Category: Leadership
5 Addictions Pastors Need To Overcome (To Grow Their Church In the Future)
By: Carey Nieuwhof You’ve probably learned a lot about yourself in the last year. Crisis does that to you. Crisis isn’t just an accelerator, it’s a revealer, showing you some surprising things about yourself—some good, some not so good. Since COVID struck, church leaders have seen more than a few […]
The NEW Characteristics of Churches That Will Be In Decline Five Years From Now
By: Carey Nieuwhof As a leader, you’ve likely looked back at a decision another church or organization made and thought to yourself, “how could they not have seen how bad that decision was…I mean, didn’t anybody realize where that would take them?” And of course, the answer is no…they didn’t […]
10 Signs Your Organization’s Culture is Toxic
By: Carey Nieuwhof Ever wonder if your organization’s culture is toxic? Apparently, not enough leaders do. According to a Gallup survey, only 15% of employees globally are engaged at work. In America, 30% of employees are engaged, which at first sounds great. Except that means that 70% of your workforce […]
Episode 512: Success Killers
By: New Churches In Episode 512 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss what causes success to be killed and what leaders need to avoid those success killers. “What are the common things that kill the success of leaders?” In This Episode, You’ll Discover: The top three things […]
The Extraordinary Calling of Ordinary People to Lead in This Season with Ken Costa
By: UnSeminary Welcome to this week’s edition of the unSeminary podcast. We’re talking with Ken Costa, the founder of God At Work and author of four books including his latest, Joseph of Arimathea. He is with us today to talk about listening and leading in this season. Stop and listen. […]
CNLP 354: Jo Saxton on How Leaders Fall Into Burnout, How to Come Back from It and on How to Reduce Anxiety and Stress on Your Team
by Carey Nieuwhof: “You have one body, and your leadership lives in it.” Jo Saxton had a lot to overcome from her childhood, and it caused her to become a driven leader in her thirties. Eventually, her drivenness led her into a burnout so deep she ended up in the […]
Redeploying Staff or High-Level Leaders During COVID-19
Home > Blog > Redeploying Staff or High-Level Leaders During COVID-19 Redeploying Staff or High-Level Leaders During COVID-19 By New Churches Team COVID-19 has meant lots of change for your church. One issue you may be facing is redeploying staff. So, how do you reassign and redeploy staff and high-level […]
What Church Leaders Are (Really) Thinking in 2020
By: Carey Nieuwhof As much as you wish things were getting easier in church leadership, they don’t appear to be heading in that direction. If anything, things are more complicated than they were a month ago. And infinitely more complicated than they were a year ago. My guess is you’ve […]
Episode 501: Thriving in Leadership
By: New Churches In Episode 501 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Ed discuss what thriving looks like and the importance of spiritual and emotional health. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: How church leaders are seen as second and third respondersWhy creating sabbath rhythms are important Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches): […]
The Thing That Scares Me the Most
By: Brandon A. Cox The Thing That Scares Me the Most .et_post_meta_wrapper Know what really scares me as a pastor? It’s that my words are going to cause people to take action. People will, based on a sermon, based on a tweet, based on an interaction, or a counseling session […]