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Finding Your Writing Process

If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.

Your Sabbatical Can be Healthy for Your Whole Organization

A healthy sabbatical offers an organization--not just a leader--powerful opportunities to take new ground.

Navigating the 4 Phases of a Sabbatical

Four phases are common to a good sabbatical experience, but each one is fraught with temptations that can sabotage the best of intentions.

Mentoring: What if it isn't hard?

I think most of us have been conned into thinking that mentoring is hard. That somehow being a successful mentor is beyond the reach of...

It’s Time to Give Away Power

I want to talk about power. No, not the dark side of power nor all the abuses that flow from it—a good topic for another day—but the...

Turn Supervision Into Empowerment

The org chart says you are the boss, the supervisor, the one responsible for managing your people. But, your heart says leading these...

Navigating the Swamp of People’s Expectations // PART TWO

You Cannot Lead without Conflict Whether you cause it or step into it, it comes with the territory! This reality is one more reason why...

Healthy Leaders are Willing to Take A Punch

Yesterday, a staff member from our church described our pastor with a uniquely insightful compliment. “He is willing to take a punch for...

360 Degree Mentoring and How to Find It

A BIG CLUE: The answer is not... Yoda... Gandalf… Dumbledore… Jiminy Cricket... all fictional superheroes of the mentoring world. The...