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What If You Never Achieve Success in Your Lifetime?
If you happen to be creative or have discovered the great purpose for your life, you probably spend time wondering if your work will ever get noticed. It’s such a big issue that I wrote my book Read more →
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3 Communications Mistakes Young Leaders Make
As Pastor of Leadership Expansion at 12Stone Church, I have many opportunities to help young pastors upgrade their communication craft and have noticed that many young communicators make similar mistakes. However, there are also three guidelines to h...
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The Top 7 Sayings of Excellent Leaders
Recently, I shared seven questions every leader should use often. It also made me think there was a similar set of phrase...
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5 Keys to Leading Difficult People (Without Losing Your Mind)
If you’ve been leading for longer than a week or two, you know what it means to interact with difficult people.
A friend of mine called last week to ask advice about how to better lead one of his board members for a small nonprofit. My friend, let’s...
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The 5 Worst Ways to Respond to Criticism
Criticism accompanies leadership.
Every leader knows this. Make any decision and some will agree and some won’t.The only way to avoid criticism as a leader is to do nothing.
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6 Qualities of Awesome Church Administrators
Whether you are a small church or a megachurch, every church staff needs people who help keep the trains running on time.
When your team is looking to hire an administrative staff member, you need to seek someone who is not only a greatRead more →
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11 Leadership Lessons I Learned From Failure
Failure is a part of life. It is not a question of if you will fail. You will. The question is what will you do with failure? How will it change you? How will failure make you better? But re...
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Why You MUST Practice "Backside Leadership"
One critical part of leadership is what I like to call the “backside of leadership.”
It’s the part that is unseen. Or unknown at the time. It’s the unspoken, unclear, has-to-be-tested side of leadership. So critical. Yea...- Published on
5 Mistakes I Made Early in Ministry (and How to Avoid Them)
I love it when leaders share their success stories. It’s great to pick up transferable principles and try to work them into your life.
But there’s a part of me that likes it even more when leaders share their mistakes.
When someone shares...
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8 Tips for Expanding Staff on a Small Budget
One of the more common concerns I hear from church leaders is the lack of funds to do ministry or to hire staff. The concern is often expressed as, “Our church is small; we can’t afford to do that.” But that sense of scarcity is not limited to small...
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How to Be a Terrible Boss: A 13-Step Guide
Do you want to be an epically bad boss? Do you want to grind employees into dust, crush their morale, and leave quaking dry husks of humanity in your wake? If so, then all you need to do is follow these 13 simple steps. You will be at the top of the...
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What the #!&@$ Is My Calling?!
Can we admit that when Christians talk about calling it can carry a lot of baggage? Surely we have all asked, “What’s my calling?” We can feel a lot of pressure to figure it out. It can be a confusing process. It can carry a lot of worry and fear. “W...
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What's Keeping You From Following Through?
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Making Disciples in the Meeting Room
Often ministry leaders will ask, “What do you do for discipleship?” and then a few moments later ask, “What do you do for leadership development?”—as if the two are mutually exclusive. This is a grave mistake. While it may be helpful to view leadersh...
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Surprise! Your #1 Distraction at Work Is ...
There’s been plenty written about distractions these days—especially at the office. Everyday workers face a variety of obstacles to focused work that didn’t exist with past generations of employees. Social media, the Internet, mobile phones, text mes...