How many times have you given in to guilt? How often have you wanted to say no but ended up saying yes?
Profitability, operations performance, quality output, schedule fidelity and employee morale were all well below what a high-performing organization would be delivering. Our problems were not uncommon, yet our stakes were higher than most.
Check your perspective and learn from this leadership fable, Through Colored Glasses, by Tom Harper, to become a more effective leader.
By choosing to model joy, I hope my colleagues can see ‘work’ and ‘vocation’ as synonyms for joy.
I would love to tell you I have everything under my control, but every day I am presented with a situation that is unexpected.
How's your visionary leadership? It's relatively easy to craft an inspiring statement that describes where we're going; it's more difficult to plan how to get there.
While I am not that far removed from the business world to be unaware of the term, “coaching,” I have not purposefully participated in the process. At least, I didn’t think so until I read the book!
Sometimes vision is blurred because it just hasn’t been clarified yet. Discover if these substitutes are hindering your visionary leadership.
A review of Through Colored Glasses: How Great Leaders Reveal Reality—A Biblical Leadership Fable and interview with the author, Tom Harper, about how you can become a better leader.
If you are a lead pastor, then you need to use the pulpit to strategically support your ministry leadership.
If you use the keys to your community, it will save you years of rapping your knuckles on doors to no avail. It will allow access for the gospel when other attempts fail.
Discover more about Jesus' final prayers in Greg Holder's book, The Genius of One: God’s Answer for Our Fractured World.
The lessons in leading a team are never-ending. However, here are a few tips for engaging this important group dynamic.
Just about everyone knows that vision is important. Should a church leadership team expect God to convey the same vision to each of them, simultaneously?
Here are seven simple strategies that may enhance any leader’s health, fitness and longevity.
There’s a third-person version of ourselves. We don’t know them very well. In fact, others know this leader better than we do.
Pastors often lack vision for making disciples and disciple-makers—and then, of course, they fail to pass this vision along to their people.
If the point of visionary leadership is to take our team toward the new and the better, will we ever get there by trying to smooth over the differences, or even by denying them?
Even though this new year is quickly slipping into history, it is not too late to see a new opportunity to embrace new attitudes and renewed efforts in church leadership.
This rich wisdom must shape our biblical leadership as we continue in our roles and responsibilities. Ponder the following seven questions and discover the changes God may be asking you to make.
