Guest post – Getting Ready to Cast Vision

Today I am very pleased to present this guest post from Andy Cook and our friends at the Willow Creek Association in Chicago. For any church leader getting ready to cast vision for the coming year today’s post provides practical tools and inspiration to gain the most milage from your vision-cast.   In this month’s…

Turning a Summit Registration into a Leadership Strategy

The Global Leadership Summit is coming September 29-30 to 22 sites across Canada. The extent to which this event can impact your leadership might be determined the moment you register. It’s all about intentionality. When I see a registration for the Summit show up for a group of two or three people, this typically tells…

An Urgent Call to Mobilize Your Team

Oh my. I’m sitting on my flight home from Chicago en route to Kelowna, processing all that transpired this week at the U.S. version of The Global Leadership Summit. My own heart was stirred in ways that will, I’m certain, forever mark my leadership. And I’ve renewed my resolve to see churches from across Canada…

Is Your Organization Doing 90 on Empty?

In his book Seinlanguage, comedian Jerry Seinfeld makes an insightful, and hilarious, observation about perspectives. “My parents had two constant arguments while they were driving, over how fast my father was going or how much gas was left in the tank. My father had a standard defense for either one of these. It was always,…