Developing yourself is the foundation of effective leadership. Without this foundation, relationships will crumble under the stress of competing needs and opinions. Without a healthy sense of your own value, the mission can shift from a noble cause to a self-centered quest for success. Conversely, a growing leader creates an ecosystem of healthy growth for…
Simple leadership. I have spent the last few years trying to think both deeply and simply about leadership. In this post I want to give a very simple overview of the basic framework of my thinking. Later I will go into more on how and why I ended up here. For now, conceiving of leadership…
As Christian leaders, creating a climate of creativity is foundational. If we are looking to God’s relationship to us as a theological basis for leadership development, the world is created as a context, a climate where we can share His life as His image in a relational context. What does such a climate look like?…
Leadership is sometimes easier than followership. Sunday is a good day to practice being a follower. Like being a sheep instead of the shepherd. What do sheep think???? Water… mmmmmm. Pasture… zzzzzzzzzz. Guy with crooked stick… baaahhhhh. Wolf….. where’s the guy with crooked stick??? How are you finding rest and restoration these days? …
Continuing the theme of Christian leadership development through dialog, I saw this post by Justin Wise at ChurchLeaders.com. Lecturing Out: Crowdsourcing In. Think about all the conferences you’ve attended or heard about. They all have the standard format: Speaker, Break, Speaker, Lunch, Speaker, Dismissal, with little or no time built-in for interaction. The audience is…
Epic Fail Pastors Conference from Epic Fail Pastors Conference on Vimeo. Are we looking at a new model for Christian leadership events and conferences? The days of people going to conferences to listen to high-profile speakers are giving way to collaborative events where everyone learns and contributes. Chaplin Mike has found a conference he…
Futurist David Houle has published our work on learning and mentoring in his journal and spoke to our staff. Here is his quick look at the future of education. These changes need to be applied in how we develop Christian leaders and learners in our ministries. He highlights five ways learning must shift in the…
