Tag: leadership development
Why You are Struggling to Build a Team Around You
Leadership is often lonely. This loneliness is compounded by the fact that many leaders can’t quite figure out how to put together a good team around them. These leaders have vision but no real team. They have been blessed …
7 Steps to Developing Leaders in your Church
I encounter few pastors who have any real plan for intentional leadership development. Most, instead, rely on imported ready-made “leaders.” We say that we value developing leaders, but often times we just are not sure where to begin. Earlier this …
How to Develop Leaders in your Church
Many pastors have no essential plan for developing leaders. We (hopefully) know how to interpret the Bible, how to preach, and how to counsel, but are often ineffective at training both current and future church leaders. There is perhaps no …
Three ways to free up 8 hours in your week
Feeling overwhelmed with your schedule? Implement these 3 Simple Steps to free up (at least) 8 hours per week. 1. Eliminate most 1 on 1 meetings. Many one on one meetings work just as well as one on two …
Why Youth Pastors are Endangered (And How you can Find one)
Twenty years ago the on-ramp to vocational ministry was youth ministry. Today it is difficult to even find a good youth pastor. Why is this the case? My contention is that youth pastors are an endangered species because so many …