Posts by Carey Nieuwhof
CNLP 400: Harvard’s John Kotter on How to Effectively Deal with Rapid Change, Handle Your Critics and Opponents and Lead Effective Change
Dr. John Kotter is widely regarded as the world’s leading expert on change. A faculty member at Harvard Business School and graduate of MIT, his books on change have sold millions of copies and his theory on change has been embraced by some of the most successful companies in the world. In this interview, John…
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CNLP 399: Mark Clark on How to Preach to an Online Audience, Growing a Church During a Pandemic, and Why the Next Generation Wants the Real Jesus
Mark Clark’s church was growing online before COVID but during the pandemic, it’s grown even more. He explains how he’s switched his communication style, how to speak to an online audience and what preaching might be like after everything reopens. He also talks about how to connect with the people you’re reaching, and why the…
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CNLP 398: Christy Nockels on the Future of Live Events, Leading Worship and Burning Out and Working with Your Spouse
Christy Nockels has been singing in front of tens of thousands of people since she was 19. She shares the best and hardest parts of life on the road, how she dealt with a life-altering bout of burnout, how to work with your spouse and what she thinks the future of live events and the…
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Exactly What NOT to Say When You’re Leading People Through Change
So you’re leading through change. Who isn’t these days? Change is more important than ever because the world is changing faster than ever. Here’s the challenge. Most leaders fear change not because they’re afraid of change, but because they’re afraid it’s going to backfire. The truth about change is that it’s more mysterious than it needs…
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CNLP 397: Craig Groeschel on the Future of Church Attendance, How to Lead Well When Everyone Has Different Opinions, and on Winning the War in Your Mind
Craig Groeschel returns to talk about what he’s learned in the last year about church attendance, how to lead your team well when everyone has strong (and divergent) opinions, why he’s gone 100% in on digital church and 100% in on physical church, and how he’s winning the war in his mind. Welcome to Episode…
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CNLP 396: David Salyers on How Chick-fil-A Grew During a Pandemic, How to Add Value That 10x Results and Why Sales are as Controllable as Costs
David Salyers started the marketing department at Chick-fil-A when he was 21-years-old. He explains how he discovered that sales were as controllable as costs, how Chick-fil-A adds value to customers and suppliers, how to add value that produces 10x results, and how to create a job you don’t want to retire from. Welcome to Episode…
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5 Post-Pandemic Church Growth Accelerators
What will drive future church growth in the post-pandemic era? It’s an important question to ask, because for most church leaders the pandemic has been a question of adaptation and survival, both personal and organizational. The pandemic has been both discouraging and frustration for many church leaders. Not only are the return-to-church numbers remarkably low, but…
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4 Types Of Thinking That Will Sabotage Your Leadership
Chances are a big chunk of what you’re going to do today in leadership is think. Add a crisis or instability into the mix, and your thinking can easily get tripped up into some well worn but dangerous directions. After all, thinking is a big slice of what any leader is paid to do. You…
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CNLP 395: Seth Godin Shares His Secrets Behind Creative Work, Top Tips for Communicators and How He Learned to Think the Way He Thinks
Legendary marketing expert Seth Godin explains how he learned to think the way he thinks, shares top tips for communicators (and why peeves make bad pets), and why he continues to travel to Algonquin Park in Canada every year to teach kids how to paddle a canoe solo. Welcome to Episode 395 of the podcast. Listen…
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A Surprisingly Accurate Way to See If Your Church or Organization Will Flounder After the Pandemic
So, any idea whether your church or business will grow after the pandemic? Will things spring back to pre-COVID levels? Or will you struggle for years to come? With so much still up in the air, you might think that question is unanswerable. Well, yes and no. To be fair, nobody knows exactly how it…
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