Leadership2020-06-29T08:15:20-05:00

Leadership

Leaders in your church can take on different shapes. They can be elders, deacons, parking attendants or Sunday School teachers. How can you encourage these leaders and make sure that they are taking care of themselves—spiritually, emotionally and physically? Are they participating regularly in worship? Are they living a balanced life?

Clear Priorities Drive Good Decisions

By |March 15th, 2024|

Your decisions create the story of your life. And while nobody plans to complicate their life with bad decisions, far too many people have no plan to make good decisions. Andy Stanley in Better [...]

Be the Unicorn

By |February 20th, 2024|

William will unpack his latest book, Be the Unicorn. The book addresses the questions of, How do I stand out? and How do I become irreplaceable? William bases the answers on his firms in-person [...]

Be the Unicorn

By |November 28th, 2023|

William Vanderbloemen William Vanderbloemen’s latest book, Be the Unicorn: Data-Driven Habits that Separate the Best Leaders from the Rest, is a goldmine of information. He gets right at what the best leaders [...]

3 Tips for Leading
 Better Meetings

By |August 23rd, 2023|

Do you feel like your time is wasted in meetings? If so, you’re not alone. “A shocking 71% of professionals report having their time wasted, due to unnecessary or canceled meetings.” In this webinar [...]

2 Trends Impacting Your Leadership This Year

By |May 10th, 2023|

Over the past 3 years the expectations for leaders has only grown more acute. Staff transitions, waning morale, and rising mental health challenges are resulting in new research that suggests that 43% of managers [...]

Learning from Leadership Failures

By |May 1st, 2023|

One of my recent ECFA research projects involves leadership integrity. For David Fletcher’s in-person XP-Seminar in February, I surveyed the attendees, the majority of whom are the equivalent of Executive Pastor, with 1 in [...]

Why Implement a Written Integrity Plan?

By |April 6th, 2023|

Public confidence in nonprofits is declining to dangerous lows. Consider, for example, Gallup’s 2022 study on Confidence in Institutions, which reports that trust in the church has declined to an all-time low. Just 31% [...]

9 Resources on Financial Integrity

By |April 6th, 2023|

A nationwide survey of more than 700 church leaders conducted by Church Law & Tax showed that nearly one-third have served in congregations that suffered from some form of financial misconduct. Half occurred within [...]

Cultivating Hospitality in a Divided Church

By |February 11th, 2023|

Politics. Masks. Vaccines. The reasons churches are dividing are legion. How should we as church leaders cultivate spaces where people who have nothing else in common gather and are willing to put those differences [...]

The Art of Leading Change

By |January 6th, 2023|

Leading change is difficult. The hardest part is not deciding which path to follow. The bigger challenge is found in the messy human dynamics throughout the journey of change. Many resources for leading change [...]

4 Reasons You Don’t Delegate

By |December 9th, 2022|

I don’t have time to teach someone else how to do it. It will be quicker if I just do it myself. Chances are you’ve used one of those excuses when you’ve taken on a task [...]

Prepping New Leaders

By |December 6th, 2022|

Hey Fletch … A woman wanted to start an outreach ministry activity. She has good character and a right heart for the target audience. Now she’s drowning under the weight of being at the [...]

Culture is Currency

By |April 29th, 2022|

Your culture drives everything—how you attract great leaders, retain them and how you develop them. It even drives succession.
 Let’s talk about how the most important investment you can make is in your culture. This [...]

Opinionated Division, Steen Interviews Fletch

By |November 1st, 2021|

Matt Steen, co-founder of Chemistry Staffing, and David Fletcher, have a poignant talk about the unspoken stress that is causing Churches to make fast and bad, far-reaching decisions. In this Chemistry Conversation, David Fletcher [...]

Leading in Uncertain Times, Part 2

By |June 4th, 2021|

Welcome back to part two of a two part series where I lay out the final five (of ten) principles that form a path for leading in uncertain times, whether that be a pandemic, [...]

Leading in Uncertain Times, Part 1

By |June 4th, 2021|

The understatement of the century is that the world has changed. And we are all continuing to live right in the middle of this shift. We are being forced to create and adapt new [...]

Leadership Principles from the Tech World

By |March 23rd, 2021|

Molly Matthews is the CEO of Pushpay, a leading provider of donor management solutions that simplify and encourage engagement, payments, and administration, enabling customers to increase participation and build stronger relationships in their communities. [...]

Leadership and the Art of Celebration

By |November 16th, 2020|

It goes without saying that 2020 has brought an abundance of challenges for ministry leaders. We’ve had to take on challenges we never would have expected and might not have been necessarily prepared for. [...]