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How to Deliver Feedback Effectively
Breaking down effective feedback: 7 practical steps that can be executed in less than 1 minute.
Adrian Pei
The Difference Between Flattery and Appreciation
Just add one word — “because” — to make your appreciation of others meaningful.
Adrian Pei
The Best Leadership Verse in the Bible?
The best worker in any enterprise is one whom God has called and His Spirit has sent. They are there, not for a paycheck (although that is often necessary) and not for recognition (although they would not mind a pat on the back occasionally), but because “the Lord sent me.”
Joe McKeever
Feedback: The First and Most Important Thing to Say
One simple thing you can say to eliminate 90% of problems when you’re delivering feedback.
Adrian Pei
How to Decide If and When to Give Feedback
Three crucial questions to ask ourselves before we start giving feedback.
Adrian Pei
How to Make Feedback Fun (Really!)
There are simple, practical things we can do to make feedback more helpful and enjoyable for us, and for other people.
Adrian Pei
Lancing a Boil
In Malawi we have a proverb that tells the story of a dog sitting on a warm verandah. He hears the sound of a lion roaring in the distance, but it is so comfortable in the sunshine…. So he stays put. He keeps hearing the roars get closer and closer, until it is too late to move.
Jonathan Mbuna
On Being Stabbed in the Back
If we want to live and lead like Jesus, we know this one thing about betrayal: it will show us more about ourselves than any other leadership experience we face.
Jess MacCallum
Soul Mates?
As J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote to his son, “No man, however truly he loved his betrothed and bride as a young man has lived faithful to her as a wife in mind and body without deliberate conscious exercise of the will, without self-denial.” So folks, let’s drop the whole “soul mate” talk, shall we? Marriage can be wonderfully satisfying, [...]
Eric Metaxas
The Meaning and Source of All Christian Leadership
What was God doing before the creation of the world? The answer to that question will define the nature of the Christian life!
Malcolm Webber
Living and Leading by Jesus’ Indwelling Life
Jesus said that our union with Him is to be the source of everything in our lives and ministries. We are to live by His indwelling life in the same way that He lived and ministered out of the indwelling life of His Father.
Malcolm Webber
Jesus’ Fellowship With His Father
Jesus lived in continuous fellowship with His Father, and through that fellowship He drew from, and lived by, His Father's life. Thus, Jesus' leadership came from His union with His Father. And, just as Jesus' continuous inward fellowship with His Father was the source of everything in His life and ministry, so our inward fellowship with [...]
Malcolm Webber
Humble Leadership + Outstanding Talent = Healthy Growth
What organization doesn’t want to grow? But let’s imagine one better: What if you could increase your organization’s performance and ministry impact in a way that matched and actually solidified your Christ-centered integrity? I want to let you in on a little secret of how one very humble ministry has done just this by increasing the [...]
Al Lopus
Christine Caine’s Message to Christian Leaders
God is able to do awesome and amazing things. Why can’t you and I as believers of Christ look at our vision with so much passion? We have the greatest story to tell because the story points to a greater story of God. We need to rise up because God is great and we need to share His message.
Paul Sohn
Building a Healthy Organization – Video
What does it mean to be healthy across an entire spiritual organization? And, how do you build such an organization? Dr. Malcolm Webber addresses these questions in his presentation at the 2015 Hope International Leadership Summit. The bottom line: Any organization is only as healthy as its people so we must nurture a culture that serves [...]
Malcolm Webber
The Essence of the Christian Life – Video
Jesus has given Himself to you, and He’s called you to know Him. In a manner of speaking, this is all He’s called you to do: to look at Him, to hear Him, to touch Him, to know Him. Everything else – every part of the Christian life and holiness and compassion for the world and vision and ministry work – everything else comes out of this. [...]
Malcolm Webber
Let’s Talk About Moralistic Therapeutic Deism
I did not grow up in a Christian family. My whole life changed when I as converted about 10 years ago. As I studied and learned more and more, many things surprised me, but perhaps nothing caught me more off-guard than a strange phenomenon I observed among "church folks." At the time I didn't know what to call it, but since then a couple [...]
Adam Ford
Thinking About an Affair? Count the Cost: 8 Reasons You Should Run, Not Walk, from Infidelity
Eight major reasons why every Christian – especially leaders – should avoid infidelity.
Michael Hyatt
Shutting Doors
It's true – "When one door closes another door opens." But as a backwards interpretation of the saying suggests, perhaps we should consider the things we need to set aside to create the space we need.
Corey Olynik