Sep 19, 2025 | Business, Church Leadership, Leadership, Productivity
One of the constant and important challenges in leading is stewardship. When building a product you can add cost of goods sold and man hours, divide by sales and relatively simply get an idea of how profitable your activities are. When you are adding services to...
Jul 19, 2024 | Church Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement
Humility is a perspective thing. A definition would be “a modest or low view of one’s own importance; humbleness.” Humility is not about downplaying your talents or skills, because many leaders are leaders precisely because they have exhibited exceptional...
Jul 12, 2024 | Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership, Productivity
For most leaders, this question can be a scary one. Scary because we worry that the answer to this question will highlight all of our shortcomings to those who look to us to have all the answers. The reality is, everyone already knows we don’t have all the answers as...
Apr 15, 2024 | Fundraising, Marketing
I think it is a couple of high-level obstacles. Fear of the unknown is certainly one; fear of failure is another. Fear of the Unknown Let’s break it down. One of the things many not-for-profit leaders struggle with is understanding what is actually involved in donor...
Apr 9, 2024 | Church Leadership, Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership
Do you feel some days like you are drowning in the day-to-day? In fact, are things going really well, but they still seem out of control at the same time? Sometimes keeping things on the rails feels like a full-time leadership job, and not a fun one. Then a board or...
