Sometimes progress in life can be tough to measure. You might feel stuck right now. Or just the opposite—you might feel like you’re making incredible progress. But are you? How would you know? Of all the areas in which I want to…
So you were in love. And then life and leadership happened, jeopardizing, and sometimes even killing, almost everything you once valued in each other. Justin and Trisha Davis honestly and candidly share how their marriage fell apart, and—more important—how God rebuilt…
Change is an issue you actually face daily. I don’t mean to imply that you’re actually changing everyday, I just mean you’re facing change. You’re either leading change resisting change avoiding change fearing change mishandling change (don’t like this one either,…
Momentum is such a difficult thing to gain and such an easy thing to lose. What happens if you don’t have it? Can you regain it? And can you regain it quickly? Brian Dodd explains the 10 steps he used…
Tired of hearing bad news all the time? Even in growing and ‘successful’ organizations, leaders receive a disproportionate share of bad news. Why is that? As I tell my staff team all the time, we get paid to solve the problems…
Feel like nobody owns the mission like you do? What if you could change that? Frank Bealer from Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina shares how they have motivated thousands of volunteers to own the mission as much as staff…
So are the Pharisees running your church? Interesting question. How would you know? And perhaps, more appropriately, how would you know if that was you? You could argue that the since the religious leaders nailed Jesus to the cross, there’s no…
If you’ve ever spoken to an audience, tried to motivate a team, or if you prepared messages almost every week like many of us do, you’ve probably wondered what makes for a great talk. In fact, you’ve probably asked questions…
Why on earth would you think about succession, especially if you’re a young leader? Well, one of the hallmarks of great leadership is replacing yourself. Second, there is no success without a succession plan for any leadership role. William Vandenbloemen…
Very few leaders go into church leadership as pastors, staff, board members or volunteers hoping to be ineffective. And yet so many churches and church leaders end up that way—ineffective. You might be stuck in a church like that right…
So you probably want people to like you. Who doesn’t? Often when people say they don’t care whether people like them, it’s because they used to care whether people like them, but they got burned and as a result have become a bit…
If you struggle with time management, you don’t want to miss today’s guest post by Tim Stevens, a team leader with the Vanderbloemen Search Group, an executive search firm that helps churches and ministries find great leaders. Previously, Tim was…