How to Cast Vision: Interview with Jenni Catron
As leaders, we are responsible for the vision of our organization. But how do we know what is a healthy or unhealthy vision? In this interview, Jenni answers that question and more.
Joshua Webber
Be one. Build many.
Joshua Webber
Learning About Organizational Development and Change
Change is so complex and depends on timing, who is involved, how the process is designed and how the spiritual aspect is integrated (at least with Christian institutions). The Space for Grace Learning Centre has many articles that provide useful tips on understanding Organizational Development change processes and how to manage or [...]
Doreen Kwarimpa-Atim
The Benefits of More Than One Staffer Attending Board Meetings
As a senior leader myself, I know I play a unique role in our organization, but I also know I’m not the end-all. In fact, by God’s design, each of our giftings is accompanied by built-in limitations. We need each other, and we’re better together. Here’s why I think having appropriate staffers participate in board meetings is healthy for [...]
Lisa Hosler
A Difficult Word
While not difficult to understand, reconciliation can be a difficult word to put into practice. It can be very difficult to get two family members who are at odds to be reconciled. And it can sometimes seem very difficult for us (or for others we know) to be made right with God.
Alan Smith
Adam Ford Afraid to Speak Up
There are times in our lives when we are hesitant to say something out of fear. Not fear of being "shot," but fear of being "shot down," fear of being ridiculed, fear of being embarrassed. As a result, given the opportunity to take a stand for Christ, we choose silence instead. It seems "safe" considering the circumstances. May God help [...]
Alan Smith
The Church in China: Toward a New Narrative
China is experiencing the most massive urban migration in the history of the world. The relocation of nearly 300 million people from the countryside to the cities has helped raise millions out of poverty, contributed to the rise of a new middle class, and, along with the one-child policy, brought about irreversible change in the Chinese [...]
Brent Fulton
Confusing Times Call for Presence-Based Leadership
If even Jesus, the Son of God, could do "nothing of Himself, but only what He sees the Father do," how much more so do we need to depend on living in the Presence of God, sensing what He is doing in the situation and partnering with Him to carry it out. Yes, the Lord uses our talents, gifts, intellect and skills. But we can't trust those [...]
Patricia Tillman
Interview With Herminia Ibarra: Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader
Herminia Ibarra is one of the finest thought-leaders on leadership. Ibarra argues that you have to act your way into a new type of leadership thinking instead of thinking your way into it.
Paul Sohn
They Were Lost in God!
Are you lost in God? God is asking us, “Do you really, intentionally love Me?” If you are not doing this, you cannot teach your people to love God. It’s learned by examples, whether it's a leader in the Old Testament or us. Our kids and disciples know how to love God because they’ve seen it modeled before them.
Joe Handley
Broke or Broken?
The Bible tells us God sent Jesus to take all of humanity’s brokenness upon Himself; to bring healing to the broken-hearted; and to restore us into a right relationship with God. What a resource for a broken world. As children of God we are not broke, but broken people being healed by Jesus, and sent into the world following the example [...]
Niklas Eklov
The Palm Beach
The muffled rant out in the hall prompted the fading in of a closed-eyes smile across my travel-worn face. It wasn't the words of the outburst – garbled French curses for the sake of quiet – but the images from earlier that night that animated a mind's view of what I could not see presently. I will share with you what I saw that you may [...]
William Frisbie
The Christian Life All Boils Down To This One Question – Video
Sometimes there can be confusion about what the Christian life is and isn’t. But really it all boils down to this one question.
Halim Suh
Feedback and Power
Feedback is a tool of power, and it can create environments of freedom or oppression.
Adrian Pei
Feedback and Ethnicity
Is there an “Asian American” way to handle feedback? How does ethnicity impact feedback processes and growth?
Adrian Pei
Disagreement ≠ Defensiveness
Allow yourself to be influenced by others, but believe in what you stand for.
Adrian Pei
How to Receive Feedback Graciously
A recipe for how to make someone’s blood boil. And how to cool it down in 3 simple steps.
Adrian Pei
How Teamwork Led to one of the Greatest Achievements in Sports History
If you follow soccer at all you would have heard by now that Leicester City Football Club, a soccer club in England, has won the British Premier League, one of the most well-known soccer leagues in the world. If you don’t follow soccer, you might not understand the importance of this victory. Leicester City showed how teamwork can be [...]
Joshua Webber
How to Deliver Feedback Effectively
Breaking down effective feedback: 7 practical steps that can be executed in less than 1 minute.
Adrian Pei