Leadership
CNLP 360: Bryan Miles on Why Your Team Won’t Want to Come Back to the Office, How to Lead Virtual and Hybrid Teams, and How to Motivate Your Staff
Bryan Miles has been leading virtual teams for over a decade. He shares the best practices for leading virtual teams, what the future of work might look like, how to motivate your staff, why no one should be allowed to mute audio or video during a Zoom meeting, and how he’s led his businesses through…
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CNLP 359: Levi Lusko on What the Future Church Might Look Like After COVID, Adrenaline Addiction and How to Pastor People Who Don’t Live Near You
In a very transparent and honest conversation, Fresh Life Church founder and bestselling author, Levi Lusko, comes back to the podcast and talks about dealing with adrenaline letdown after COVID hit, what the future church might look like, why he’s thinking his church will become a digital default church, and how digital can scale in…
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The NEW Characteristics of Churches That Will Be In Decline Five Years From Now
As a leader, you’ve likely looked back at a decision another church or organization made and thought to yourself, “how could they not have seen how bad that decision was…I mean, didn’t anybody realize where that would take them?” And of course, the answer is no…they didn’t see it. Which is the point of this…
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5 Reasons Your Team Isn’t Crushing Their Goals
If you’re like most leaders, you have moments where you get frustrated with your team because they miss goals. It’s never been more important for your team to crush their goals. It’s also never been more difficult. Church buildings are closed or at limited capacity, organizations are having to change strategy constantly, and you’re leading…
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CNLP 358: Sam Collier on Growing Up Black in America, What it Takes to Make it in a White World, and How Whites Can Use Their Influence to Help Bring About Racial Reconciliation
Author, podcaster and pastor Sam Collier, talks about what it was like growing up in the 90s and early 2000s in Black America, what it takes to make it in a white world, and how whites can use their influence to bring about racial reconciliation. Sam talks about how to navigate the backlash and the…
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5 Confessions of a Pastor About Online Church Attendance
So for months now, your church has been offering online services either for the first time or in a much more intentional way. Ever wonder what it’s like on the other side of the screen? I’ve been in church leadership for 25 years, and beyond that, until March 2020, attended church in person almost every…
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CNLP 357: JP Pokluda on the Future of Online Preaching, What Pastors Can Learn from YouTubers, and How to Influence the Next Generation
After leading The Porch—the largest young adult ministry in America—JP Pokluda became a senior pastor of a somewhat more traditional church. He talks about how his preaching changed when church went online, why he hired a YouTuber to create messages, what he thinks the future of preaching will be like, and how to influence the…
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10 Signs Your Organization’s Culture is Toxic
Ever wonder if your organization’s culture is toxic? Apparently, not enough leaders do. According to a Gallup survey, only 15% of employees globally are engaged at work. In America, 30% of employees are engaged, which at first sounds great. Except, that means that 70% of your workforce feels like their job is grinding the life…
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CNLP 356: Dharius Daniels on Leading with Relational Intelligence, Leadership Learned the Hard Way, and the Keys to Great Communication
Dharius Daniels is one of the best communicators in America today. In this interview, we talk about the key to excellent communication, learning leadership the hard way, and how to lead and live with greater relational intelligence. Welcome to Episode 356 of the podcast. Listen and access the show notes below or search for the Carey…
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Why Going Back To “Normal” Church Seems So Compelling And Can Be So Dangerous
So you would love for everything to go back to normal. Especially at church. I get it. There’s so much about the current disruption that’s unsettling, exhausting, frustrating and challenging that it would be great to throw open the doors of your church, not worry about a virus, and have everyone come back. Just like…
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