life. Most times, however, leaders must do more than that. You cannot wait for the perfect world. It will never come. You’re in the middle of a very messy one – so deal with it. And the better you do at taking initiative, the more responsibilities you will be given and the messier it will become.

Transformational Leadership

Transformation is radical change. To transform means to change in the way that a caterpillar transforms into a butterfly, or a tadpole into a frog, or a baby into a child and then into an adult. After the process is completed, it is as if the older form ceases to exist.

Why Commission Matters

Essentially, commission establishes boundaries. Authority does not come from gifting; it comes from commission.

You’re Working on the Wrong Things and It’s Wearing You Out!

Many leaders are very conscientious and have a hard time giving away power to others. To be sure that things are done properly, they often end up just doing the work themselves. As a result, they are exhausted and their team members are frustrated. But how do we know which responsibilities we can give away and which ones we personally must do?

Leaders Need Friends

Any leader is only complete when they have healthy, nourishing friendships. Specifically, they must be nurtured through four different communities.

The Essential Nature of Prayer

We all would agree that prayer is important, but for many of us it doesn’t hold an essential place in our minds. Let’s take a moment and go back to how Jesus built leaders.

The Three Works of the Holy Spirit: Discipline

In the final part of this series, we sift through the various aspects of a Spirit-filled, disciplined walk with God.