Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
The Evolution of a Leader
Don’t be discouraged if you wrestle with yourself in leadership … it’s normal, and it can help others truly know you.
Adrian Pei
Leading Without Agendas
A professor of spirituality and ministry discovers that trust grows when leaders notice and release their own agendas.
L. Roger Owens
Are Leaders Born or Made?
The classic argument – nurture or nature – is well represented in leader development philosophies everywhere. We would all agree that some people are “born leaders,” but is it really that simple?
Malcolm Webber
New Realities of Church Leadership
The church is encountering significant paradigm shifts in our current age. We must understand these shifts, and be prepared to shift with them.
Malcolm Webber
Leading Transformation
Transformational leaders strive for higher goals. They engage the full person of the follower. And they initiate the actions that change the course of organizations.
Malcolm Webber
Building Leaders in Real Life
We need to reconnect a leader’s responsibility to do leadership work with his responsibility to build leaders.
Malcolm Webber
8 Ways Older Believers Can Invest In Younger Believers
Similarly, encourage the young men to be self-controlled. In everything set them an example by doing what is good (Titus 2:6-7a). Here are some ways to “jumpstart” that commitment.
Chuck Lawless
Six Key Traits Of “Unleaders”
The author of “Unleader” discusses the common traits she has found in effective leaders during her 15 years as president and CEO of Development Associates International.
Jane Overstreet
Leaders Are Built Through Fire
As we prayerfully introduce pressure into our design, we give our emerging leaders the opportunity to more deeply embrace the cross and the resurrection life that follows.
Malcolm Webber
Is Your Leadership More Than Words?
If you want to be the kind of leader whose organization is on the cutting edge, stop asking for someone to give you an answer you already know. Great leaders have the courage to act!
Mike Mowery
How to Challenge Your Emerging Leaders
A challenging assignment is like a rubber band: once stretched, it never returns to its original shape. If stretched too far, it will break. If released at the wrong time, it will hurt everyone involved.
Malcolm Webber
What is Leadership Part 2 Seminar
On September 15th, 2018, LeaderSource will be hosting part 2 of the seminar "What is Leadership."
LeaderSource Team Member
8 Gifts to “Pour Into” the Leaders You’re Developing
It’s great to be “pouring into” people. That’s a popular phrase in today’s leadership environment. I’ve used it because I like the word picture of it. Whatever I may have learned about life and leadership, I’m supposed to be passing along to others. But what does the phrase really mean? What, exactly, are we to pour into the people we lead?
Brandon Cox
Is Your Leadership More Than Words?
If you want to be the kind of leader whose organization is on the cutting edge, stop asking for someone to give you an answer you already know. Great leaders have the courage to act!
Mike Mowery
Knowing When to Go
How do you know when it is time to go? When is time to step back from ministry? Is there a good time to make a change?
Jay Temple
The Focus of a Leader
After years of working with young developing leaders, I have come to the conclusion that if a leader focuses on two basic truths, he will be successful.
Ron Cline
8 Reasons Why Right Now’s the Right Time to Develop Young Leaders
If you’re considering expanding what you offer in terms of leader-development (in school, at home, on an athletic team or at work), let me incentivize you. Below are eight reasons why I believe that now is a perfect time to equip emerging leaders to serve.
Tim Elmore
The Loneliness of Leadership
There is sometimes loneliness in leadership which cannot be avoided.
Ron Edmondson
Overcoming the Battles Young Leaders Face in Our Stressful World
Almost every leader under 40 feels it – the constant stress, anxiety and uncertainty we’re all plagued by. Dr. Tim Elmore is a world-renowned expert on the issues facing today’s students and young adults. We dive into why so many young adults feel constant anxiety and uncertainty and how to deal with it, with strategies for young adults themselves and every leader who leads them.
Carey Nieuwhof
How to Nurture a Christian Way of Life
How to form Christians today is unclear. The challenge is that the basic patterns of life have shifted in an increasingly digital and networked world. The new patterns have not fully emerged, but the shifts are as profound as the move from farm to factory in earlier generations.
Dave Odom