LEADERSHIP BLOG
I love assessments and use them regularly in coaching and facilitating trainings. They can be powerful tools to create awareness, offer tangible next steps to accelerate leadership and inspire people to work better together.
However, they are just tools! Tools with the potential to create...
Performance Reviews…should we or shouldn’t we? That is the question. Pastors, Executive Directors, and leaders in Christian ministry are split on the issue. Some look for a more biblical approach. Others adapt what works for other organizations to their ministry context. For others...
Oh, how we like to avoid this topic. Especially in churches and faith-based organizations where we would like to believe conflict doesn’t happen. However, people are people everywhere. Feelings get hurt. People say things they don’t mean. Expectations are left unmet. Miscommunication...
Did you know that of all the tough conversations you will have as a ministry leader, giving and receiving feedback is reported as the MOST DIFFICULT?!
It is a complicated process and we can all benefit from learning the skills to deliver feedback well. But, before we go there, let’s explore...
In the last episode we talked about how to uncover the strengths of your team even in the middle of chaos. Not the individual team member strengths – but what collectively as a group emerges when you work together that makes the team better together. Let’s take the question deeper:
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Confused about the next steps for your ministry? Spring is the season for many ministry leaders to put on their future-thinking hat and plan for the coming program year. Others are facing choices on some big opportunities – possibilities that will grow their ministry; expand impact. They...
“How do we figure out what our strengths are in the middle of all the chaos that we are dealing with that tends us towards focusing on what’s wrong or what we need to fix?”
Let’s dive into a way for you to work with your team to change the narrative through a storytelling...
Is decision making causing you to circle the SAME mountains over and over again? Leading in ministry means we often make group decisions with teams, boards, volunteers, or members. These kinds of decision-making processes can be the toughest to manage with frequent opportunities to get stuck...
What makes someone a leader? It seems like some people are thrown into leadership and others strive for it?
You can hear both parts of the question that are really linked together. One, what is a leader? And the other is how does one become a leader?
Last episode we walked through the...
We live in a world that pops from decision to decision. Did you know human beings make about 35,000 decisions in a day? How is it possible to be thoughtful on every decision? It is not. How do we know which ones matter most? By following the clues.
The thoughts and emotions inside of us are clues...
Are leaders born or made? It’s human nature to sort things by comparing this or that. However, this kind of sorting has significant limitations. In spite of that, this exercise of sorting can help us achieve a deeper understanding of a thing or get clearer on our criteria for a decision....
People come to you with problems and expect you to have answers -- and sometimes you don’t. But even when you do – should you offer the solution?
For quick decisions that have low impact, that’s usually the right move. When the solutions are not clear and the impact...
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