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I’m Allowed to Change Slowly, but You Must Change Fast. Really Fast.

Yes, it’s hard to wait for others to change. But if God patiently waits for us to change, we can also wait for others.

6 Ways to Lead Your Team Through Turbulent Times

How you handle hard times will set the tone for how your team handles those same hard times. If you’re running around like a headless chicken, or acting like a sulky toddler who missed out on their favorite ice cream, people will consider the way you are leading – and then they will quickly follow suit.

Suzi McAlpine

Simple Kindness

Let’s spread more kindness this year, without expecting anything in return. This week let’s commit ourselves to a simple act of kindness each day at our workplace.

Elaine Vitikainen

Putting the “We” in Leadership

Watch your pronouns. It might just make you a better leader!

Mike Mowery

Stop Complaining, Start Engaging

Pastors may lead the church as shepherds, but they are not the owners. They are not the only ones who will be held responsible for the condition of the church. That’s on us all.

Tyler Edwards

Peace Within and Around

With God’s grace, we can be at peace wherever we are.

Priya Ashvita Raj Kumar

8 Questions to Help Your Church Focus Its Outreach

The church’s leadership team worked through the delicate discussion of whether to choose a target demographic group to focus on reaching for Christ. Here are eight questions a leadership team can ask to discover their target group.

Brian Thorstad

We Need to Learn Empathy!

Studies have linked empathy to greater patient satisfaction, better outcomes, decreased physician burnout, and a lower risk of malpractice suits and errors. Doctors need to understand people, not just science, and healthy leaders need to cultivate empathy in order to affect the lives of those around them.

Malcolm Webber

Building a Connected Prayer Army

During this crisis that forces isolation, we must make sure to look beyond our quasi-connection with millions of people. Let’s make a real effort to foster a few strong individual connections. May God lead to safely help others without contributing to the transmission of the disease. Instead we want to let God lead us to contribute to [...]

Jim Brenneman

How to Engage Marginalized Employees

Marginalized employees ‒ they are in your organization, right now. They’re on the fringes. They are the people who don’t join in. What lessons does Jesus’ life teach us about putting our arms around these people and insuring they feel valued as well?

Mark Deterding

7 Questions Leaders Should Use Often

Questions can be a way to improve the health on a team. And, sometimes even improve an unhealthy team member. It’s all in picking the right questions. And, asking them.

Ron Edmondson

God’s Vision for the Generations

From the beginning of creation, God had a clear vision for generational succession. Everything we do should carry this vision!

Malcolm Webber

Jesus’ 6-Step Strategy for Resolving Conflict

Conflict is unavoidable in relationships. Conflict isn’t necessarily sinful or destructive, but it can be depending on what we do with it. Jesus outlines a clear, specific, and workable process in Matthew 18.

Charles Stone

How Should I Confront My Leader?

“How do I confront my leader?” Because God uses confrontation to mature us and develop us and because a life without confrontation is a life without growth, it is an important question. But it is also a dangerous question.

Eric Geiger

Braveheart!

Jesus taught that being trustworthy in the small things leads to greater trust with the big things (Matt. 25:21). The movie Braveheart, about Scot highlander William Wallace, illustrated this value of faithfulness in the small things.

Jess MacCallum

Cultivating Trust Is a Crucial Task for Leaders

To cultivate trust, leaders must contribute to a sense of safety, commit themselves to listening, empower others to act, learn from their mistakes, and promise only what they can deliver.

Dave Odom

Leadership Lessons I Didn’t Expect to Learn

Leading a team is one of the most difficult things you can ever do. The individuals on the team are different, yet they need to work together to create a cohesive team that has a personality and life of its own.

Fred Noble