How to develop an effective exit strategy for your business
The majority of business owners fail to sell due to lack of understanding buyers' needs and lacking a clear exit strategy.
CEO transition plan: proven steps to ensure smooth leadership change
A wise CEO transition requires more than a handoff—it demands humility, foresight, and a Spirit-led commitment to legacy, timing, and empowering the next leader.
Effective CEO succession planning: building a preliminary strategy
What would happen to your organization if your top leader had to step away tomorrow? Explore how smart succession planning—starting with a clear strategy and leadership pipeline—can secure your ministry or business for the long haul.
Assume someone is recruiting your best employees. What will you do?
The winning strategy is this: Be the best at attracting, building, and retaining your team. You can't play without a team.
8 reasons young leadership is essential to your organization now
Here’s why I think having a good representation of next-generation leaders in your organization is essential.
Here are 5 core needs to succeed
Here are five core needs that each of us have to thrive and fulfill in our work. And I’m going to give you some suggestions for how you can apply them to leadership.
The leadership qualities you want on your dream team
The starting place for building an effective “dream team” is in having a crystal clear picture of the qualities you want in the people.
Navigating supervisor and employee relationships
This article deals with the unique problems experienced by Christians when they supervise others or are employees.
How to prepare someone on your team for executive leadership
While it is possible to find qualified candidates, there are farther and fewer in between. In fact, I support developing a robust, assertive recruitment strategy. Don’t be shy about choosing it.
Are you helping employees climb the career ladder or find their “career compass?
What happens when there's someone we see that has a lot of potential, but they don't necessarily want to be manager or climb the career ladder? How can you best help them navigate their next steps?
The heartiest and best employment
It’s a pleasure to have a good employer. It’s a pleasure to have satisfying work. To make a heart commitment to work when conditions are good is fairly easy. On the other hand, it’s sad to see, or to be, people whose hearts aren’t in their work.
7 questions for healthy oversight
How can oversight be done as a healthy partnership? These seven questions can create a rich dialogue that moves well beyond a typical “performance review.”
How to spot insecurity in any leader (even yourself)
If a leader is wracked with insecurity, it won’t simply render them ineffective. It will actually undermine everything they have been attempting to build.While there may be no scientifically verifiable way to know for sure, these self-evaluation questions can give you a pretty good idea.
5 essential characteristics of a leader
Here are five characteristics in a leader everyone is looking for when they make a hire or recruit volunteers.
How to respond when you don’t like the way your supervisor leads
By casting bad bosses and unhealthy corporate cultures as the villains, many talking heads would have you believe that you are doing a heroic thing by disrespecting your employer before, during, and after your departure from the company. But this response is totally out of sync with Scripture.
The art of leaving a job
We can learn a lot from Moses in workplace leadership, such as leaving an organization. When we leave a job or a company, are we indifferent to the impact on the people and organization we're leaving? Are we focused on what we can do to facilitate the transition or on what the company or our coworkers did to us, or didn’t do for us?
27 questions every leader should ask before taking a new job
When I’ve considered a new ministry change, I’ve sought answers to key questions. And over the years I’ve compiled this list of 27 questions to ask a search committee and/or your future boss.
Leading the right people
An important principle of leading effectively in the 21st century is leading the right people.
Successfully onboarding new team members
Transitions can bring with them certain dynamics, some of which can be difficult to navigate.
10 reasons churches struggle to hire
The pandemic is not the reason pastor search committees are struggling.
