Posts by Carey Nieuwhof
5 Quick Things That Can Make a Long Term Difference During Your First Digital Easter
The first digital Easter is almost here. You’ve scrambled. Pivoted. Prepared. And while you probably don’t feel ready, you’re heading into what will likely be your biggest Easter ever for the simple reason that, as many church leaders are learning in real time, digital scales in a way that physical church simply doesn’t. The question…
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CNLP 332: Bobby Herrera on Crisis Leadership, What to Cut and What to Keep During the COVID Crisis, the Gift of Struggle and How to Plan for the New Normal
Bobby Herrera is the CEO of Populus Group, a company that supplies staff to numerous Fortune 100 companies. He talks about how struggle can be a gift, what he learned in the Army on crisis leadership, what to cut and what to keep when leading through the COVID-19 crisis, and how to get your team…
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5 Predictions About the Future Church While Everything’s Still Unknown
By now you’ve realized that the Coronavirus pandemic is not an interruption nearly as much as it’s a disruption. And as you move more deeply through this crisis, the question of what kind of world will emerge beyond the crisis is probably also starting to occupy your mind. Mine too. It’s pretty clear by now…
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The 3 Kinds of Leaders You See In A Crisis
So, you never signed up to lead through a crisis. And yet, here you are leading in the midst of one. What’s inevitable is that you and the people you lead are learning in real-time what your style of crisis leadership is. To be sure, crisis doesn’t create your leadership style, instead, it reveals and…
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Why Motivation Alone Won’t Get Your People (Or You) Through This Crisis
As a leader, you’re probably a pretty good motivator. That’s what most leaders do: motivate the people they lead. I have seen so many pastors and leaders motivating their teams and congregations online over the last few weeks as we all come to grips with this massive crisis. Here’s the problem: As you’ve likely already…
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CNLP 331: Gary Thomas on How to Walk Away from Toxic People and Why the Classic Christian Response of “Just Love Them More” Isn’t Actually that Christian
Best-selling author, Gary Thomas, says it took him years to figure out that some people are just plain toxic. They don’t respond to love, to correction or to direction. Gary shares how to walk away from toxic people at work, in your family and in life, and why the traditional Christian response of “just love…
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5 Ways to Get Better at Preaching/Speaking Directly Into a Camera
Amidst all the changes you’ve experienced in the last few weeks, like a ton of leaders and pastors, you are likely trying to master the skill of speaking or preaching straight into a camera. With no audience. And by now, you’ve realized just how challenging that can be. As difficult as speaking in front of a…
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CNLP 329: Joseph Sojourner on Navigating the Sexually Charged, Inappropriate Side of Social Media and Finding Your Voice When You’re on Someone Else’s Stage
In this episode, I talk with creative thinker, host and emcee, Joseph Sojourner about his personal journey: His diagnosis of narcolepsy, finding his own voice when he stepped onto some of the largest stages in the world, and how he navigates life as a single man, including how to handle scores of sexually charged DMs…
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CNLP 330: Sheryl Brady on How to Lead When You Don’t Have All the Answers, When Your Faith is in Crisis, and How to Decide What Doors to Walk Through and When to Say No
Sheryl Brady leads a mega church in Dallas and has a large international ministry, but never imagined herself as a leader. Sheryl talks about her unlikely rise into leadership in her early thirties and the struggles it caused her as a mom. She also talks about struggling with her own faith and having to lead…
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5 Ways The Current Crisis Is Accelerating the Arrival of the Future Church
Crisis is an accelerator. Nobody knows that better than you right now. And the disruption has hit church leaders especially hard. Crisis forces you to do things you previously thought about doing and put off. It moves you to do things you’d never thought you’d do (like move to video teaching in some cases).…
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