Equipping Leaders To Multiply

When it’s a Personnel Problem

This week I had the opportunity to hang out with Raul Palacios, the Executive Pastor of Flamingo Road Church and a few of his team members. Under the leadership of Lead Pastor Troy Gramling Flamingo Road has experienced explosive growth moving from one campus to six campuses in the past three years.  What a humble and creative team of people!  In this video interview Raul talks about dealing with employee performance issues.  You can scroll…Continue Reading

Making Coaching Work with Eric Metcalf

I had the opportunity recently to sit down with Eric Metalf and talk about Small Group Coaching.  Eric is the Small Groups Director at Christian Community Church, a multisite church with eleven different campuses.  Eric was also recently named the director of the New Thing Network.  CCC is an amazing church where Lead Pastor Dave Ferguson has built a rich leadership development culture where multiplication has become a part of their DNA. In this video Eric shares…Continue Reading

Make their Dreams Come True

As we were driving home from vacation this summer I noticed that everyone was asleep except for my 14 year old daughter Brianna.  So I took this as an opportunity to ask some fun exploratory questions and get a look into her heart a little bit.  For nearly two hours I asked her questions like: If you could go to lunch with anyone in the world who would it be and why?  If you could make a movie what…Continue Reading

An Inspiring Leadership Development Story

I was in Dallas recently and heard one of the greatest leadership development stories in recent history.  During lunch Jonathan Shibley and Jeff Jenkins from Global Advance, shared the history and story of this leader training organzation.  Their story illustrates what can be done when God gives one man a vision for multiplying leaders.  In this video Jonathan, the VP of Global Advance tells why his father David Shibley started this incredible ministry.  You can learn more about…Continue Reading

Overcoming the Fear of Technology

Last night I was sitting in my livingroom in Charleston, South Carolina chatting with DJ Chuang in Orange County, California via Wetoku.  DJ is the Director of Digitial Initiatives for Leadership Network.  I asked DJ to talk to leaders about overcoming the fear of technology.  We live in a hi-tech world and that is not changing.  So as leaders we either have to adapt or be left behind.   Check out the video interview with DJ below or…Continue Reading