Leadership from the Sidelines
I’ve never been accused of (a) being a sports fan, (b) being all that knowledgeable about sports, or (c) having the ability to use a sportsing illustration as a jumping off point. So the following...
Category: Leadership
Get it Right, Then Have Fun.
I’m thinking this morning about Tim Conway. If you’re under 40, let Grandpa catch you up: Tim Conway was a comedic genius who hit his stride in the 60s and 70s. He is perhaps best...
“On the Wall” vs. “In the Walk”
Like a lot of churches, we have our fair share of statements that end up on the wall. Whether it’s our church-wide values, our ministry plumb lines, our staff values, or even the “north star”...
Three Questions to Call Out Someone’s Gifts
In the last post, we talked about the Bobs and Amys and Louises of our worlds: those people who called out giftings we didn’t know we had, spoke courage into areas where we were otherwise...
Call It Out.
Close your eyes and think with me for a moment. (No, wait. Read the next paragraph, and then close your eyes and think with me for a moment.) Think back to the person who first...
The 10 Commandments for a Fresh Fall Season
I don’t know about your church staff, but on ours, summertime has come to a screeching halt. Student camps are over. Vacation Bible School is in the books. Vacations are a distant memory. And the...
Raise the Bar.
In leadership, standards matter. Our employees, our volunteers, and our teams might indeed reach the standards we set for them. They’ll want to do what’s expected. They’ll want to serve to please. They’ll want to...
Zoom In, Zoom Out
In Tasha Eurich’s great book Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think, she recounts the story of a cancelled flight...
If We Don’t Equip Them, Someone Else Will.
The #1 rule of leaders-sitting-around-a-table-drinking-coffee is that as some point, you have to talk about volunteers: how few you have, how you don’t have the right ones, or how that one guy named Bill is...
Q&A: What Would You Change?
Q: Go back to your early days in your role. If you could easily “reset” from ground zero, would everything still look the same when you built it back, or what would change in regards...
