People follow people they trust. Leaders must gain trust and keep it if they hope to keep any sort of faithful following. Ron Edmondson shares helpful perspective with seven ways leaders can gain and keep trust. One of the most important, formative acts of a leader is giving good feedback. Everyone who has a manager…
Change
How to Reduce Resistance to Change
The following is a post by Todd Adkins. I have had the honor to serve with Todd in two different settings. We were in student ministry together in Cincinnati, Ohio. After serving together there, I went to Miami and he went to DC, where he served as executive director of Frontline—the young adult ministry of…
Links for Leaders 1/16/15
Kindness goes a long way when it comes to leadership. Thankful for my friend and neighbor Paul Jankowski. He shares 10 ways we can be kinder to each other on Forbes. If you’re a leader implementing large, long-lasting change in your organization, be sure to read what Scott Cochrane has to say about rolling up…
Lead Your Church to Love Your City
The following is a guest post from David Lopez. J. David Lopez is the husband of Adriana, father of Dave and Isabella, follower of Jesus, and campus pastor of Christ Fellowship Downtown Miami. Within a half hour of the writing of this article, I noticed some pretty graphic extremes. On one end, I heard about…
Your Role Is Changing
I have heard that there was a time when you could enter a job and stay in the same role as long as you wanted. You could, if you desired, essentially perform the same tasks in the same way every day and every year. Supposedly, you could find an unchanging rhythm and live in it….
The Importance of Movement
Movement is the sequential steps in the process that cause people to move to greater areas of commitment. Movement is about flow. It is about assimilation. Movement is what causes a person to go to the next step. Movement is the most difficult simple church element to understand; therefore, an illustration is in order. In…