Building Leaders

Video: How to Identify High-Potential Emerging Leaders

How do we strategically identify the best leaders to build?

Malcolm Webber

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

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

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

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

3 Indications of Really Bad Leadership

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

Eric Geiger

5 Things People Who Love Change Need to Know

Change must be directed and pursued with intentionality and within reason lest it becomes simply spinning circles.

Barnabas Piper

Jesus Intentionally Built Leaders

Transformation of a caterpillar into a gorgeous butterfly is biologically amazing. Transforming fishermen, shepherds, and tax collectors into mighty men of faith and leadership was the intentional act of Jesus. The results were obvious, turning the world upside down. Such should be the results of our own discipleship. God freely gives [...]

Stan DeKoven

Church is a Leadership Factory

The church ought to see itself as a leadership factory that stirs up the gifts of God in people, not an auditorium that gathers people behind a leader. Jesus did not build His Church by recruiting the 12 brightest from the rabbi’s list of “up and coming stars” and platforming them in large stadiums around the world. His disciples were [...]

J.D. Greear

Our Work Is Not Our Own

I have learned once again that our “work “is truly God’s work. And we are used by him to accomplish his purposes in his way and his time.

Brent Hoover

How to Inspire Poor Performers to Hold Themselves Accountable

Unaddressed poor performers are holding back your team and your company. If you don’t deal directly with sub-par performance you will not maximize the value that your organization provides. And you are not developing your people by letting this type of performance slide.

Mark Deterding

Defining The New Role of the Baby-Boomer Leader

This generation has become more like a bump in the road. Maybe even a valley. And many organizations are recognizing it is time, even though the job seems undone, to prepare to hand the reins of leadership over to the emerging generation of Millennials. If Baby-Boomer leaders hold the baton of leadership too tightly or too long, the [...]

Phil Wood

Do What I Ask. Huh?

"If only my people would just do what I ask!" I've heard too many leaders utter those words and then, in their frustration, implement solutions that don't seem to make things better. Maybe leaders can sharpen their approach with a simple shift in the question they ask themselves.

Corey Olynik

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

The Loneliness of Leadership

There is sometimes loneliness in leadership which cannot be avoided.

Ron Edmondson

Great Leaders are Great Observers

Many of the leaders I’ve known aren’t too quick to speak, despite their many years of life. They have a quiet confidence about them and an inner security in who they are. They look at the people and world around them with curiosity and they listen more than they talk.

Adrian Pei

How to Change the World Without Ever Leaving Town

Somewhere in your town, in your church, in your class, is someone who can become a mighty instrument of the Lord. Someone just needs to reach them, to tell them of Jesus and to disciple them.

Joe McKeever

Thinking About Leadership Alignment

Leadership team alignment distinguishes one organization from another. It takes time and intentional effort to achieve and maintain organizational alignment.

Paul Greasley

Leadership Development and Ministry Effectiveness

Some gaps, like holes in rocky cliffs, cannot be closed. However, gaps in leadership competencies can be closed. Jesus’ model of investing in leaders worked. Sam shares three observations of how leader development tuned toward leaders’ own context increases effectiveness, which makes it an excellent investment.

Samuel Voorhies

Cultural Models of Leadership

While many models of supposedly Christian leadership exist throughout the world they often spring primarily from the local culture. God identifies obedience and a heart after Him as keys to leadership that is pleasing to Him.