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The Servant Leader’s Garden: Without Change There’s No Growth

by Thorsten Grahn on January 9, 2012 in Change, Leadership, Methods, Organisational Leadership, Pepole Development, Performance, Role Model, Servant Leader, SL, Strengths and Weaknesses, Team, Training

This article focuses on some key realities about the growth of people and the Christian servant leader’s role in its facilitation. First it’s the recognition that growth in organizations is as dependent upon God as is growth in a garden. However, growth needs to be fostered; it requires sufficient room for the individual to grow but excessive growth on the part of one can constrain and deprive another. Even then the difficult process of “pruning” is required to help shape and direct people, increasing their fruitfulness. But perhaps the most uncomfortable aspect of growth is change. This is inevitable.

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7 Tips to Reduce Project Management Stress for Christian Leaders

by Mike Waddell on September 22, 2011 in Change, Church Leadership, CL, Decision, Leadership, Methods, OL, Organisational Leadership, Performance, Planning, Project Management, Stress

At some point every Christian leader will end up being called upon to lead some kind of project. They may be short and quick or they might be large and challenging. Many Christian leaders have no training or experience of running a project and that in itself can be an enormous stress factor. Whilst natural organisational ability is enormously helpful, in itself it is no guarantee of any project being both successful and low stress. This Article provide budding project managers with a practical guide

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The Christian Servant Leader’s Role Model: How to Develop People like Jesus

by Mike Waddell on August 12, 2011 in Change, Church Leadership, CL, Leadership, Methods, Organisational Leadership, Pepole Development, Role Model, Servant Leader, SL, Training

Often as Christian leaders we look to Jesus only as a spiritual role model and then we look to the world for our models of leadership. Whilst the world’s models are not always bad, many aspects of them are poor from a Christian perspective or need to be tempered with the Gospel. Because Jesus, amongst other things, is the role model for the whole of the Christian’s life we can, if we look, learn from him how to be Christ-like Christian leaders.

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10 Mistakes You Can Make When Seeking a New Pastorate

by Colin D. Buckland on August 12, 2011 in Change, Church Leadership, CL, Gifting, Recruitment, Strengths and Weaknesses

When seeking a new pastorate there are number of classic mistakes that the prospective pastor can make, they can have dire consequences for them, their family and the church. This article, born out of experience helps you ponder these mistakes in the hope of helping you make good choices in God’s service.

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10 Mistakes You Can make When Seeking a New Pastor

by Colin D. Buckland on August 8, 2011 in Change, Church Leadership, CL, Decision, Leadership, Ministry, Planning, Recruitment, Stress, Team

When seeking a new pastor for your church there are number of classic mistakes that you can make; they can have dire consequences for your church and your newly appointed pastor and their family. This article, born out of years of experience helps you ponder these mistakes in the hope of helping you make good choices in God’s service.

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