Welcome to season four of our popular White Board Wednesday leadership resource. In today’s episode, John Messer our Leadership Development Catalyst walks us through the process of transitions in an organization. What phase of change is your church or organization experiencing now? What strategies can you use to help your people navigate this phase of change? What are your favorite …
Finishing Well
Transitions are a part of life. We transition from the womb to the world, from childhood to adulthood, from educational pursuits to the workforce, from the workforce to retirement and from life to death. Through faith in Christ, Christians will celebrate the transition from death to life! For those God calls to full-time paid ministry (he calls everyone into ministry …
Adaptive Leadership
A Note from Luminex: This morning’s blog post is a reprise of a post originally published on May 15, 2017. Enjoy! Creativity and innovation are critical skills for leaders in the 21st Century. Many organizations are investing in creativity and building teams to work on innovative processes and products. And for good reason: Creativity fuels growth, improves existing ministry and processes, and …
Finishing Well
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Rick Veenstra talks about the importance of finishing well as a Christian leader to ensure a smooth and positive transition in your ministry. Rick Veenstra is nearing the end of his journey as a vocational Christian leader, having served as a pastor for over 40 years. To help prepare for the next chapter of his life, …
Reactive Management to Adaptive Leadership
Mike Gafa presents some steps to move a consistory from managing to leading in today’s Whiteboard Wednesday. Everyday brings a new crisis for church leaders. In turn, too many consistories find themselves playing “leadership whack-a-mole” as they attempt to solve the latest crisis. Similarly, leadership in the church can sometimes feel this way, but this is not a good method …
Institutional Management to Missional Leadership
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa shares a few thoughts about the importance of missional leadership for moving a consistory from managers to leaders. To move from managing to leading, we must pull away from institutional management and embrace missional leadership. What do we mean by “institutional management?” Institutional management encompasses the daily operations of a church – staff management, …
Spans of Care
On today’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Doug McClintic describes “spans of care” in a congregation, and how this system of taking care of one another helps to strengthen and start churches. The spans of care in your congregation are what holds a congregation together. Through research and experience, there is an ideal ratio between how many people you have in your congregation …
Faith Based Leadership
For this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Mike Gafa discusses how we can move a consistory from managers to leaders. We achieve this by moving away from fear and fact based management and moving towards faith based leadership. To move from managing to leading, your consistory must embrace faith-based leadership while steering clear of fear and fact based management. What does it …
Leadership Community
For today’s Whiteboard Wednesday- Doug McClintic describes how we can cultivate a leadership community in order to facilitate leadership development. Interested in forming a leadership community in your church? Start by holding a monthly leadership meeting to work toward a shared vision, and intentional skill development, as you huddle ministry leaders together. The best approach is to invite all …
Deep Change or Slow Death
For this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, we have Rick Veenstra, the Regional Executive / Leadership Development Catalyst for the Great Lakes Region share with us today on how to make deep and impactful changes in our Church organizations. Christian churches, like many other organizations in the United States, have essentially two options: We can either engage in deep transformative change, or …