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Up at a staff retreat/advance. Our executive assistant, Jane Broe is sharing on Leadership. Here’s some of her points:
Qualities of a leader (an influencer of others)

Integrity
Nurturer
Faith in people
Listens
Understands
Enlarges
Navigates
Connects
Empowers
Reproduces

Qualities of a leader in ministry:

Has a growing personal faith, knows and uses their gifts
Has great communication skills, is persuasive, informative, and is a listener
Demonstrates leadership skills, track [...]

So, we’ve gone ‘old school’ over this past year and launched a ‘Deacon Team’ (note: not a Deacon Board). My role as executive pastor has blessed me with oversight of this team, and I’m NOT being sarcastic. Theses guys are amazing servants, faithful, and hard working. I’ve had two meetings so far, and we’re kind [...]

I met with a friend the other day who has chosen to invest in my life - I’m grateful for people like that. We talked a lot about leadership and the church, but the main focus of our conversation focused around developing people, with the intention of forming leaders; leaders who would lead others. I [...]

It’s funny how blessings come into your life in the most interesting ways. Last week I found out that I was the winner of a little contest over at Jenni Catron’s blog. I am now the owner of ‘Unleashing the Power of Rubber Bands‘ by Nancy Ortberg. I didn’t even realize it but the forward [...]

Craig Groeschel wrote a great little post over at his blog, check it out:
The four styles I most often observe include:

Relational leaders: These leaders motivate others through personal connections.
Visionary leaders: These leaders move people by painting a picture of what “could be.”
Administrative leaders: These leaders move the ball forward by organizing groups of people with [...]

Continued from part 1…
Again, these are all pretty much direct quotes:
The most defining factor for success is culture. The culture defines everything that happens.
Culture = this is how we do things here.

I’m at FUEL, a leadership conference put on by Generations Church, hosted at LifeChurch (my church). Dr. Chand is speaking about leadership and the church and the future. This is great stuff - I sat through his talks a year or two ago and it changed my life, so I wanted to make sure I [...]

We’ve been going through catalyst as a staff over the past few weeks. A great tool to talk about difficult issues in leadership. This week we went through an article called “The Diamond Life” by Ken Myers. Wow. Ken compares the leadership journey to a baseball diamond (please don’t think Warrenback). Here’s some of the [...]

I just found this quote, and yes, it’s by Dr. Sam Chand (who, by the way will be speaking at FUEL at LifeChurch this Saturday).
I have a dog at home, that dog will never sing. It’s a good dog, I love my dog, I spend money on my dog, but that dog will never sing. [...]

I read Perry Noble’s blog.
So should you.
Last week he pointed me in the direction of Andy Stanley’s new Leadership Podcast.
I subscribed to it.
So should you.
Here’s a little sample…
Everyone of us is emotionally in love with the way we do ministry. It may not work, but we love it!
’nuff said.