Leaders

4 Strategies to Help Leaders Develop Critical Thinking Skills

Are you a critical thinker? Think about it. Leaders need to cultivate and practice critical thinking skills.

10 Ways to Respond to Gossip About Your Leaders

It’s out of style in today’s world, but in the value system of God, church leaders are to be held in high honor. First Thessalonians 5:13 says we should “Hold them in the highest regard in love, because of their work.”

Brian Thorstad

Stop Dieseling & Speak to The Heart

Adding more words to the mix rarely results in saying something meaningful. Take these four steps seriously if you want to stop dieseling and speak to the heart.

Dan Lovaglia

The Challenge of Incompetence

If you remain in a leadership position long enough you will have to deal with incompetence in someone at some point. Whether that means reassigning someone, redefining their role, or letting them go, as a leader the only option not available is to allow the mission of the organization to suffer.

Jess MacCallum

What Mac & Cheese Taught Me About the Needs of Others

A very successful businessman inadvertently taught me a lesson about paying attention to other people’s needs … with macaroni and cheese.

Charles Stone

How to Be Joyful in Your Leadership

As a biblical leader, I choose to model joy for the people I lead. By choosing to model joy, I hope my colleagues can see “work” and “vocation” as synonyms for joy.

James Bruyn

The One-Minute Prayer of a Steward Leader

Meaningful time with God can be found in the Sabbath moments that punctuate our day – if we are willing to look for them and treat them in that way. How do we best consecrate these islands of solace in our seas of tumult? I suggest we have ready a one-minute prayer.

Scott Rodin

Is Your Leadership More Than Words?

If you want to be the kind of leader whose organization is on the cutting edge, stop asking for someone to give you an answer you already know. Great leaders have the courage to act!

Mike Mowery

Characteristics of a Leader

The more you know about leadership, the more you practice it. The more you integrate it into your life, the faster and the farther you go.

John Ramstead

9 Traits of Excellent Church Leaders

If we strive to be excellent leaders, we must be intentional and passionate about serving Christ and His church ‒ moving forward, engaging culture. Leaders are born, but they can also be developed.

Matthew Fretwell

How to Get Through the Tough First Times In Leadership

People are so often thrust into roles where they’re leading people without being taught the skills or given the support to do it well. So many leadership programs are aimed at senior leaders rather than the first time or newish leader. Here are some things Suzi learned from her first time experiences.

Suzi McAlpine

Small May Be Big Enough

Never sell yourself short. In God’s economy the least becomes the greatest. Don’t fall into the trap of seeing worth only in the big. Small may be big enough.

Julie Sunne

How Devotionals Almost Broke Up My Marriage

Being a leader approved by God is different from being a leader put in a position by God. Sometimes, when God is training a spiritual leader, He will let us fall on our faces because we can see Him better from that position.

Jess MacCallum

The Church’s Dirty Little Secret

Immature believers abound, and that’s all right. Babies must complete all stages of development before they achieve maturity. But we should never put an infant in a place of leadership. Leaders must be adults in the faith if they are to be role models and examples to those coming after.

Joe McKeever

The Learning Organization

A river will curve with twists and turns in its path to the ocean seemingly without reason. Unlike a river, an organization should plan its curves and turns. Organizational theory tells you that the time for transition (or curving) is … always. Because if you wait until it starts to happen, you are too late. By the time you go through [...]

Peter Ochs