Structuring your organization to encourage servant leadership
I think the org chart should be turned on its head.
3 fool-proof ways to improve your culture
With intentional, consistent effort, you can cultivate in your team healthier habits and behaviors that, over time, catch on, spread, and lead to a thriving team dynamic.
How to make a church new-friendly
https://vimeo.com/537808599 Bob Whitesel shares how to focus on newness in implementing church vision and strategy. (Excerpted from ChurchLeadership.university.)
How to effectively cast vision
Most leaders understand the vital importance of casting a compelling vision. But is it possible that you have slipped from the casting of visions to the mere making of public relation announcements?
Three considerations for reopening churches
As you reflect on how things have changed, here are three things you may wish to consider as you plan for the reopening of your church.
A God-sized remodel
Take a few moments to do a self-evaluation. Is God actively remodeling something in you? If not, is there something that you need to allow him access to?
Biblical lessons for growing as a leader
Even if the only person you lead is yourself, you can work on rooting out resentment, you can choose not to complain, and you can choose loyalty over jealousy every time.
5 steps to launching a worship service reaching a new demographic
I was asked how to create a start-up plan for a new service that would reach a different culture than the church typically reaches. Here are my recommendations.
Should Christian investors risk lower returns to invest biblically?
As the biblically responsible investing (BRI) movement continues to take Wall Street by storm, the question of performance routinely surfaces.
13 great questions leaders ask other leaders
When you connect with other leaders, what do you ask them? Here are questions to get a conversation going.
Marathons, milestones, and musings
There are many analogies for life. Running a race is one of the best. In races, how you start is important, but how you finish is crucial.
10 realities for regathering churches
Though we don't have a precise picture of what churches will look like two years from now, we are at least getting some early indicators as the congregations regather.
Implementing culture change
Cultural change must be cultivated over time and on purpose. Here are five steps you can take to make this happen in your business or church.
How to avoid the common decision disaster that trips up leaders
At the end of the day, leadership is all about making decisions. But before you can make the call you need clarity on whose call it is to make.
Your calling doesn’t expire when you retire
Have you ever wondered if the "American Dream" version of retirement (retirement = pleasure) is healthy? Is it what is best for the Body of Christ?
It’s never too late for a miracle
Over the past year, you've likely needed to help many people in your community find hope. After a year of helping other people find hope in one of the most difficult seasons any of us have experienced, you may find yourself in need of hope.
Do staff performance reviews help or hinder?
As a senior pastor I've performed annual staff performance reviews for years thinking that I was helping those leaders improve their performance. But recent neuroscience has shown that negative feedback (including such feedback given in evaluations) may actually hurt the self-esteem of those we evaluate. If staff evaluations potentially hurt the cause rather than help, should we eliminate the evaluations or make some other changes? In this post I answer that question. The researchers in one study performed a simple experiment on college students. The students first performed a mock interview. Afterwards as they lay in an MRI, they received [...]
Strengthen your meeting agendas!
How many meeting agendas have you read where the leader listed topics but gave you no clue as to what outcome he or she wanted?
4 ways to shift your leadership from control freak to growth freak
Effective leaders know that to maximize growth, they must be willing to give up a measure of control.
How to pull out of a leadership lull
The next time you face a leadership lull, try one or two of these simple steps and see what happens.
