Why Christian Accountability Groups Are Awkward, Unhelpful, and Often Fail by Traylor Lovvorn
I remember it well. My first “accountability group.” The church I attended during the mid-90s had just held a men’s conference and all of the men were strongly encouraged to sign up for a group where we could be gut-level honest with its other members. I was selected as a leader and remember wondering to myself how I was going to pull off leading a group of guys toward honesty and transparency without being honest and transparent myself. Read More.
Values, More Than Vision, Shape A Culture by Joshua Finley
Having a lack of vision is bad, really bad. Without vision people are stuck, literally immobilized and eventually perish. Having skill and competency is so important. Without a skillset matching your role you and those around you will be frustrated and ineffective. Having the wrong values is deadly to a culture. Read More.
Don’t Make This Leadership Mistake.
Why Leaders Need to be Always in Style. by David Witt
We’ve all been there. Do to some mix-up or poor communication we end up being either over or under dressed for an occasion. You’re wearing something too casual for a formal event (think shorts at a client meeting) or you find yourself wearing formal to a casual event (think a business suit to an after-work event.) The same thing can happen when it comes to matching your leadership style to the needs of the people you’re leading. Read More.
Necessary Endings – Dr. Henry Cloud by elevationchurchvideo
Choose Stories Over Moments by Jenni Wright
As anyone who has ever visited YouTube can tell, there are a lot of funny videos online. You could easily choose one of your favorite viral videos and show it at your church this Sunday — people will laugh and you will have created a funny moment. But what if you aimed for something deeper? What if you tried to cultivate a story? You could choose a funny (and on-topic) video by the Skit Guys or our own Johnny & Chachi that breaks the ice before you introduce a tough conversation topic. You could choose a funny (and on-topic) video that cuts the tension a little bit before you ask your audience to make a serious commitment. In each of these examples, you’re using a funny video, but you’re doing so in a way that helps you cultivate a story. The funny video is (hopefully) the start of something grander, rather than a self-contained moment of jocularity. But a funny video is just one example. What we’re really talking about is much bigger. Read More.
5 Rules For More Effective Presentations by Michael Hyatt
Presentation software can be a wonderful tool if used correctly. It can also be a dangerous distraction that interferes with communication rather than facilitating it. The line between the two is thin. Over the course of my career, I have sat through hundreds of presentations. Most of them were done with PowerPoint. Most of them are done poorly. I often think the presenter would be more compelling if he would ditch the presentation software and just speak. Because of this, I even thought of outlawing presentation software when I was the CEO of Thomas Nelson. Read More.