Personal Growth
5 Strategic Outsider Relationships to Fuel Your Leadership
This is a guest blog post written by Rich Birch. Rich the founder of Unseminary and is a member of my new Speaking Team. You can book Rich to consult with your team or speak at your next event here. By Rich Birch…
12 Secrets Most Leaders Won’t Tell You
Leadership is a journey…a journey that’s probably different than you thought it would be before you stepped into leadership. When I was young, I always thought top leaders had it all figured out. That the uncertainty would one day disappear…
5 Things About Leadership My 25-Year-Old Self Never Would Have Believed
Oh to know then what you know now. It never works that way, though, does it? A few months ago, I celebrated a birthday. It was a good one. I spent much of the day being grateful, but it also…
Has Your Leadership Peaked? The Theory of the 10 Year Run.
The last thing you want as a leader is to have your best days behind you. But it happens all the time, long before a leader steps out of leadership. The questions are how does it happen…and, more importantly, what…
So Many Church Leaders Struggle With Their Faith. Here’s Where It Starts.
There’s a secret many leaders won’t readily tell you. One of the most difficult aspects of Christian leadership is keeping your relationship with God fresh and alive. I suppose that’s one of the reasons so many pastors burn out (I…
7 Things Leaders Should Stop Saying to Themselves (and Their Teams)
Nobody sets out to be a bad leader. You didn’t. I didn’t. Yet according to a Gallup study, only 18% of managers have a ‘high degree of talent’ in leading people, which includes the ability to motivate and manage the…
Thoughts Megachurch Pastors Falling
So this isn’t an easy post to write, nor a glib one. I’m not even sure what I’m about to write is accurate. But once again last week, we heard of yet another mega-church pastor who isn’t in leadership anymore,…
5 Ways to Survive the Mental Game of Leadership
One of the problems I struggled with for years in leadership was taking every leadership triumph or set back so personally. I let the dynamics of leadership go to my head and heart too often. My spirits soared when things…
3 Reasons Winning At Work Is Easier Than Winning At Home
How’s it going at home…really? Here’s what I’ve come to believe. Ultimately, everything rides on how you lead at home. The stakes are high. Lead well at home, and you will inevitably become a better leader in your ministry or…
5 Keys to Reducing Stress, Anxiety, and Overwhelm in Leadership (And Life)
When someone asks you how you’re doing, how do you answer? Most of the leaders I talk to these days answer with two variations: “Stressed” or “busy.” Dig a little deeper, and it’s easy to see that at a deep…
7 Reasons Your New Year’s Resolutions Go Up In Flames (And How to Change That)
So, you’re prepping your list of New Year’s resolutions, but you’re already suspecting they’ll go up in flames within a few weeks into the new year. If you know the feeling, you’re not alone. Over 80% (some studies say up…
4 Ways to Optimize The Enneagram & Other Personality Assessments and Fuel Your Mission
So by now many of you know your Enneagram number…but the bigger question is what do you do with it? Especially what do you do with it as a leader? A few days ago I outlined 5 surprising truths about…