I love pastors. For the last couple years I didn’t serve as a pastor while I was leading At Leadership Network, but I landed back into an intentional interim role on February 1st. I am pastoring my home church for a season. While I thought I was here to redirect a few things and prepare…
Leadership
Crisis Response: What’s Your Style?
Leaders: what is your method of crisis response? I love the leadership displayed during a scene in “It’s a Wonderful Life” where George Bailey is about to leave for his honeymoon and panic struck the Building and Loan. As the president, he was forced to avert his plan, go back and save the company. He…
Does God’s Guidance Shows Us How to Lead?
Does God's guidance show us how to lead? I believe we can learn a lot about planting and pastoring by thinking about God's guidance. He prioritizes relationship over arrival. He prefers intimacy over efficiency. He loves trusting over rushing. and perhaps most difficult, he into mystery over simplicity. God's guidance often feels like going nowhere…
Building Trust Takes Great Listening
Great listening helps us in building trust. You’ve probably heard the saying, “People don’t care what you know, until they know you care.” I have found this to be quite true. I could share the greatest wisdom on the face of the earth with someone, but if they don’t trust me it will likely go…
Controlling Leaders Aren’t Born: They’re Made
One of the most dangerous forms of leadership, and one of the most frustrating, in my opinion, is the controlling leader. I’ve written about this issue previously, because I believe it is one of the leading reasons for stalled growth and low morale in an organizational or team setting. Under a controlling leader’s watch, leadership…
Feeling Un-Qualified? How To Deal With Leadership Stress
When I was growing up I frequently heard the phrase.If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. I’m not sure that’s a saying anymore, but either way, I love a good analogy to help me think through a topic. And I think the phrase applies in leadership. But I’m not sure getting…
