This ten week series is a collection of leadership principles from the last 21 years and is made up of some of my greatest mistakes and deepest hurts. Part of the healing was wrestling with these moments and choosing to turn and press into where Jesus was taking me. As you read along, I hope you will learn and grow from my experience. Each blog post will have a section for you to look at your own life and leadership and ask some critical questions. My goal is to help you create a set of tools for your own life that will help you navigate your mistakes and learn to turn and press on toward Jesus.
You’re welcome to read these posts in any order, but my encouragement is to start with “Getting Started”.
FOLLOW ALONG
- Week 1: Getting Started: Being a primary leader is extremely difficult, and you’re going to make mistakes, I sure did. Join me as we learn from our mistakes and learn how to lead better.
- Week #2: It’s Always Sunny: In leadership, unforeseen and uncontrollable stuff will always come up. The question is do you fight against it, or do you trust the work you have done.
- Week #3: Setting Realistic Goals: As a leader, you will always have to set goals and expectations for yourself and the people you lead. But you also get to choose how you set those goals.
- Week #4: A Passive-Aggressive Recipe: No one ever sets out to be a passive-aggressive leader, but the byproduct of that kind of leadership has collateral damage that can affect everyone.
- Week #5: Expectations Are Everything: Every organization in the world, even the church, has written, followed and hidden expectations. The question is, how do we avoid the landmines?
- Week #6: God Doesn’t Live in a Box: If we are truly going to lead others, we need to understand that God doesn’t live in a box, and neither should we.
- Week #7: Other People Are Smarter Than You: Did you know that other people are smarter than you?
- Week #8: Students are students, not adults: The saying goes, “students are students, not adults” in Youth Ministry. But for us, I think the phrase should be, “adults are adults, but not every adult is the same.”
- Week #9: What you “do” is not “who” you are: Have you ever stopped to consider the question, is what you “do” who you are?… maybe it’s time that you do?
- Week 10:
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