“If you change something and no-one gets mad, you just changed something that doesn’t matter.” Dan Reiland I recently saw this quote from Dan which really got me thinking. After all, we often go into change thinking about how we can take people with us. If anything, all of the focus of leading change is […]
Hiring is one of the most important jobs you can do in your church. Firstly, you’ve got to get the personality right, if you don’t get that right, all of the rest of this is pointless. Although that’s for another blog. Different types of roles link to different ways in which people think. To achieve […]
The word ‘vision’ gets shrouded in confusion very easily. That’s because we get confused between Mission & Vision. And it’s no wonder that we get confused between the two because everyone has a different definition for it. I remember being in a meeting once and was debating what was ‘Mission’ and what was ‘Vision’. Thankfully, […]
Decision-making is a difficult endeavour, and as church leaders it’s so easy to default to hoard all of the decision-making power. After all, it can be difficult to know who should make the decision, and then trusting someone else to make that decision can be tough. However, we also know intuitively, that delegation of decision-making […]
When you’re leading a church, everyone’s got an opinion. And that should be celebrated. After all, lots of ideas and opinions are better than none. I would argue that if your church is not getting lots of differing ideas, then it’s a sign that your church has already started to decline. You need fresh ideas, […]