These ideas will help you practice excellence with email, not waste people's time, be more effective as a communicator, and send emails people will actually read!

I hate the idea of "time management." I don't have enough time to manage, I need it to be maximized! Here are 3 ways to make your week more productive. 

Any time you find yourself in a new role, resist the urge to be impressive or make a splash. Your #1 job is to be seen as trustworthy. Trust earns long term influence. Here are 3 keys to building trust your first day in a new position...and every day after that too!

The adage is true that, "Leaders are readers." It is one of the ways I expose myself to new ideas and challenging thoughts. In all of the leadership books I have read there are 3 that have stood above the rest in the scope of their impact in my life.

I am not wired to function without rest. "Burning the midnight oil" or "burning the candle at both ends" are great metaphors, but they do not make leaders effective over the long haul. I want to explore 4 reasons why every leader needs to build rest into their calendar.

Regardless of our good intentions or best laid plans, sometimes leaders just mess stuff up. The most dangerous thing a mistake can do is cause us to stop trying new or innovative things. Since mistakes are inevitable, I want you to learn from them.

I love our church staff. Over the past year or so I have been working to get our team prepared for a new season of growth. Having bumped up against a growth barrier for a few years, I had to look to some larger churches for help. I discovered one of the most challenging truths of my ministry.

The holidays are approaching. More than any other time of the year, people feel generous. I want you to leverage their feeling around a worthy cause. Rally your team around a cause this Christmas that is outside your organization and helps someone who can never help you in return.

Every leader has struggles. It is a part of what reminds a leader that they are also human. No matter how successful or seasoned, leaders have at least a handful of nagging problems. One common denominator of leadership struggles is that leaders are embarrassed to admit them. For one reason or another we feel like these issue may disqualify us from leading. We work on them, we cover them up, but we rarely confess them

There are unspoken issue leaders face. When we are thrust into the leadership landscape we are often left to discover some important truths on our own. While some of this is life, some of it is also unfair.  Today I want to unpack a few essentials that most leaders do not talk about. While they often go undiscussed, these truths are always felt.