Are you tired? Or, are you perhaps just getting burned out of what you have been doing for months or years? Maybe you are in a new leadership position and things seem never ending? I …

I see it too often – churches and non-profits continuing to depend on volunteers to get things done, but never making that leap from volunteer-based to volunteer-centered. A volunteer-based approach will let an organization get …

With the end of the year is approaching, now is the time to start preparing for the next year. We’ll be starting a new series on leadership unlike anything you’ve read here before! It will …

Bootstrapping Your Service Team
Starting a new service team is often an easy step – you see a need and you fill it. The problem that most leaders face isn’t starting, but successfully bootstrapping a service …

As a leader, it can be difficult to balance life: family, friends, work, church services, and volunteering. I learned the hard way that I am personally a workaholic – this is how I eventually came …

I was recently asked by a reader what leadership development within an affinity team, such as a college ministry, might look like. Let’s consider an approach that can be adopted by those managing a more …

Now that you have learned about the staircase method of leadership development, and have seen examples of this in action, now it is time to start taking your first steps. We want to identify three …

Building on the recent post about the Staircase Method of leadership development, let’s look at some examples of how others are successfully using this model to grow their leadership base. This will help you understand …

Do you use the “mountain method” or “staircase method” to leadership development? Growing the next generation of leaders is essential to your continued growth and the growth of your church. Without leadership development, you’ll end …

I often hear of churches that place leaders into a temporary position to fill a need. “We’ll replace them with a more permanent person later” is what they often say. The problem that can occur, …