by PLI Team | Nov 3, 2025 | Leadership
When you act on the vision God gives, the work quickly becomes real. Across the world, faithful leaders discover that conviction alone cannot carry them through seasons of leading change. Leaders need insight and skill to guide people through change so that the...
by PLI Team | Nov 3, 2025 | Leadership
When leaders gain conviction around the vision God gives, that conviction calls for change. Vision always reveals a gap between what is and what could be. To move toward that preferred future, something must shift—our priorities, attitude, practices, or patterns of...
by Ben Haupt | Sep 18, 2024 | Leadership
Recently I led one of our online workshops entitled “Leading Change and Living to Tell About It.” One of the most difficult parts of leading change is how lonely it can feel for leaders. There are all kinds of doubts swimming in our heads about our own inadequacies,...
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 | 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...
