Self-compassion is a key to emotional and relational well-being, especially while we are in the change process. In our last podcast, we talked about the importance of disrupting our autopilot when it …
Disrupting Your Autopilot
To change the way you show up in a system, you have to learn to disrupt your autopilot. Change is not just a set of ideas, deep desire, or good intentions. It is a set of practices and in this …
Seeing Yourself in the System
Anxious people do what anxious people do. In the last podcast, we talked about how leaders do two things - they lead toward a vision and they manage the anxiety that shows up as they work to get deep …
Leading Change and Managing the Resulting Anxiety
Leaders both lead change and manage the resulting anxiety in order to get commitment to a shared vision. To fully understand how leadership functions, you must understand that it takes place within a …
Building Trust for Change Leadership
Every congregation, every organization is facing the option of deep change or slow death. Context matters in achieving your mission and we are living in the midst of a paradigm shift that is still …
Learning to Lead: Three Key Components
When leaders talk about learning to lead, they often start with learning information—stuff we need to know about in order to demonstrate a certain level of skill or expertise. For church leaders, that …