Burst Podcast Season 2: Principle #1
Join Brent as he breaks down the 18 Principles of Healthy Leader Development in Season 2!
Brent Hoover
Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
Brent Hoover
Leadership Development through Biography
We all know that the most effective leadership development takes place in a true mentoring relationship, where life impacts life on a frequent basis. However, I have found that stories of real people can be powerful instruments in God’s hands.
DR. G. Wright Doyle
Questions or Answers
What makes a better teacher: the ability to ask the right questions or having all the answers? Is it better to be the “Bible Answer Person” or the one who encourages the learner to think? Remarkably, Jesus only answered three of the 307 questions He asked. Why was that?
David Goodman
Truly Christ-Centered Leader Development
Burned out and frustrated Christian leaders are now recognizing that they have been absorbed in His work more than in His Person. Our training programs might harness the latest and greatest of human wisdom and methods, but if we do not bring our emerging leaders into face-to-face encounters with the Son of God, lives will not be changed. [...]
Malcolm Webber
God’s Commitment to Leftovers
In the desert with little water and scarce food, it is a struggle to survive, and that can lead to discouragement. God never wanted life for Jewish leaders to be such a struggle when they came back from Babylon, but they were measuring their problems against their own puny strength rather than measuring them against our mighty God. They [...]
Raj Chelvaraj
Is Caring a Weakness in Leadership?
As Rick James once wrote, “Effective leadership is not simply about skills, qualifications, titles, positions or even responsibilities; it is actually about who we are and how we relate to God and to other people.“ What kind of leader are you?
Elaine Vitikainen
30 Questions Every Leader Can Ask To Become a Better Coach
Whether you’re a CEO, teacher, parent, project leader or any other kind of a leader, you need to know how to coach your team. The need for coaching has never been greater. Gallup’s research shows that a team that is highly engaged has double the chance of job performance and success. Here are 30 questions you can ask to become a better [...]
Paul Sohn
Leadership and Power (from Abusive Leadership)
Abusive leaders and servant leaders relate to power differently. Find out more in this brief excerpt from Abusive Leadership by Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber
How Leaders Shape Organizational Culture
A comprehensive video training for shaping a healthy culture in your organization.
Malcolm Webber
Depending on the Holy Spirit for Life in the Church
What is the place of the Holy Spirit in believers’ lives in a Healthy Church?
Jim Brenneman
Intentional Informal Discipleship
How did Jesus teach His disciples in the day-to-day ministry?
Brent Hoover
Failures, Missteps and Discovery: Why Leaders Should Embrace Mistakes
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Suzi McAlpine
Feeling the Heat
Leadership work is a performance and we are like the drums. If we are hard and unprepared we may break when the beating starts. To prepare us ‒ we go through the fire process. We are warmed up, stretched out and made ready for our beating. As the Bible says, we go through the refiner’s fire.
Dr. Stanley Arumugam
LeaderID – How to Identify High-Potential Emerging Leaders
“The largest stumbling block to leadership development in the global Church is that we train the wrong people.” (Ralph Winter)
Malcolm Webber
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.
Malcolm Webber
How to Write a Letter to an Emerging Leader
Paul’s letters are incredible examples of how to build leaders.
Brent Hoover
Growing Healthy Leaders to Grow Healthy Churches
Much has been written on growing healthy leaders who can in turn grow healthy churches. It seems an obvious concern but in my experience many Christian leaders do not really see it as part of their brief; church growth is something for the specialist or the traveling evangelist. Too many appear called to maintenance rather than mission.
Gordon Mylchreest
Do You Need to Go Bananas?
Which kind of leader are you – a banana tree or a mango tree? There are those leaders who are like banana trees: everywhere they go, they replicate. They mentor others so that others can exercise their leadership abilities and their gifts, they open up conversations for others to join and give their opinion, and they are in the business [...]
Marilyn Gardner
Video: Resilience! Building Holistic Strength into Christian Leaders
A new video training from one of our LeaderCare trainers, Brent Hoover.
Brent Hoover
Three Biblical Images for the Building of the Church
Our purpose is to work with God in the building of His Church according to His Word. Find out more in this excerpt from Church Planting in the Book of Acts, by Malcolm Webber.
Malcolm Webber