Called to Lead: "10 Ways You Can Start Leading Today" and More

10 Ways You Can Start Leading Today

Change doesn’t take place unless someone acts. Having been a leader in a variety of settings from business to nonprofits and now to education, I can safely say that more people like to talk a big game when it comes to change than to do the work necessary to make the change true. The most important test of a leader’s resolve is if he or she is willing to act on their ideas. Read More

90 Second Leadership – What Kind of Leader are You [Video]

What kind of leader are you? Leadership development is both poetry and plumping. It is vision that inspires, but it is also the systems and processes that actually deliver on the dream. So, what kind of a leader are you? Watch Now

How to Know if You’re Succeeding as a Church Leader

Why do you do what you do in ministry? What’s driving you? Better yet, how do you understand what you are doing in ministry? What is your sense of what faithfulness to Jesus looks like in the context of your efforts in the local church? Read More

3 Ways to Become a Terrible Leader

I’m sure you’re like me – you don’t want to be known as the terrible leader either. It can happen quickly and without warning. But I’ve found that there are three traits that are found, most of the time, in terrible leaders. They may not have all three . . . in fact, just having one of these is enough to make a terrible leader. So, take inventory…are any of these true about you? Let’s dig in.... Read More

As Preparation Increases, Stress Decreases

I’ve noticed this principle so many times in my own leadership and in working with other leaders. The more prepared I am to face a situation the less stress I have in the situation. Read More

How Do Older Leaders Follow Young Leaders?

Do you follow a leader who is younger than you are? This reality is becoming more and more common and will continue as the Xer’s and Millennials rise into positions of leadership. Read More

How Young Leaders Can Lead Older Leaders

Leading someone older than you can be challenging. As the Boomer generation ages and hands the baton of leadership to the X’ers and Millennials, more and more young leaders find themselves leading those older than themselves.This is an important question: Why do some young leaders do it well and some do it poorly? Read More

The Challenge of Leading in an Age of Arrogance

Have we made our ability to find and disseminate knowledge more important than other things that truly do matter more? Read More

15 Reasons Why Top Church Volunteers Quit

Sadly, when great volunteers leave a position, they often leave their church as well. They feel they have no other options. This is something pastors and church leaders must aggressively address. Read More

For 15 years I served as the senior lay reader of my former parish. The chief reason that I resigned from this voluntary ministry position in which I had helped the church make the transition from being a satellite congregation of the oldest parish in the deanery to a subsidized mission to a self-supporting parish was that I saw no future for myself in the parish or the denomination.