Christian Leadership: I Don’t Think That Word Means What You Think It Means
Christian leadership is as transformational to us as it is to those we are called to lead.
Angela Herrington
Building Leaders
Articles in this category focus on practical issues of how we build healthy leaders and lessons learned
Angela Herrington
The Basics of Leader Selection
All selection involves risk and work, but creating a process that brings clarity, creates communication and makes honest assessments possible is fundamental to wise leader selection.
Jess MacCallum
Leadership in a Crisis: Defining Reality AND Giving Hope
Leaders must give hope for the future, mobilize people in a direction, and believe deep in the core of who they are that there are great opportunities on the horizon.
Eric Geiger
Lessons from the Radical Leadership of Jesus
Leading people in the name of Jesus is complex, demanding great wisdom and discernment. But for the last 18 months, I have been meditating on the leadership of Jesus in Matthew’s Gospel. It has shaken me.
Pete Scazzero
Jumpstart on Online Academic Programs?
God has wired us with intrinsic power to explore new avenues and to venture out, trusting Him who alone is omniscient and omnipresent. Perhaps we should reach out beyond the closed walls and the locked screens and start sharing our questions and hopes freely with those who journey along with us. With God we will make it through these [...]
Dr. Jessy Thomas
6 Ways Followers Influence Leaders
Followers possess extraordinary power. Here’s how they can use it.
Malcolm Webber
Leaders Are Built Through Fire
This was the kind of leadership Jesus taught and modeled to His disciples: a leadership born of brokenness, produced in pain, forged in the fire of suffering.
Malcolm Webber
A New Opportunity for Senior Leadership
A great alternative for older pastors is the ministry once known as “interim pastorate.” Whatever you call this position, the interim pastorate isn’t what it used to be. Increasing numbers of interim or transitional pastors are now deliberately using the “in between time” in churches as a great opportunity to bring about congregational [...]
Brian Thorstad
The Centrality of the Church in God’s Purpose
Jesus’ purpose is to build His Church. That must be our purpose: to work in the building of His Church.
Malcolm Webber
Let’s Not Complicate Leadership
Don’t start big. Start small. Concentrate on one bite of the elephant at a time.
Ron Edmondson
The Three Horizons
An organization has three primary stages of its life cycle, and leaders are responsible to focus on all of them.
Malcolm Webber
Adding Creativity to Your Work Culture
This is the kind of advice that sounds good on paper, but when the rubber meets the road, it can be scary. The only thing that’s scarier would be for a generation of high-potential leaders to walk away from an inflexible church.
Mike Bonem
A Healthy Leader Is Continually Growing
No leader will ever be perfect, but every leader must be growing.
Malcolm Webber
The Paradox of Investing in Others: How Passing the Torch Makes You Burn More Brightly
It seems counterintuitive, but the more you replicate yourself, the greater your job security.
Justin Rizzo
Motivating Others
We limit our thinking when we assume that staff are simply motivated by external rewards. Research reveals a different reality.
Elaine Vitikainen
The Temptation of the “Quick Fix” in Leadership
Sometimes we have to look at things on a deeper, heart level and understand why people and situations are the way they are. Even why we are the way we are, and what we might need to change.
Adrian Pei
Dave Odom Building Leaders: The “With” Principle
Jesus built leaders who were “with Him.” He did not do it at a distance; He did it closely, He did it personally. He did it properly.
Malcolm Webber
18 Ways to Identify Emerging Leaders
For most people, programs will not automatically transform them into superior leaders, as if they were butterflies emerging from cocoons. We should spend more time on accurately identifying which ones we should work with.
Malcolm Webber
The Word of God Must Be Central in Building Leaders!
The teaching of the Word of God was central in Jesus’ method of building leaders, and it must be in ours.
Malcolm Webber