Team Development
CNLP 332: Bobby Herrera on Crisis Leadership, What to Cut and What to Keep During the COVID Crisis, the Gift of Struggle and How to Plan for the New Normal
Bobby Herrera is the CEO of Populus Group, a company that supplies staff to numerous Fortune 100 companies. He talks about how struggle can be a gift, what he learned in the Army on crisis leadership, what to cut and what to keep when leading through the COVID-19 crisis, and how to get your team…
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5 Predictions About the Future Church While Everything’s Still Unknown
By now you’ve realized that the Coronavirus pandemic is not an interruption nearly as much as it’s a disruption. And as you move more deeply through this crisis, the question of what kind of world will emerge beyond the crisis is probably also starting to occupy your mind. Mine too. It’s pretty clear by now…
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CNLP 331: Gary Thomas on How to Walk Away from Toxic People and Why the Classic Christian Response of “Just Love Them More” Isn’t Actually that Christian
Best-selling author, Gary Thomas, says it took him years to figure out that some people are just plain toxic. They don’t respond to love, to correction or to direction. Gary shares how to walk away from toxic people at work, in your family and in life, and why the traditional Christian response of “just love…
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5 Ways The Current Crisis Is Accelerating the Arrival of the Future Church
Crisis is an accelerator. Nobody knows that better than you right now. And the disruption has hit church leaders especially hard. Crisis forces you to do things you previously thought about doing and put off. It moves you to do things you’d never thought you’d do (like move to video teaching in some cases).…
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My Top 7 Rules For Leading A Digital Team
And all of a sudden, you’re leading a digital team. For most leaders, that’s a massive change…a change no one prepared them for. In our new era of border closures, social distancing, self-isolation, quarantine, pandemics and lockdowns, how do you lead a team you can’t see or talk to in person? That’s a question thousands…
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How to Lead Through Rapid, Unexpected Change (Responding to COVID-19)
No surprise here, but you are leading through unprecedented global change. Just stop for a minute. Re-read that first line. Unprecedented global change. If it feels challenging, it’s only because it is challenging. The question becomes how do you do it? How do you lead through change when you’ve never been down this road before,…
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CNLP 326: Adam Duckworth on Disrupting the Travel Industry, How to Motivate Your Team, and How to Create an Optimal Workplace Culture
In 2012, Adam Duckworth was a part-time travel agent who decided to strike out on his own. Within a few years, Travelmation, his new company, absorbed the company he used to work for. Today, Travelmation is one of the largest and fastest-growing travel agencies in America. Along the way, he ended up disrupting the travel…
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5 Keys to Attracting Leaders Who Are Better Than You Are
So you probably wish you had some better leaders on your team. Want to know what the very best leaders do? They figure out how to construct a team with leaders who are not just better leaders, they assemble a team with leaders who are better than they are. That’s a big deal. If you truly…
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CNLP 325: Susan Steinbrecher on How to Lead Change, Deal with Conflict at Work and Increase Team Engagement
Leadership isn’t getting any easier. Leadership consultant, Susan Steinbrecher, whose insights have been featured in the New York Times, Inc., and Fast Company among others, shares the keys to leading change at work, how to get team buy-in and how to increase employee engagement. In addition, in an environment where people spend 25-40% of their…
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3 Spiritual Phrases Christian Leaders Should Stop Saying
I often hear from people who say “We don’t any need more ideas/strategies/conferences/skills…all we need to do is ________,” and then they fill in the blank with something that sounds spiritual. Maybe you have people like that at your church, or someone like that on your team. It’s amazing how common this perspective is. You…
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