Equipping Leaders To Multiply
Are you happy with the leadership development results of your church? Most pastors are not. Barna’s 2020 State of the Church reports that “One in four U.S. pastors (23%) selects ‘Lack of leadership training and development” as a major concern facing their church today.” Nearly every church I talk to longs for an intentional leadership development strategy. Yet, few can articulate what that would look like for their church. In this time of the COVID-19…Continue Reading
There are potential leaders right in front of your very eyes. Don’t miss them. It’s easy to get stuck in the practice of trying to find “ready-made” leaders. We look for the person who’s been trained somewhere else or has leadership experience from their previous church. Ready-made leaders are nice. No training required. Just plug and play and they’re on their way. It makes our job as staff easy. But there are inherent problems with…Continue Reading
They say you can look at a persons/church’s checkbook and tell what is important to them. How much will your church budget for developing leaders in 2020? Of the percentage how much is dedicated to developing the staff versus developing lay leaders? What might happen if we paid as much attention to the competency of our leaders as we did the cash in our bank accounts? I’d be shocked if your key staff were not…Continue Reading
Why haven’t you started developing leaders? The longer you wait, the longer you will have a shortage of leaders. The longer you wait the more you are doing the work yourself. The longer you wait, the longer you limp toward your mission. So what’s stopping you? It’s not lack of awareness of the need. So what is it? Fear – You can’t trust others to take on leadership for fear they will mess things up.…Continue Reading
You’re busy. Very busy. So busy that you can find no time in your schedule to invest in developing new and existing leaders. As a result, you’re multiplying the number of hours it takes to get important things done. You’re multiplying the anxieties. And you’re multiplying the number of missed opportunities due to being the bottleneck in your area. You’re busy. Very busy. But you spend 20% or even 30% of your time developing new…Continue Reading