Leadership
Some Helpful Insights On How To Win The War In Your Mind (With Craig Groeschel)
Today’s post is an excerpt from Craig Groeschel’s new book Winning The War In Your Mind: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life. If you haven’t picked up a copy yet, I’d highly recommend that you do. There is a specific…
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…
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…
Need Encouragement? 6 Invisible Things Church Leaders are Doing Really Well Right Now
Feel like you need some encouragement? Doesn’t every leader right about now…? Most of what’s come at you in the last year has been discouraging…criticism from every side, events that are completely out of your control, operating in anything but…
7 Disruptive Leadership Trends That Will Rule 2021
Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any more turbulent or surprising, the opening moments of 2021 still have everyone trying to catch their breath. So what are the leadership trends you should be tracking in 2021? For years…
The Fine Line Between Oversharing and Undersharing as a Leader
This is a guest post written by Toni Nieuwhof. Toni and Carey Nieuwhof met in law school and have been married for three decades. Toni is the author of Before You Split: Find What You Really Want For The Future Of…
Something’s Got to Give: 5 Very Real Reasons Ministry is Such a Pressure Cooker These Days
Pastoral ministry has always been a pressure cooker. Add rapid change and constant uncertainty into the mix, and what was barely sustainable before has become almost untenable to thousands of leaders. On my leadership podcast, I interviewed Kayla Stoeklein whose…
How to Unite a Divided People: 5 Keys to Leading in an Angry Era
So you’re leading a more divided group of people than you ever imagined. And you’re leading them in a very angry era. Talk about complicated. People have always been somewhat divided. But it’s never been this divided. And people have rarely been this…
So You Want to Quit…
So you want to quit. I get it. This has been an excruciating crisis to live through and lead through. While 25% of all workers want to quit their jobs right now, it appears it may be even worst for…
5 Simple Questions About the Future Every Leader Should Be Asking Right Now
Knowing what you should do as a leader in normal times is hard enough. As you may have noticed, these aren’t normal times. Trying to figure out what to do amid a cascading series of global crises is so much…
Afraid of Disappointing People? 5 Ways People-Pleasing is Starting to Hurt You in this Crisis
So, you probably want people to like you and your leadership. Who doesn’t? If we’re honest with each other, most of us in leadership prefer to be be liked (rather than not liked). That’s natural, and it’s not entirely unhealthy.…
Is America Burning Out? (How to Minister to an Exhausted, Cynical Culture)
You know that people burn out. In fact, given the way you feel, you may have asked whether that’s what happening to you. But here’s a deeper question. Can a culture burn out? And if the answer is yes, any…