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The Secret to Creating a Highly Motivated Team

Leadership isn't a sprint - it's a marathon. It is easy to manufacture motivation that lasts for a weekend - but how can we create teams that have a perpetuating motivation that endures over months, years or decades? Carey Nieuwhof is founding pastor of Connexus Church in Ontario, and a frequent blogger on leadership within a Christian context. The lessons he teaches are applicable for church, community groups and business. For more from Carey, visit http://careynieuwhof.com. One of the most...

Four Imperatives for Wise Stewardship of Time

One of the most common struggles we hear from leaders is their battle with time. Faced with an ever increasing amount of opportunities and decisions to make, it is tempting for the urgent to replace the important in our lives. In world that is speeding up - how can we maintain our focus and use our time wisely? Eric Geiger has written a timely article on how to steward our time well as Christian leaders. As a Vice-President at LifeWay Christian Resources, and a pastor Clearview Baptist Church, ...

Lawnmowers and Tall Poppies - The Leadership Challenge of New Zealand

There's a lot to love about our fine country - beautiful scenery, the Kiwi can-do attitude and a mighty national rugby team that epitomises excellence. Trinity Leadership Foundation is proudly grounded in the New Zealand culture, and has a passion to see Aotearoa transformed by highly effective Christian leaders. New Zealand has a particular cultural quirk, however, that leads to a unique challenge all Kiwi leaders must face. It's everywhere - in schools, churches, rugby clubs and boardrooms...

Four Distractions in Meetings and How to Fight Them

Meetings can take up a large part of a leader's life. Done well, a meeting will provide clarity and direction for the action ahead. Done poorly, a meeting will waste time, distract and lead to a frustrated team. In our experience, most leaders can benefit from learning how to run better meetings. Eric Geiger, a Vice-President at LifeWay, offers some excellent advice for leaders to consider. He diagnoses the biggest distractions in meetings, and then provides some helpful suggestions for making ...

The No Complaining Rule

Leaders will always have to face negativity - it's part of the job. Although we cannot control other people and the negativity they may bring, we can control the environments and cultural norms we model - to help transform their negativity into a more constructive attitude. Leadership guru Jon Gordon - who has worked with Fortune 500 companies, NBA, NFL and NHL teams, school districts and more - has a fascinating article about dealing with negativity. His engagement with complaining, and his pr...

The Two Starting Postures of Innovation

The past few months has been full of analysing screeds of data and writing pages of explanation for my thesis on innovation and leadership. All up, I interviewed over 30 leaders and explored survey data from hundreds of participants from a range of organisations. I'll share some of the findings over the next few weeks - but I want to start by discussing one of the most startling results I uncovered. Across all the participant surveys, there was a constant statement that received one of the low...