Articles in this category focus on rejoicing in the community of other believers, how to build and nurture community, and how to better reflect Jesus Christ to our brothers and sisters in the faith.
How you handle hard times will set the tone for how your team handles those same hard times. If youâre running around like a headless chicken, or acting like a sulky toddler who missed out on their favorite ice cream, people will consider the way you are leading â and then they will quickly follow suit.
Suzi McAlpine
Letâs spread more kindness this year, without expecting anything in return. This week letâs commit ourselves to a simple act of kindness each day at our workplace.
Elaine Vitikainen
Watch your pronouns. It might just make you a better leader!
Mike Mowery
Awkwardness in evangelism, and indeed no evangelism at all, is because we desperately need to re-examine how we do life as followers of Yeshua.
Nick Franks
Pastors may lead the church as shepherds, but they are not the owners. They are not the only ones who will be held responsible for the condition of the church. Thatâs on us all.
Tyler Edwards
With Godâs grace, we can be at peace wherever we are.
Priya Ashvita Raj Kumar
The churchâs leadership team worked through the delicate discussion of whether to choose a target demographic group to focus on reaching for Christ. Here are eight questions a leadership team can ask to discover their target group.
Brian Thorstad
Studies have linked empathy to greater patient satisfaction, better outcomes, decreased physician burnout, and a lower risk of malpractice suits and errors. Doctors need to understand people, not just science, and healthy leaders need to cultivate empathy in order to affect the lives of those around them.
Malcolm Webber
During this crisis that forces isolation, we must make sure to look beyond our quasi-connection with millions of people. Letâs make a real effort to foster a few strong individual connections. May God lead to safely help others without contributing to the transmission of the disease. Instead we want to let God lead us to contribute to [...]
Jim Brenneman
Marginalized employees â they are in your organization, right now. Theyâre on the fringes. They are the people who donât join in. What lessons does Jesusâ life teach us about putting our arms around these people and insuring they feel valued as well?
Mark Deterding
Questions can be a way to improve the health on a team. And, sometimes even improve an unhealthy team member. Itâs all in picking the right questions. And, asking them.
Ron Edmondson
From the beginning of creation, God had a clear vision for generational succession. Everything we do should carry this vision!
Malcolm Webber
Conflict is unavoidable in relationships. Conflict isnât necessarily sinful or destructive, but it can be depending on what we do with it. Jesus outlines a clear, specific, and workable process in Matthew 18.
Charles Stone
âHow do I confront my leader?â Because God uses confrontation to mature us and develop us and because a life without confrontation is a life without growth, it is an important question. But it is also a dangerous question.
Eric Geiger
Jesus taught that being trustworthy in the small things leads to greater trust with the big things (Matt. 25:21). The movie Braveheart, about Scot highlander William Wallace, illustrated this value of faithfulness in the small things.
Jess MacCallum
To cultivate trust, leaders must contribute to a sense of safety, commit themselves to listening, empower others to act, learn from their mistakes, and promise only what they can deliver.
Dave Odom
Leading a team is one of the most difficult things you can ever do. The individuals on the team are different, yet they need to work together to create a cohesive team that has a personality and life of its own.
Fred Noble
Healthy organizations need the tension between chaos and order. Every company needs both fire and water. Every company needs a healthy soul.
Paul Metler
Effective leaders strengthen others and foster collaboration.
Malcolm Webber
Great teams feel valued by those who lead them.
Charles Stone