Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
The Loneliness of Leadership
There is sometimes loneliness in leadership which cannot be avoided.
Ron Edmondson
Change in Real Time: What You Need to Know As a Leader
What exactly is change, and how do we go about implementing it?
Malcolm Webber
Servant Leader vs. Steward Leader
The most commonly heard of the biblical models for Christian leadership is servant leadership. Christians commonly use this phrase, especially in relation to vocational ministry work. We are encouraged to be servants and serve others as Christ did.
Amanda Boardwine
Leader, Be Prepared! Your Followers May Resist Change.
People will resist change – it’s an unalterable fact. We must learn to use this resistance to serve and strengthen our followers and our plan for change.
Malcolm Webber
Parenting as Missionary Training
Most parenting training is fear-based. It’s focused on what to keep our kids away from. We want to immerse our kids in a vision bigger than stress, consumption and self. Some parents might think we’re crazy, or at least think we have too much on our plates. We wouldn’t go back and change a thing.
Alan Briggs
Leading with Love on the Line
Every significant moment in history was led by leaders who were committed to another way. Leaders who acted counter-culturally. Leaders who selflessly did what was right rather than what was popular or comfortable.
Jenni Catron
Overcoming the Battles Young Leaders Face in Our Stressful World
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
Seven Costs of Disciple-Making
Perhaps what might help us over our hurdles is not to hide how costly disciple-making is, but to be utterly honest and explicit about the costs, and hold them out in the light for us to see, and then find whether something in us might just rise to the peculiar glory of it all.
David Mathis
Do You Like Playing with Dominos?
Leadership can be fun and frustrating all at the same time. If you and your team are struggling with the uncertainties of leadership, the principles and questions in this post will help you reset your perspective.
Dan Lovaglia
12 Ways You Can Make Beautiful Music with Your Team Today
It takes a significant amount of work to develop these unifying characteristics in a team, but an effective team is worth the work.
Malcolm Webber
Five Things We Need From Our Leaders
Teacher, Equipper, Healer, and Challenger – a pastor who flourishes in these four roles will shepherd people to love Jesus Christ with all their heart, soul, mind and strength. Whole person ministry is critical to building people because every believer has a need to know, a need to be equipped, a need to be healed, and a need to be challenged.
Brent Hoover
3 Essentials in Christian Leadership Development
Effective leadership development combines training, experiences, and coaching.
Eric Geiger
Build or Enslave Others – It’s Your Choice
In Part Four of “Are You an Abusive Leader?” we explore the effects of abusive leadership on their followers and organizations.
Malcolm Webber
Mesmerize Your Followers So You Can Do Whatever You Want
In Part Three of “Are You an Abusive Leader?” we take a hard look at the personal qualities of abusive leaders, as opposed to servant leaders.
Malcolm Webber
Follow to Lead
We all have plenty of first-hand experience of being a follower since we were born and followed our parents. Perhaps we need to invest as much in becoming good followers as we do in developing our leadership?
Hiwot Alemayehu
How To Achieve Your Goals At the Expense of Your Followers
Maybe you know where you're going and how to get there, but how do you know when you've arrived? Your answer depends on whether you're an abusive leader or not.
Malcolm Webber
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.
Malcolm Webber
Why Leaders Must Not Be Afraid of Doing Hard Things
As leaders, doing what’s “most needed or important,” and serving others and the greater good, often requires doing the hard things in life, whether it’s confronting somebody or holding them accountable for their actions.
Adrian Pei
How Will You Build Up Your Archippus?
God has entrusted you to invest in people whose names and ministries will never be widely known. Here are five ways to build them up more effectively.
Dan Lovaglia
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.
Malcolm Webber