What I Wish I Had Known 20 Years Ago as a Pastor
If you are just starting out in ministry, here are five key lessons Charles Stone learned over the last 20 years as a pastor.
Charles Stone
Competencies
Articles in this category focus on how a Christian leader can build and nurture competencies and apply them practically in ministry life.
Charles Stone
The Art of the Second Question
When you ask shallow questions, you get shallow answers. When you ask profound questions, you get profound answers.
Rodney Duttweiler
Leadership Transparency: 4 Ways to Build It
Leadership transparency can build or break trust. Without trust, leadership suffers.
Charles Stone
9 Mistakes Leaders Make
I know no leader who says up front, “It’s likely I’ll commit the same sins I see leaders in the Scripture commit.” I do know several leaders, however, who would say, “I never thought it would happen to me – but it did.”
Chuck Lawless
3 Steps to Bring Servant Leadership Into Your Home
We must apply servant leadership not only at work, but – equally ‒ inside of our own homes. We must make that dual investment. You can become more intentional about leading Jesus’ way within your own family. And you can have fun doing it!
Mark Deterding
Competencies Aren’t Just Knowledge, They Are the Ability to Use It Well
It is absolutely necessary that a leader have strong competencies.
Malcolm Webber
13 Questions to Discover Your Management Blind Spots
Every leader has a blind spot or two, or more. God is aware of our blind spots. He knows our weaknesses and vulnerabilities far more deeply than we do. This process cannot be achieved apart from the assistance of trusted friends and mentors who love us and love God.
Ralph Mayhew
20 Lessons I Wish They’d Taught Me in Seminary
Even when my ministry position allows me to have the last word, it doesn’t have to be mine. I can have a vision for future ministry without denigrating past ministry. If I hoard leadership to receive all the credit when something works, I will also receive all the credit when something doesn’t. Progress at the […]
David Manner
Great Leaders Are Great Observers
This is Part 1 in a series on Listening Over my life, I’ve been fortunate to work with many leaders who are older and wiser. Sometimes when people have that much experience, they’re tempted to be “advice dispensers” – to always need to educate, direct, and caution everyone around them. But many of the leaders I’ve […]
Adrian Pei
Are You a Good Listener?
Few things are as spiritually and emotionally comforting as spending time with a good listener. Sadly, I can count on one hand those in my life who qualify as good listeners. They’re few and far between – diamonds in the rough to be cherished when discovered. Thankfully, there is no natural talent needed to be […]
Stephen Vaughn
The Rules of Innovation
One of the best ways to learn as a church leader is to get outside of the “church-world” and learn from other industries.
Paul Alexander
Follow to Lead
We know how important leadership is. Leaders provide role models and establish the level of trust. We have rightly focused on leader development. But leadership is not a person; it’s a relationship between people. If we only focus on the leader, we are in danger of under-estimating the importance of being a good follower. We […]
Hiwot Alemayehu
The Leader’s Foundation: What Do You Bring That Is Uniquely You?
Leaders sometimes do not take the time to reflect on the concepts that make them unique and uniquely fitted to their own leadership role. Concepts such as: Who are you in Christ? How has God designed you? How do you leverage your personality? What should you focus on being and doing at a given stage […]
Tom Horn
The Perfect Facilitator
Why do some resist the facilitation process? Why are some able to trust facilitators to have the best interests of the organization as well as the organization’s members at heart, while others cannot trust right away? Claes shares some excellent facilitator characteristics.
Claes Johan Alexandersson
3 Coordination Killers that Can Kill Your Leadership
A lack of coordination can destroy a team’s effectiveness. A lack of coordination across multiple areas can greatly harm a leader’s credibility.
Eric Geiger
Dave Odom 9 Things Pastors Can Learn From Missionaries
Pastors may already be doing these things, but here are some things missionaries can remind us.
Chuck Lawless
Leaders Rarely Listen Well! Here’s How to Fix That
A leader’s ultimate success depends directly upon his effectiveness as a listener.
Malcolm Webber
Fine Lines – Leading with Balance
Most people have never walked a tightrope, but anyone who has watched someone do it knows balance is the ultimate key to staying upright. The same holds true for leadership. Balance is the key, and Rick addresses several significant characteristics of leadership that can be perverted from good to bad. He shows two sides of the coin in [...]
Rick Weston
One Terrible Leadership Mistake We Make as Pastors (and Leaders)
There are many leadership mistakes we make as pastors. I’m certain I make one nearly every day. This post is only about one mistake. Only one, but one of the worst.
Ron Edmondson