“Getting beyond your own narrative helps you widen your outlook, cleans up your perspective, and softens your heart.” Steve Graves shares about the importance of being a thoughtful leader. “It’s true that glamorizing the past can leave you longing to go back rather than forward. But ignoring the past can be just as dangerous. Knowing…
Young Leaders
Links for Leaders 11/11/16
Leveraging creativity, having the courage to stay, and more.
Links for Leaders 10/28/16
Working for a boss younger than you, lowering leaders’ frustration, and more.
Links for Leaders 8/19/16
Sometimes, it can be difficult for young people to work alongside and properly respect their elders. However, it is important for young people to follow their elders with humility and to learn to lead from them. Here are seven ways young leaders succeed with elders, by Dan Rockwell. “What everyone wants is the very thing…
Young Leaders, Believe in Your Church
Throughout history God has greatly used young leaders to challenge and lead His people, and the Scripture gives us the sense that a church should believe in young leaders. A church that does not believe in young leaders is a church that has drifted from our great history. Because of this, I have challenged churches…
3 Reasons Some Churches Struggle to Empower Younger Leaders
Intuitively church folks know that their churches must empower younger leaders. Simply stated, if a church fails to engage new generations, the church will eventually die. Yet while people know a church must empower younger leaders, some churches struggle to do so. They struggle to hand significant responsibility to younger leaders, to empower younger leaders…
Links for Leaders 5/20/16
Brainstorming ideas is an important part of many leadership roles. Whether you’ve been tasked to brainstorm a new business plan, you’re trying to set up a leadership pipeline in your church, or you’re working with your spouse to brainstorm ways to help your children in their schoolwork, sifting through ideas is a task in many…
Links for Leaders 4/17/15
Leading as a young person can be difficult. Dan Rockwell shares 10 ways to be a mature leader, even when you’re young. What sort of leader are you? Are you a rebellious leader or a submissive leader? I’m thankful for Selma’s wisdom, and she is helpful on this topic. Like I said above, leading as…
Links for Leaders 4/10/15
Nearly all of us are called to lead in some form or fashion in our lives, whether thats at work, at home, or otherwise. But for those of us who have a sort of “senior leadership” role, there are some abilities we need to work toward. Ron Edmondson is helpful as usual with these seven…
4 Reasons to Believe in Young Leaders
For a long time, I was the young leader. I took my first role on a church staff just before I turned 19. When I moved to Cincinnati to serve as student pastor, I flew into the airport and was too young to rent a car. I moved to Miami to serve as executive pastor…