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...
Feb 28, 2024 | Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement
Why hire a coach? Is it a sign of weakness or strength? I am a golf fan – don’t yawn – and one of the things that blows me away is how many coaches most pro golfers have. They have swing coaches, conditioning coaches, putting coaches, sports psychology...
Feb 23, 2024 | Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement
“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu It may be true, but the first few miles can still leave you doubting your sanity. Somewhere many miles into the journey you finally start to see the vision you had in the beginning take...
Dec 4, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership
The New World Encyclopedia defines community as derived from the Latin communitas (meaning the same), which is in turn derived from communis, which means “common, public, shared by all or many.” I recently listened to a podcast where this was teased-out a...
Nov 2, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Culture, Organizational Leadership, Self Improvement
I have been thinking a lot about community over the past several years. Many of us have had to re-think what community is at the most basic level – and what it is not – coming out of the pandemic. A lot of airtime is given to the concept that “people make...
Oct 16, 2023 | Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Productivity, Self Improvement
One of the challenges of our social media culture is the deflating effect of scrolling through posts and looking at the success of others on a daily basis. The reality is that those posts are either the result of many weeks, months or years of perseverance towards a...
Aug 2, 2023 | Uncategorized
A repeated conversation I have had with many CEOs is a frustration with their relationship with the board. It stems from a feeling that the board is never satisfied with the information they are receiving. When a CEO doesn’t have answers to the questions they’re...
