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Top 10 Posts of 2010 – #7 Soul Care

The Soul of Your Leaders Spiritual leadership isn’t just about accomplishing God given results, it’s also about caring for the souls of those we lead along the way.  As leaders we are accustomed to meeting with our direct reports and talking to them about action plans, priorities and results, but we often neglect talking to them about the condition of their soul.    While we don’t have to be their spiritual accountability partner or best friend it’s…Continue Reading

Top 10 Posts of 2010 – #6 Decisions

Stop Making Decisions Leaders are decision makers.  I heard someone say, “The leader gets paid the big bucks not to make the most decisions but to make the tough decisions.”  However, there are some leaders who feel it’s their job too make most of the decisions and as a result hinder the development of those on their team.  If you want to help potential leaders in your organization grow then give them some decisions to wrestle with.  When you allow others…Continue Reading

Top 10 Posts of 2010 – #5 Leadership Development

Top 10 Things You Can Do to Prepare Your Organization for the Future In a training session with the Seacoast Church staff a couple of years ago we arranged the training room to look like airplane seating.  At the beginning of the session I told them we were going on a trip, but I had good news and bad news.  The good news – we were going on a trip to Hawaii and on this pretend trip their families were…Continue Reading

Top 10 Posts of 2010 – #4 Discipleship

Discipleship Vs. Leadership Development Here is a question I get a lot:  What’s the difference between discipleship and leadership development?  Good question.  Fundamentally the process is the same, but the focus is different. Discipleship I learn to live like Jesus Leadership development I learn to lead like Jesus Discipleship is primarily about character Leadership development is primarily about competencies Discipleship is about leading self Leadership development is about leading others Discipleship is about cultivating intimacy with…Continue Reading

Top 10 Posts of 2010 – #3 Loyalty

The Small Demonstrations of Disloyalty I’ve never served under a leader that I agreed 100% with everything he or she said or did.  My guess is you’re experience has been the same.  But agreement is not the basis of loyalty.  Loyalty is rooted in relationship and respect regardless of differing opinions, approaches or philosophies. Disloyalty generally develops slowly and subtly slips it’s way into a persons character.  It expresses itself through pseudo commitment, self-promotion and slanderous comments that…Continue Reading