Leadership

Of all the changes you’re facing as a leader right now, how to hire for the future is emerging as a significant one. The Great Resignation is indeed happening, meaning you probably have vacancies…or soon will. So how do you find (and keep) a team that can do what you need them to do well? As…

If you’re a pastor or on church staff, have you thought about leaving ministry lately? I don’t mean just going to another church, but leaving entirely. As in embracing a new vocation…. If so, you’re not alone. All leaders have been in a pressure cooker unlike any in our lifetime. In my view, church leaders…

You hear it every day, and maybe you think it or say it. We’re at 50% of where we were in 2019. We haven’t seen the same level of ________ as we did before the pandemic.  Or, most depressingly… If we could only get back to where we were in 2019.  No judgment here. I…

How do you plan for a crisis? From one standpoint, the short answer is you can’t. The better answer, though,  is that you actually can prepare for a crisis. First up, here’s why it’s easy to fall for the lie that you can’t prepare for a crisis. Crises are inherently unpredictable, uncertain and often you…

How many productive hours a day do you have in you? It’s a more important question than you might think. When I was starting out in leadership, I might have answered that by saying eight, or ten. Or twelve. What about you? How many productive hours do you think you have in you? Like many…

If you took an honest look at the pace that you’re currently living at, could you do it forever? Would you want to?   For most people, the answer is no.  Fifteen years ago, I thought the answer to that question was yes. I thought I’d never burn out regardless of the pace at which I…

Maybe you’ve heard a few lies about success. Worse, maybe you believed a few. There’s a common thread…sometimes unspoken, sometimes articulated, that suggests that success always has to come at the expense of the deeper or more important things in life. Often, the narrative involves questioning the motives and tactics of anyone who’s ‘successful’—whatever that…

If you’re like most leaders, the last thing you want to do is burn out. Yet a growing number of leaders are finding themselves doing just that. It’s no longer even just a ‘hey I’m in a mid-life crisis so I’m burning out’ kind of thing. Stress and burnout run deep and they run young.…