Adapted from Leading Skillfully Throughout your leadership journey, you will experience conflict. The joining together of different personalities and leadership styles will inevitably result in different plans and opinions. Wherever people are involved, there will be conflict. People’s differences, flaws, and insecurities will spark frustration and tension. Trying to escape these unpleasant stressors will only deepen the frustration and heighten

Adapted from Leading Team Projects When completing team projects, it is critical that the project leader organizes the team for success. A project leader acts as a coach, guiding a team toward a project objective. In achieving a project objective, the team achieves victory. By fulfilling the following coaching functions, the project leader can blaze a path towards victory. We have identified 15 coaching functions, and here, we discuss three of them.

Adapted from Leading with Teams When leading with teams of people, focus can easily drift. Each team member brings his or her own ideas, thoughts, and opinions to the table. These contributions are highly valuable, but if they are not connected, the team will not act as a unit. Instead of working jointly with one unified focus, the team works separately, travelling in different directions. For a team to work effectively, a leadership team must have

Adapted from Leading with Mentoring Leaders are called to build others up and to help others grow. We are meant to see the potential in each other and guide each other in harnessing it. Mentoring relationships are necessary for both leaders and the people that they guide; however, mentors must begin these relationships with the right intent and vision. Before mentors can complete the investigation, initiation, impartation, imitation, and iteration

Adapted from Leading by Communicating During challenging times, leaders can find strength in relying on those around them. Yet, to enlist the help of others during crises, leaders must first cultivate strong relationships with those who would follow them. One-to-one communication can act as a powerful tool in building and strengthening relationships, primarily because it allows one individual to directly invest in another individual’s life. The

Adapted from Leading with Outreach As we continue with our daily routines, we may worry that we are not fulfilling the Great Commission. Sometimes, we may feel that our faith gets buried beneath our worldly responsibilities. Yet, we know that as we toil, more unsaved souls become lost in darkness. Evangelists vs Witnesses To understand our role in the Great Commission, we must distinguish between evangelists and witnesses. Evangelists possess a gift

Adapted from The Leader’s Balanced Life As our lives grow busier and busier, we can become too focused on our role inside the workplace and not focused enough on our role outside the workplace. If we are not careful, our 9 to 5 job becomes our 24-hour obsession, leaving little time for our friendships. The Spiritual Call for Relationships To achieve a balanced life, we must recognize that our relationships should not suffer because of our career.

Adapted from The Leader's Potential In our culture, we often find ourselves comparing ourselves to others. We look at our gifts and capabilities and deem them unworthy because they do not fit the mold of the leaders we admire. In the process, we ignore the strengths that we possess and disregard the diversity of leadership styles. If we are to meet our potential as leaders, we must stop believing the misconception that all leaders are the same. There

Adapted from The Leader's Calling As Christian leaders, we must have confidence in our calling, but often, we find ourselves slipping into doubt. Sometimes we doubt the situations, wondering if people will be willing to support and follow us. God has given us a vision, but what if that vision seems too extreme to become a reality? We must trust that God will equip us to accomplish what He has set out for us to accomplish. It is from this trust that

Adapted from The Leader's Example As a leader, who are you supposed to be? The world will offer some guidance, shaping and fashioning you into its own image of leadership. You must wear a suit. Smile and look the part. Be charismatic, creative, assertive—a self-starter and the life of the party.  Yet, what should you do when you learn of corrupt dealings within your organization? What should you do when you learn that your church elders have