Equipping Leaders To Multiply

Practice Strategic Absence

What happens when you are not around? How well do church services function? How does your area of ministry operate without you? What goes wrong? What goes right?  Who is leading in your absence? Who steps up when you are out? When the leader is absent, the wheels tend to come off, and anything that could go wrong will go wrong. That’s when you return from vacation or a long weekend off and think to…Continue Reading

The “Loud Talker” Leader

Some of my favorite Seinfeld episodes are those about the “soft talker,” “close talker,” and the one about Dan, the “high talker.” But one they didn’t cover is the loud talker.  The loud talker is that friend you are afraid to meet in a coffee shop because everyone in the shop can hear when he talks. He isn’t shouting; his voice is just…loud. And it always amazes me that these individuals are typically unaware that…Continue Reading

My Team isn’t Doing What I Ask Them to Do!

As I browsed through the Business Leadership section at a Barnes & Noble Bookstore, a book title caught my eye and stopped me in my tracks. “Why Employees Don’t Do What They’re Supposed to Do and What to do About It” by Ferdinand Fournies. I was a 29-year-old leader who only had volunteer leaders reporting to me, but the book title described the pain I was feeling. I immediately bought the book, took it home, and…Continue Reading

Leadership Development for Your Staff

Mike got into student ministry because he loved Jesus, loved teenagers, and wanted to disciple students to live Christ-centered lives. As he stood before his group of volunteer leaders with a handful of weighty ministry decisions and the people in the room waiting for him to lead, he wondered how he went from his simple vision for serving as a youth pastor to the weight he felt of leading a team. The one thing he…Continue Reading

Jumpstart Your 2022 Leadership Development

Lifeway Research conducted a survey with pastors in 2021 to discover what they see as their most pressing needs in their churches today. Can you guess the #1 issue that was identified by the majority of pastors? It was leadership development that came in at the top of the list with 77% identifying it as their number one issue that is concerning them. (Click here to view the full article from Lifeway.) While that is…Continue Reading