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Without a Strategy for Change, You’re Sunk
Change takes extensive prayer, planning, and care. John Kotter’s 8-stage model provides a framework for leading it.
Malcolm Webber
Change Can Be Traumatic! Your Followers Need Your Care.
People often react to change in detrimental ways. Here’s how you can encourage your followers in the midst of change.
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 2 Non-Negotiables of Legitimate Vision
A quality leader facilitates moving others from the place they are now to a better situation. But what do leaders actually do to cause this to happen? First let’s look at how leadership revolves around vision. It has three parts: The leader establishes the vision. He aligns the people in that direction. He motivates and […]
Malcolm Webber
You’re Growing Oaks, Not Cabbages: Building Leaders Takes Time
Building leaders is not a quick process, by any means. We need to be prepared for the amount of time it takes transformation to occur.
Malcolm Webber
Seven Essential Priorities for Your Physical Health
As Christian leaders in God’s house, I hope these seven essential priorities help you to make the improvements that are within your power to make. God knows, we need healthier, stronger, leaner, more flexible leaders who can stay the course! You can absolutely improve your health!
Nick Franks
Three Keys to Avoiding the Curve that Kills Good Leadership (and Leaders)
You and I have a shape, a curve that defines how we live and lead. It is fashioned by a combination of our worldview, our faith, our self-image and our definition of success. Together these factors will bend us in one of two directions. Think of a lens. In high school science we learned that […]
Scott Rodin
5 Leadership Reflections from the Life of David
The best book from which to find leadership principles is the Bible. I love reading about King David. From his time in the wilderness and serving as king ‒ good and bad ‒ we learn a great deal about leadership and what is required to successfully lead.
Ron Edmondson
Choosing God’s Presence
I’m at a small conference of workers. The theological reflection the other day was Exodus 33. In this chapter, God begins by telling Moses: Then the LORD said to Moses, “Leave this place, you and the people you brought up out of Egypt, and go up to the land I promised on oath to Abraham, […]
Justin Long
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
Servant Leader vs. Steward Leader
The most commonly heard of the biblical models for Christian leadership is servant leadership. Christians commonly use this phrase, especially in relation to vocational ministry work. We are encouraged to be servants and serve others as Christ did.
Amanda Boardwine
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
4 Reasons Younger Women Need Older Women in Their Lives
Are you investing in the life of someone spiritually younger than you? Know that the young women in your church want, and need, you to be.
Melissa Meredith
Healthy Spirituality for Leaders and Followers
In this article, I will endeavor to establish a theological foundation for spiritual formation that transforms the character, and results in greater influence. To change the church culture for such results, leaders must seek personal as well as corporate spiritual growth that goes deep. The early American pilgrims knew that God needs our [...]
Michael Wilson
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