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Five Ways to Increase Your Leadership Capacity

Capacity—it's how much you can handle and how much you can produce. When you have your first child, you think you're maxed out. All the diapers and crying are more than you can handle. But then you have a second and a third child—and you realize you're getting better and better at the things that...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! If you’re a leader, you probably also want to improve as a speaker. Most of us see video of ourselves and get depressed because we’re not as good as we think we are. Today, we’ll discuss a few ways we can sharpen our communication skills...

Culture Q&A with Jerry Hurley

Have you seen Pastor Jerry Hurley's talk "Building Church Culture," but have questions you want answered? Hear some Q&A about common culture questions, like: • What's a high-performing church team? • How can I tell if my team is disengaged? • How can I tell if I have accidental values? • Ho...

3 Values that Lead to Evangelism

“How do I inspire my church to be involved in evangelism?” At Alpha, that’s the one question we most often hear from church leaders—and it’s an important one for a couple of reasons. First, if we mobilize our whole congregation to engage with their community, the message of Jesus will find its way...

The Timing of Feedback

Not only do you want to ask the right people the right questions, but you’ll also want to do it at the right time. I see three different times when feedback is valuable: 1) Before the event Most leaders I know look for feedback on the back end. I crave it on the front end. Each week bef...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Anticipatory Leadership

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Today, we’re going to talk about what it means to be an anticipatory leader. The lifespan of your current systems, structure, and strategy is diminishing. The way you are doing what you are doing won’t work forever—just ask Kodak, Po...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Leading Up, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, we're going to tackle our listeners' most commonly asked question: "How do I lead when I'm not in charge?" Why is this question so important? Because no organization will ever be what it could be without honest, upward co...

Leading in the Right Role

Before you step up to speak, before you have a developmental conversation, and before you cast vision, there’s one thing you have to do first. You need to clearly define the purpose. There are three important things to consider to define your purpose: • What you want people to know. Too oft...

Leadership Podcast: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 1

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In this episode, Craig will discuss the importance of urgency in success. The greatest threat to future success is current success. Success feeds pride, and pride kills urgency: nothing fails like success. In many organizations, urgency i...

Communication: The Seven Touch Points

Sometimes people ask about our communication strategy for attracting new people to Life.Church and retaining current attenders. Because people are more distracted than ever and going to church less frequently, we want to get them excited about upcoming content so they’ll come (and bring a frien...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How Effective Leaders Handle Criticism, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! In our last episode, we talked about how to minimize criticism. In this episode, let’s dive in to understanding our critics. All critics are not created equal. Some criticize just to point out problems— some point out problems s...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: The Four Essentials of Innovation

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! If you want to lead a breakout ministry, dominate an industry, change a city, help a nation, solve massive problems, or meet the needs of thousands of hurting people, you will have to learn to innovate....

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2

In last month’s episode, we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback. 1.When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for feedback is dur...

Letting Go of the Fear of Failure

The fear of failure paralyzes too many people. I’ve found one of the best gifts God can give a leader is the gift of failure. Too many of us are not doing what we feel called to do because we’re afraid to fail. As I observe the people around me, it seems the most effective have failed far more...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Secrets of Superior Decision-Making

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! The small decisions we make every day have a bigger impact on our success than a few big ones. In today's episode, let's take a look at some of the ways we can all improve in our decision-making. Our generation has a growing problem with...

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