Leaders: have you ever found that, when you ask for volunteers, the wrong people will usually volunteer? People who can’t greet or smile volunteer to be greeters and ushers. People who...

We’re prone to thinking that people go through seasons of transition and seasons of staying the same. However, everyone, including you, is constantly changing! Our emotions, bodies, minds,...

Most of us view disappointments in a negative light. We try to shift blame,
absolve ourselves of responsibility, and fret about what went wrong. Instead, we
need to view disappointments in light of...

Perhaps one of the greatest regrets we can have in our lives is looking back and realizing we did not have coaches and mentors guiding us. It may seem like a luxury; but in leadership, coaches and...

Leaders often get sidetracked with a multitude of questions. When new projects arise, we can become obsessed with the logistics. The most essential question leaders will ask, however, is,...

Many of us are discouraged when we fall, thinking we’re failures. However, look at children. The only way they can walk is by falling enough times to learn what it takes. Think of falling as...

This principle will free you from a lot of frustration and heartache. Do you have a person on your team who consistently doesn’t deliver what you’d like them to deliver? Do you have...

Delegation. It’s a word tossed around in organizational circles a lot. When we look at delegation, we are looking at who can help us do something. There is a difference between dumping and...

When crisis strikes, our first instinct is to try to deconstruct why it happened: did we not plan adequately? Is there something we could have done better? Instead of asking questions that will...

All organizations, churches included, have both events and processes. Some organizations say, ‘We’re really good at doing events.’ Some say, ‘We’re really good at...