by Ben Haupt | Jul 30, 2024 | Leadership
by Rev. Dr. Ben Haupt Recently I was talking to a former seminary student of mine who is now a pastor. After we talked about the latest with his family, I asked him how ministry was going. He began trying to tell me about all the things going on at his congregation,...
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 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?...
