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CNLP 265: Les McKeown on the Keys to Scaling Your Church Or Business, Why Growth Doesn’t Necessarily Mean You’re Ready to Scale, and How Scaling Actually Reduces Stress on You and Your Team
Les McKeown is back on the podcast, this time talking about the difference between growing organizations and organizations that are ready for scale. The two often get confused, and just because you’re growing doesn’t mean you’re ready to scale. Les shares the keys to scale, which, coincidentally, also reduce the stress the senior leader and…
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3 Ways Attractional Church Needs to Change To Reach the Next Generation
In an era in which everything is changing so fast, it can be really difficult to discern what’s next. That’s doubly true in church world. While the mission stays the same, the expression or model keeps changing. The dominant model for growing churches over the last two decades is what many people call attractional church.…
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CNLP 264: Sean Cannell Shares YouTube Secrets, Why The Future Online is Video, and How to Get Started on YouTube (Even From Scratch)
Sean Cannell started at almost nothing on YouTube a few years ago. Today his channel has over 750,000 subscribers and his videos have been viewed over 40 million times. Sean shares his YouTube secrets, talks about how to get started on YouTube even if you don’t have money or staff, and why the future online…
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10 Things That Ain’t Church (Some Thoughts On Irregular and Declining Church Attendance)
It’s never been easier to avoid church, skip church or exit church than it is today. And it has a lot of church leaders and Christians scrambling to figure out what’s happening, why it’s happening and what it all means. Those are great questions. On the positive side, a lot of the social stigma associated…
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CNLP 263: Horst Schulze with Lessons From the Ritz-Carlton on Coaching the Best From a Team When You Can’t Pay Top Wages, What Guests Really Want, How to Satisfy a Customer and What To Do With Customer Complaints
At age 14, Horst Schulze left home to start in the hotel industry in Germany. What he learned there became the foundation for introducing true luxury to America when he founded the Ritz-Carlton hotel chain. In this wide-ranging and candid interview, Horst shares the strategies and secrets that made the Ritz-Carlton the premiere hotel chain…
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Why Do We Hate Each Other So Much? (5 Reasons Anger Is the New Epidemic)
So much is changing so quickly in our culture. One of the things that is changing quickly is how deeply we seem to hate each other. I wish I could say Christians were exempt from this trend. We’re not. In fact, there are a good number of Christians who are fuelling it. A few years…
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CNLP 262: Nona Jones on What Most Organizations are Missing When It Comes to Facebook and Social Media Engagement and How to Use Facebook for Social Ministry, Not Just Social Media
Facebook’s Nona Jones shares about what most leaders are missing when it comes to getting people to engage on social media. Nona is also pioneering a way for churches to go beyond social media and dive deeper into social ministry. Plus she shares a host of tips and insights on best and worst practices on…
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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 once I had more life and leadership under my belt. But as you eventually learn,…
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CNLP 261: Michael Hyatt On How To Focus in a Distracted World, How to Get More Done in Far Fewer Hours, and Why Succession Matters
Michael Hyatt is one of the top influencers in the leadership space today. His books consistently reach the New York Times best sellers list and his company helps millions of leaders a year become better. In this interview, Michael explains how to focus with far greater effectiveness in a world filled with distraction, how to…
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4 Keys To Creating a Healthy Culture That Naturally Resists Toxic People
Guess what’s impacting your leadership more thank you think? Culture. Specifically, the culture you’re creating as a leader. Often I hear leaders complain about the toxic people they have in their organization (staff, customers, volunteers, attendees). To be sure, that happens. But if you always have toxic people in your culture, or you have a…
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