Leadership
7 Things The Smartest Leaders Always Make Time For
It’s difficult to find the time to do everything on your list at work, let alone in life. And if you really drill down on it, there are at least 7 things in leadership most leaders feel there will never…
6 Characteristics of An Irrelevant Leader
So how relevant are you as a leader? Any idea how you’d answer that accurately? You can debate how important relevance is all day long (and many do), but the truth is irrelevant leaders eventually make less impact on the…
Why Pessimists (and Realists) Are Hard to Follow as Leaders
So…if you had to describe yourself, would you say you’re an optimist, a pessimist, or as pessimists like to say in social settings to be polite, a realist? For the record…my current theory is that realists are pessimists who don’t…
The Single Best Way To Fully Motivate Your Team
See if you recognize this. There are some kinds of leaders (often in churches and not-for-profits) who are wonderful with people, but whose organizations don’t produce great results. Often there’s little accountability, a general drift, poor metrics and just a…
3 People Issues That Get Church Staff Teams Stuck
Today’s post is written by Tony Morgan, Founder of The UnStuck Group. Here’s a church growth lid I don’t hear people talking about very often—your org chart. Yep, the way your church is structured can actually cap your growth. It very…
Young Leaders: Who Will Replace Eugene Peterson and Other Giants We’ve Lost?
Eugene Peterson died in 2018. Like you and so many others, I felt the loss quite deeply. In the last few years, not only have we lost Eugene Peterson, but also Billy Graham and Dallas Willard among others. When a…
7 Simple Practices for Building Trust in Your Team
Guest post by Heather Zempel, Author of Big Change, Small Groups Heather Zempel is the Discipleship Pastor and Campus Ministries Director at National Community Church in Washington, DC. She is the author of several books, including Big Change, Small Groups.…
The #1 Reason The Best Leaders Get Things Done (When Others Don’t)
You probably have something exciting that you’ve been thinking about doing for a long time. A change you want to make in your church or organization. Or a personal side project or initiative you want to launch. No wonder…every leader…
6 Signs You’ve Grown Cynical As a Leader (And How to Reverse It)
Find yourself becoming a little more cynical every year as a leader? Few of us decide we’re going to be cynical…we just kind of end up there. How does that happen? How does a heart grow hard…how do you end up…
How Ignorance Works FOR You AND Against You As A Young Leader
Is ignorance ever a good thing in leadership? Strangely, sometimes it’s amazing. And other times it’s deadly. All of this probably seems a little weird, because you were told that ignorance is always a bad thing. So you’ve studied hard,…
Why Burning Out Doesn’t Have to Be Final Or Fatal: 10 Top Insights
Burnout is almost an epidemic among leaders today, and burning out is increasingly common among people who don’t even consider themselves leaders. It’s no longer just reserved for over-40 leaders either. Even young leaders are burning out. No longer is…
Leadership And Suicide: When Ending It Seems Like the Only Way Out
It’s so hard to write a post like this. Hard because it’s something that has impacted so many people and it’s so close to so many of our hearts. As many of you have likely heard, last week Andrew Stoecklein,…