Tag: personal

  • 5 Characteristics of Churches that Change

    5 Characteristics of Churches that Change

    Over the past 7 years working with the Unstuck Group I’ve consulted with all kinds of churches. Small churches, large churches, single site churches and multisite churches, churches that are denominationally entrenched and non-denominational churches, urban churches, rural churches and yes suburban churches. Many of those churches have gone on to get unstuck and produce…

  • 4 Reasons Why People Don’t Change

    4 Reasons Why People Don’t Change

    People always want to change their circumstances, but they never want to change their lives. But everything gets better when we get better. Families get better when fathers and mothers get better. Students get better when educators get better. Organizations get better when leaders get better. And churches get better when church leaders get better.…

  • Join a Leadership Coaching Network

    Join a Leadership Coaching Network

    My current Leadership Coaching Network is coming to a close and I’m getting ready to launch a new network this spring for up to 12 church leaders! We’ll be meeting six days over six months beginning in April. This is a coaching experience built around practical systems and tools that will help you take your…

  • Leadership Lessons from a Family Vacation

    Leadership Lessons from a Family Vacation

    Like many families this summer, we did a family vacation. Lisa and I had the opportunity to take the kids (all 4 of them now) for an incredible week in the mountains! Like any leader, it’s tough for me to just “turn it off.” So…upon reminiscing, here are five leadership lessons that parallel our time…

  • 5 reasons why you should participate in a leadership coaching network

    5 reasons why you should participate in a leadership coaching network

    There are all kinds of reasons why you should participate in a leadership coaching network, but here the five that standout to me! 1. Structured Learning Pathway Learning and growth just don’t happen. It’s an intentional process. Participating in a coaching group will push you to systematically work through leadership concepts, organizational systems, reading assignments,…