by Jock Ficken | Apr 22, 2024 | Leadership
Leadership takes energy. However, if you’re like me, you don’t have a never-ending supply. Here are six places to focus your energy that will multiply your efforts. 1 Enter New Territory.Build relationships with spiritual sojourners outside your ministry context....
by Jock Ficken | Apr 15, 2024 | Leadership
Every church leader needs mentors, coaches, guides to flourish. (For short, we’ll call them mentors.) Remember this? Think of “3” as spiritual apathy and distrusting of church leaders. Think that your leadership task gets increasingly difficult with every widely...
by Jock Ficken | Mar 19, 2024 | Leadership, Navigate Cultural Change
This week I’m continuing the storytelling I began last week about my experience in leading change. I shared about two of my early seasons of leading through change, and now move into my hardest season. The Most Difficult Season! After launching a second campus,...
by Jock Ficken | Mar 12, 2024 | Leadership, Navigate Cultural Change
In the past weeks: We’ve compared remembering the past for the sake of future vision or for nostalgia. We’ve reviewed some of the common mistakes leaders make when navigating congregational change. You may be asking, does this really work in my church? I’m certainly...
by Jock Ficken | Mar 6, 2024 | Leadership
There are 5 things that will kill courage that any leader, woman or man, needs to know and confront. They’re embedded in who we are. (And they’re adapted from Heifetz, Grashow and Linsky’s book The Practice of Adaptive Leadership.) Do any of these resonate with you?...
by Jock Ficken | Feb 28, 2024 | Leadership
Last week we compared remembering the past for nostalgia or for future vision. Practically speaking, most of us are not able to pursue a compelling God-inspired future vision without first navigating some changes. Few of us aspire to lead congregational change. Many...
