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7 Ways to Maintain Respect as a Leader

By Church, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Team Leadership

As a leader, one of your most valuable assets is the respect of the people you are leading. If a leader is respected, people will follow him or her almost anywhere. If a leader loses the respect from the ones he or she leads, it becomes very difficult to regain that respect.

Often a new leader is given respect because of his or her position as a leader, but respect can be quickly lost due to performance. Many times, it’s the seemingly small things which cause the most damage to a leaders’s reputation.

I have found that with a few simple (some not so simple) acts help protect the respect a leader enjoys:

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October 8, 2015
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10 Characteristics of Good Leadership – an Expanded and Revised Version

By Business, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Team Leadership

It’s been a long time since I wrote the post 10 Characteristics of Good Leadership. It remains one of my most read posts, being found by readers through search engines. Shortly after I wrote the post my friend Jesse Phillips at Catalyst asked me to expand on each item. You can thank Jesse for this post.

In an expanded version, here are 10 characteristics of good leadership:

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October 7, 2015
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7 Traits of Courageous Leadership

By Church, Church Revitalization, Faith, Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Team Leadership

Recently I posted 7 Characteristics of Cowardly Lion Leadership. In that post, I discussed the characteristics of leaders who fail to have the courage needed to lead well. I thought it only fair to share the reverse post. There are many courageous leaders in our world today, as evidenced by the strong organizations that thrive even during difficult economic times.

Here are 7 traits of a courageous leader:

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September 14, 2015
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7 Characteristics of Cowardly Lion Leadership

By Church, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Leadership, Organizational Leadership, Team Leadership

You remember the cowardly lion from The Wizard of Oz don’t you? He was supposed to be the king of the jungle but he had no courage.

Sadly I see this missing in much leadership today. Let’s face it. Leading others is hard. There is often loneliness to leadership. (I wrote about it HERE.) Leadership takes great courage.

Here are 7 characteristics of cowardly leadership:

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September 11, 2015
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7 Things We’ve Learned about Reaching Millennials

By Church, Church Planting, Church Revitalization, Culture, Family, Innovation, Leadership, Youth

The statistics are staggering. The older a child gets today, the greater his or her chances are of disappearing from the church. The church must intentionally plan to reverse this trend.

Grace Community Church is built around a desire to reach people who may not have previously been interested in church. We love when people bring their friends. This vision extends to reaching the youth of our community. Along the way, we’ve learned a few things.

If the church wants to reach young people these days, here are 7 things we must do:

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September 9, 2015
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