8 Tips for Developing Your Workplace Culture
Here are eight important qualities that define organizations with a strong culture.
Fred Noble
Community
Articles in this category focus on rejoicing in the community of other believers, how to build and nurture community, and how to better reflect Jesus Christ to our brothers and sisters in the faith.
Fred Noble
What I Wish I Had Known 20 Years Ago as a Pastor
If you are just starting out in ministry, here are five key lessons Charles Stone learned over the last 20 years as a pastor.
Charles Stone
The Biggest Way People on Your Team Know You Value Them
How can a leader let each person on the team know they are valued? When people you serve sense that you are responding specifically to them they know they are valued. Here are four ways leaders should respond to each person on the team.
Eric Geiger
Are You Wise with Your Buckets of Influence?
Good leaders know when to use the right bucket. The most important thing for you to do as a leader is to use your influence to promote fairness, lawfulness, peace, empathy and real prosperity for everyone.
Mike Mowery
Collaborating with a Tentative and Open Mind
I’ve learned that if we go into any collaboration with an open mind, even tentatively, this can be both more fulfilling and productive. It results in better relationships and genuinely shared ownership of outcomes.
Doreen Kwarimpa-Atim
Vince Miller 
Elaine Vitikainen Authentically Counterproductive
We hear so much about being an “authentic” leader. I believe fully in authenticity. You must lead from who you are; at the same time, authenticity does not give you permission to be a jerk. The most productive leader leads from strengths and dials back those tendencies to react poorly. This week’s question: When might [...]
Corey Olynik
How to Help Someone Not Change
Dear Stephen, I have this person in my life – maybe it’s my spouse, maybe it’s one of my kids, maybe it’s a friend – it doesn’t really matter. They have this sinful habit that drives me absolutely bonkers. They complain a lot. Or maybe they criticize me a lot. Or maybe they argue a […]
Stephen Altrogge
3 Changes Your Church Needs to Make to Serve Families Better
Ministry is shifting. If you’ve been in children’s ministry for a while (as many of you have), you might feel like your skills are growing dull; strategies that used to work seem to fall flat. Practices that used to easily equip families no longer work. Things are changing. There are a host of cultural realities […]
Larry Fowler
Building Relationships for Lasting Success
Whether you realize or not, relationships are the fuel that feeds your success, and are often highlighted as an important part of your role as a leader. Interpersonal relationships are most important to success in all organizations today. They are especially important in times of organizational stress, emergencies and disasters. They are [...]
Patrick Ondrey
Parenting as Missionary Training
After glimpsing pain in my neighbor’s eyes my curiosity was stoked. That moment has led us to five years of immersion into the lives of those in closest proximity to us. We immersed ourselves in the rhythms and relationships of our neighborhood. We anticipated some great opportunities, but we didn’t anticipate training our kids to [...]
Alan Briggs
Had Your Buttons Pushed Lately?
While writing this, I am watching four seagulls that are initially sunning themselves on the sand. Then suddenly two start squawking at the other two and a battle is begun, until one party is intimidated and retreats. But no reconciliation or resolution has taken place. How often does that happen in life?
Stephen Mayers
Groupthink Can Kill Your Team! Here’s How You Treat It
Groupthink lulls a team into deadly complacency. Here’s how to know if your team is already there.
Malcolm Webber
How to View God’s Weak, Flawed and Messy People
It’s easy to look at our brothers and sisters and see their warts and blemishes. Yet the perfect One, the holy One, the One without a single imperfection doesn’t look on His people the way we often do.
Mark Altrogge
7 Traits of a Great Team Member
The longer a great team is together, the better it seems to work together, but it starts with finding the right people to join the team.
Ron Edmondson
7 Ways I Gain Influence with a Team
I think it’s vital to a healthy team that the leader be continually conscious of his or her need for influence and ways to improve upon it.
Ron Edmondson
The Life-Changing Magic of Showing Up
We all want better, truer, deeper Christian community. We all want to grow personally. But how do we get there? Scripture has a surprising answer: Show up. We are obsessed with life hacks and shortcuts today. Everywhere ads hit us with easy tricks to grow our investments, to make dinner prep a breeze, to give […]
Ricky Alcantar
8 Tips to Survive the Messy Middle
Impacted by a testimony of the transforming work of God in someone’s life, we are often left in awe of God’s faithfulness and with a fresh hope of what He will do in us and in others we are praying for. How quickly we forget that in most cases transformation in our lives is a […]
William Frisbie
Don’t Just Be Accountable to Your Leader – Be Accountable to Each Other!
The effectiveness and health of a team is directly associated with developing a common working approach.
Malcolm Webber