Tag: development

  • Take Someone With You

    Take Someone With You

    Take someone with you. It’s the most overlooked and easiest way to develop people. I’ve never worked with or consulted with a church that believed they had enough leaders. In fact, most churches are looking for some off the shelf content or course they can take people through and then call them leaders. Content and…

  • 5 Core Issues that will Fuel Growth in your Church in 2018

    5 Core Issues that will Fuel Growth in your Church in 2018

    Stuckness is no respecter of the “brand” or “flavor” of a church. All kinds of churches across America are stuck. Large churches, small churches, old churches, new churches, Baptist churches, Methodist churches, Nazarene churches, Presbyterian church and even non-denominational churches are stuck. At the Unstuck Group we’ve literally worked with hundreds of churches and one…

  • Top Posts of 2017 #5 “Why Leading by Example doesn’t Work”

    Top Posts of 2017 #5 “Why Leading by Example doesn’t Work”

    We’ve finally made it into the top 5 in this year’s countdown and it starts off with another popular post about team dynamics and leadership development. Leading by example sounds like the right thing to do, doesn’t it? After all thousands of pages written on leadership, by leadership experts can’t be wrong can they? The…

  • A Multisite Leadership Conversation

    I recently had a conversation with the Unstuck Group about multisite church leadership and here are a couple of highlights from the conversation: Caroline: When leading a multisite church, what is the most important leadership tool to carry with you? Paul: Hands down, your culture. You reproduce what you are, not what you think you are or wish…

  • The Power of Showing Up

    The Power of Showing Up

    There is incredible power in simply showing up. This is true in parenting, it’s true in coaching, it’s true in teaching, and it’s true in leadership. Over the years I’ve observed many church leaders who overestimate the potential of a pivotal moment and underestimate the power of faithfully showing up every day. When you show…