Leadership

How to Identify and Handle a People Problem

You improve people problems by improving people.

E Pluribus Unum?

God delights in our diversity and calls us to pursue reconciliation wherever needed.

You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Please Everyone

Learning to balance the natural tension of loving and caring for people, but not allowing someone to leverage their personal agenda or hijack the vision of your church is part of the leader’s responsibility.

7 Problems When Church Leaders Isolate Themselves

Though it sometimes masquerades as self-care, extended isolation has some dangerous side effects.

When the Mental Load is Affecting Your Leadership

Toward the end of the day or a week when a leader has had to make too many decisions, he may find himself losing his cool more easily, flying off the handle, or saying thing things he shouldn’t.

7 Things Joyful Pastors Do

And how I try to practice their habits

Finding Clarity

“Activity is not the same as productivity. We need to figure out what the right things are.”

5 Ways to Build Character for Long-Term Leadership

How to go the distance as a leader without having a catastrophic moral failure.

7 Lessons Learned While Leading Change

It’s difficult to know the perfect time to make a change, but doing the right thing at the wrong time can end up being the wrong thing – no matter how much change is needed.

Don’t Carry the Weight of Ministry Alone

Addressing the chronic stress that is burning many pastors out

Colorful Compassion

What Jesus praised as the very paragon of love is compassion across boundaries of difference.