Ideas for September
Well, for most of us, the new school year has officially begun! I hope you are off to a good start! I […]
Tag: leadership development
What Are Your Standards?
What are your standards for your leaders?
Do you have any?
Do they know what you expect?
Have you set the bar to high? To low?
On Teaching Students to be Healthy
We’ve reached Day 4 — the final day — of our week of leadership training with our new student leaders. Tomorrow […]
The Dark Side of Leadership
When leaders fall it’s not pretty. When Christian leaders fall it seems even worse. The pain. The hurt. The confusion. The impact. […]
Open Source Leadership
Student leaders are back and training is in full swing. There is a mix of nerves and excitement, anxiety and anticipation in the air as we pray and prepare for new and returning students to populate campus.
As the planning season of our ministry preparation for the upcoming year is coming to a close, my thoughts are focused on how we do what we’ve been called to do — better than we’ve ever done it before.
Increasingly, those of us in ministry leadership are being pulled away from the old, top-down, style of leadership in order to be effective and meet the needs of this generation.
Students want in.
On every level of the process and experience.
And they won’t stand for it any other way.
Making The Most Of It
With another blogathon starting tomorrow, I thought it might be good to talk about how we can make the MOST of our few […]
Creating Space [For What’s Necessary]
Well, we’re nearing the end of July and plans for the upcoming year are starting to take final form. I’m not sure what this process has been like for you, but for us, there have been a lot of changes, edits, additions and subtractions from the model of ministry we were serving out of last year.
In a lot of ways I think our ministry models need to be in a constant state of flux, always with the ability to change in order to better meet the needs of the students we serve, as it seems most appropriate and feasible.
Owning Your Mistakes
I hate to make mistakes. OK. Maybe it has less to do with actually making the mistakes, and more to do with […]
Moving Students Into Small Groups
In my post yesterday I talked about the disturbing trend among teens away from involvement in small groups. There’s so much about […]
Practicing What You Preach
Do you ever struggle to practice what you preach? I do. As people who work with college students we often find ourselves […]