2 Big Leadership Questions you Probably aren’t Asking

May 16, 2017

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I want to thank my dad, David Alexander, for this guest post. Retired from a career with the Department of Defense in which he oversaw billions of dollars of government assets and hundreds of employees, today he enjoys fishing, his grandkids, and driving my mom crazy! Love you dad, hopefully some of your leadership experience rubbed…

Leading with Authority without Abusing Authority

Jul 31, 2016

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Paul Alexander

in Leadership, Staffing

You don’t have to look very hard in society to find examples of people in authority abusing their authority. Unfortunately in the church where you’d expect things to be different it seems like it rarely is. In a recent conversation with a church leader they asked me if they really had to be a jerk…

How to Speed up Decision Making at your Church

Jul 12, 2016

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Paul Alexander

in Leadership, Staffing, Testimonial

After working with over 25 churches across the country this past year, I realized there is a common challenge that growing churches face. It’s a challenge that frustrates leaders, slows progress in critical areas, and causes an undercurrent of strain between teammates. This challenge is lack of clarity around decision making. When churches are small,…

5 Keys to Developing Young Leaders in Your Church

Nov 17, 2015

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Paul Alexander

in Leadership, Spiritual Formation, Staffing

It seems like everywhere you turn lately some national church leader is writing about the bleak future of the US Church due to younger generations leaving. Well, recently I spent some time at a place that made me really hopeful about the future of the church in America. This past weekend I had the opportunity…

7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Church Leaders

Jun 14, 2015

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Paul Alexander

in Leadership, Staffing

It’s much easier to identify poor leadership in others than it is in yourself. We have a tendency to judge our leadership based on our intentions and the leadership of other based on the results. An old Russian Proverb says it this way, “The eye cannot see the eye.” Over the years I’ve had the…

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