Author: Sean Cronin

3 Lessons Learned To Develop A Healthy Team Culture
by Stan Rodda: This past week has been a great week of learning for me. From staffing conversations all the way down to volunteer roles at my campus. I have learned a lot this past week. Over time I think we all let up on the gas pedal a little […]

How to Lead Through Imperfect Conditions
by Carey Nieuwhof: Let’s face it, you’d love to have ideal conditions to lead in. Who wouldn’t? And while, ideally: Your team would be perfectly motivated to achieve the mission No good team member would ever leave You’d be inspired to write every day The people you’re trying to reach […]

Tips for Smart Portable Video
.et_post_meta_wrapper Smart Portable Church AVL – Video by Portable Church Industries: Video is designed to enhance the audio of your worship experience; video helps make the audio experience better. And, since the spoken word is the most important piece of your worship experience, video acts to create interaction and connection […]

Keys for Identifying, Developing and Retaining Volunteer Leaders
by Tim Nations of Leadership Network: I was recently with a church staff in an affluent, well-educated East Coast suburb. They were trying to shift their church model from “hired staff” managing volunteers to where staff’s primary role would be developing members to lead in ministries inside and outside the […]

5 Signs You’re Becoming an Irrelevant Leader
by Carey Nieuwhof: So how relevant are you as a leader? Any idea how you’d answer that accurately? You can debate how important relevance is all day long (and many do), but the truth is irrelevant leaders make almost no impact on the people or causes around them. Why is […]

Significance, Satisfaction, & Leading Yourself to the Next Level with Shawn Lovejoy
by unSeminary: Welcome back to this week’s unSeminary podcast. I’m excited to have Shawn Lovejoy with us, the founder and CEO of Courage to Lead. Shawn has been a pastor, a church planter, an entrepreneur, and a leadership coach. He started coaching pastors in 2001. Courage to Lead is there […]

5 Actions To Restore Sabbath Rest In Our Lives
by Stan Rodda: A theme has been coming to the surface recently in my life. I have noticed it in my calls with my coach and texts with my accountability partner. That theme is…rest. I’m sure many of you have found yourself in a situation like mine. You are in […]

Rhythm and Rest
by Healthy Growing Churches: Imagine for a moment it is a few days after Labor Day later this year. Your laptop is fired up while some really good music plays in the background. You are sipping a warm cup of great coffee in the middle of a very busy week. […]

CNLP 270: Jenni Catron On How to Become a Good Public Speaker When You Never Planned To Become One, Pro Tips for Every Communicator, Why Communication Matters Even If You Never Give a Formal Talk
by Carey Nieuwhof: How do you become a sought-after public speaker when you never planned on becoming one? That’s a question Jenni Catron, who’s now a full time consultant and public speaker, had to figure out. She started at age 20 at a record label and soon discovered pitching to […]