Over the past year, you've likely needed to help many people in your community find hope. After a year of helping other people find hope in one of the most difficult seasons any of us have experienced, you may find yourself in need of hope.
How many meeting agendas have you read where the leader listed topics but gave you no clue as to what outcome he or she wanted?
Effective leaders know that to maximize growth, they must be willing to give up a measure of control.
The next time you face a leadership lull, try one or two of these simple steps and see what happens.
Online communities often enhance offline friendships.
Rather than extravagant employee perks or outrageous office antics, the most common cultural blind spots are related to your everyday behaviors as a team.
Where is he leading you today?
Begin searching your life for the things you've let become normal that shouldn't be. I'm sure you'll find a whole host of them. I know I did!
If three or more of these are true of you, you need a new challenge.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports that America is going through its longest sustained decline in life expectancy in a century.
As a retired pastor, now looking for a church home, I have visited several churches and listened to preachers casting vision, reminding us of their mission, explaining their detailed strategy and describing the culture they wish to create.
Years ago a leadership mentor taught me a simple yet profoundly effective tool to keep an organization aligned with its plan. It's a matrix that looks at each opportunity or idea and asks two basic questions.
The best investments in business are the fields that yield abundant harvests into eternity.
The only place for you right now, as a field sergeant in the army of God, is on the battlefield.
It's easy to miss what's in front of us when we are hurried, stressed or thinking only of ourselves.
Questions can help leaders go further and do more. Yet, many leaders are unwilling to ask.
Has God equipped your church to minister to "people like us"?
Most leaders fear change not because they're afraid of change, but because they're afraid it's going to backfire. The truth about change is that it's more mysterious than it needs to be.
