Change in the church is challenging yet necessary. Effective leadership fosters trust, patience, and prayer to navigate transitions.
It's important to feel appreciated beyond a paycheck at work. Here's how leaders can show gratitude to motivate team members.
Leadership demands our time, energy, and often our financial resources. Hopefully, the projects and people we invest ourselves in are worthwhile and fulfilling.
Glitter has a way of getting everywhere. This can be good or bad, depending on how you look at it.
As a leader, your true test comes in contentious moments when stakes are high and emotions run deep. Building a healthy culture during heated debates requires balancing passion with composure, anchoring arguments in facts over rhetoric, and focusing on issues rather than individuals.
Many of my clients, after a lot of hard work, finally experience the dramatic success they always dreamed of. Some accomplish more than they even hoped for. But instead of feeling excited, they feel overwhelmed.
There are more jobs available than qualified people to fill them. So what do we do now?
A key part of Christian leadership is managing our finances in a way that honors God. But God calls us to more than just sound money management, says Mike Hatch.
Many church leaders have a vision regarding the future impact of a church (e.g. innovation, unity, impact, reach, etc.). But too often, slowly at first almost unperceivably, these healthy churches began a slow but steady decline.
Learn more about adding value and promoting God's purposes through redemptive economics.
One of the biggest challenges you will face as a leader is figuring out how to treat people.
Every Christian leader faces the challenge of setting meaningful and achievable goals, both for their ministry and personal life.
Most leadership development programs aren't worth a bucket of warm spit. Actually, they might be worse than that.
I remember my surprise at the response to a book I wrote in 2001, Surprising Insights from the Unchurched. The fact that I remember something that took place almost a quarter of a century ago is a testament to its indelible mark on my memory.
Innovation and creativity are hallmarks of a great organization. They know what they do well, think about what to do next, and then innovate to get there.
It is tempting to ignore what lies beneath the ticker symbols on our brokerage statements. But we cannot take the shot that numbs us to the real pain and suffering on the other end of our investment activities.
Wise leaders understand that they are always on one stage or another.
Cooperation is important in any working relationship, but collaboration is even more valuable.
Find a simple, but powerful, framework you can use as a tool to assess how your current board is functioning and what it needs to focus on.
As leaders, we need to strive to be more like Josiah. But what could that look like?
