3 Ways to Develop Contextual Leadership
Leadership is contextual. You can learn a lot from renowned leaders inside and outside the church but not everything they teach will automatically translate to your context.
Joe Hoagland
Be one. Build many.
Joe Hoagland
Learning from Peers
We often learn more from peers than from any formal training processes.
Rick James
4 Ways to Become a More Grateful Leader
Ministry challenges can often rob our joy. I believe becoming more grateful can help … a lot. Consider these four ways to become a more grateful leader.
Charles Stone
Dennis Fletcher One Thing We Must Never Do in Ministry
We must put our eyes on Him and keep them there. But not on our ministry.
Joe McKeever
Don’t Listen to Me When You Shouldn’t
Every good leader knows he or she doesn’t know everything. But that’s not what leadership is about. Leadership is intentionally moving yourself and others toward a goal.
Jess MacCallum
7 Assumptions You May Be Guilty Of
As faithful stewards of all that has been entrusted to us by God, we owe it to those we lead to prove ourselves ‒ and them ‒ free of these assumptions.
Rob Streetman
5 Things Church Leaders Are Doing Right
Church leaders, who are leading right, know they can’t be two-faced. They know they have to live a consistent, Christ-centered life. Anything else wouldn’t suffice.
Joseph Lalonde
Is Your Leadership Relevant or Irrelevant?
If we as leaders are “full of dead men’s bones,” we have become irrelevant. Here are some keys to becoming irrelevant – and some productive alternatives.
Paul Greasley
Tim Walburg I’m Allowed to Change Slowly, but You Must Change Fast. Really Fast.
Yes, it’s hard to wait for others to change. But if God patiently waits for us to change, we can also wait for others.
Stephen Altrogge
What’s Your Pain Threshold?
It’s been said that “Pain is inevitable, but misery is optional.” We cannot stop what happens to us, but we can certainly stop what happens in us.
Stephen Mayers
Three Things I Realized About Change
Changes and decisions will always be a part of our lives – but with God leading the way, what else do we need? What are we afraid of? Truly, the Apostle Paul was perfectly right when he said, “If God is for us, who can be against us? No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Rom. 8:31, 37).
Joshua Benavides
5 Reasons We Struggle to Rest
We struggle to rest. Even on vacation, we can be restless. Why?
Eric Geiger
A Perspective on Bad Leadership
Why I’m most grateful for the worst examples of leadership.
Adrian Pei
You Control What Matters Most
People assume the surfer is in control, and he does control his body and the board, but clearly the ocean is in charge; the ocean can do what it wants with the surfer. The same is true in leadership. Most leaders live in a fascinating dilemma. Others see them as controlling everything, but they feel as though they are in control of [...]
Kevin Thompson
6 Ways to Lead Your Team Through Turbulent Times
How you handle hard times will set the tone for how your team handles those same hard times. If you’re 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 – and then they will quickly follow suit.
Suzi McAlpine
Change: The New Constant
As a child in Africa, it took two weeks for us to learn of the death of my own grandmother by way of a telegram relayed from continent to continent and handed off to a bicycle courier who made the day-long trip in hopes of a gratuity upon delivery. Things have changed.
David Goodman
Simple Kindness
Let’s spread more kindness this year, without expecting anything in return. This week let’s commit ourselves to a simple act of kindness each day at our workplace.
Elaine Vitikainen