Innovate, Don’t Imitate: 3 Essential Tips to Evade Copy-Cat Leadership

One of the best ways to develop in your leadership is to learn from other leaders. One of the worst ways is to merely copy these great leaders. Growing leaders will read about other great leaders, will seek to discern their leadership traits, even emulate their leadership skills. Copy-cat leaders do little more than mimic…

Navigating the Leadership Pipeline: Best Practices for Talent Identification

As a leader, nothing you do will ensure long-term impact like finding and developing emerging leadership talent. Effective leaders are like gold-miners, always looking for the next “rising star” on the team. Rising stars are those members of your team who are exhibiting ever-increasing passion, desire and, most importantly, results. So, how do you actually…

3 Indicators You Could Be Developing the Wrong Person

Originally posted May 29, 2012 Bill Hybels has accurately described the local church as the most leadership-intensive organization on planet earth. Therefore, for prevailing churches, leadership development is not a function of filling empty slots in an organization; rather it’s an ongoing process of identifying, equipping and releasing leaders to live out their call. But…