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Becoming a "leader of leaders" requires effective empowerment. If you haven’t read The Power of Delegation: Part 1, check it out here....

Successful leadership of any organization is dependent on the ability to effectively delegate. Good delegation is a defining feature of...

Every church leader has to wrestle with the financial demands of ministry. The apostle Paul was bi-vocational as a tentmaker. But Acts...

In highly politically-polarized times, church leaders walk a tricky tightrope. Even the most self-aware leaders who don’t want to promote...

Back when I was pastoring, I held on to a letter for years that would remind me what was really important for me and my church. A woman...

The closing of a year typically engenders a reflective look back and some prognostication for the next one. I would prefer to not look...

Think about this: the most important event in human history happens and who learns about it first? Shepherds. Of course. The guys on the...

Though I’ve never really spoken about it publicly, the church I pastored had a number of run-ins with disturbed people. When you open...

The organizational behavior philosopher Charles Handy made reference to an exercise known as the Johari Window. The Johari exercise...

About 35 years ago, the Journal of Community Psychology featured a landmark article by David McMillan and David Chavis outlining four...

Leaders and pastors, have you ever heard this?: “When are we going to get the deep teaching here? When am I going to get some meat?” ...

Please welcome our friend and guest blogger Boyd Pelley! Boyd co-founded Churchteams, a leader in church management software. In this...

At one point at the church where I pastored, we were doing seven identical services every weekend. In a room that seated 570 people, we...

Over the years I’ve found myself ruminating on why pastors are often reluctant to engage with outside organizational assessors,...

As a child, I hated tests in school. The clammy feeling in your hands, the sound of the clock ticking, wondering if everyone else is...

Being a creative leader means ensuring that everyone in the organization is playing to their creative strengths and feels that their...

Organizations (and leaders) must have a certain amount of change and challenge in order to be fully alive with new questions and...

“Virtually everything our modern culture believes about the type of leadership required to transform our institutions is wrong. It is...

This one’s for pastors/teachers only…and it’s super-nerdy. But sometimes in my coaching other pastors, they’ll ask, “So how did you write...

With long-term ministry—that is, ministry over the long haul—there is one big danger zone: Burnout. But burnout has two different faces. ...