Posts Tagged ‘Al Lopus’
7 Christian Workplace Trends in 2025 By Al Lopus
Significant Christian Workplace Trends You Need to Know How can a Christian workplace survive and thrive in an era of increasing secularization and rapid change? As we enter 2025, Christian workplace leaders face an evolving landscape shaped by technological advancements, cultural shifts, and the lingering challenges of an increasingly secularized society. Christian organizations must navigate…
Read MoreMentoring Female Christian Leaders By Al Lopus
Mentoring Lessons and Insights What would it look like if your organization intentionally invested in mentoring women leaders to fulfill their God-given call? For Christian business owners and ministry leaders, building a flourishing culture means tapping into both men’s and women’s unique gifts and leadership potential. In a recent conversation on the Flourishing Culture Leadership…
Read More5 Key Steps to Cultural Transformation By Al Lopus
Create a Transformation in Your Workplace Culture What transformation happens when an organization prioritizes its people just as much as its mission? Can transforming workplace culture truly lead to measurable success? At 4KIDS, the answers to these questions are a resounding yes. Through innovative leadership and a commitment to faith-based values, this organization has redefined…
Read MoreA Flourishing Culture By Al Lopus
Finding the Way to a Thriving and Flourishing Culture “Hope International had a purpose-driven and highly engaged culture,” says Peter Greer, CEO. “But I sensed that it was diluting rather than reproducing as we entered a season of accelerated growth. We recognized the importance of culture, but we didn’t know how to accurately gauge it—or…
Read MoreBuild Greater Organizational Trust – Now By Al Lopus
Trust Makes or Breaks an Organization’s Culture If you do not cultivate the kind of growing trust that produces enjoyment, unity and productivity, then your organization will slowly, steadily weaken from within. The alternative is a clear, logical path for growing a vibrant, grounded kind of organization that is now helping to transform hundreds of…
Read MoreBuild Your Culture on Trust By Al Lopus
Three Commitments to Create and Sustain Trust At Best Christian Workplace Institute (BCWI), we have found three commitments outlined in Robert Shaw’s book, Trust in the Balance, Lead with Character In order to earn organizational trust, the leadership needs to fulfill their obligations and commitments. Promises and good intentions are not enough; trust requires…
Read MoreCLA Member Spotlight: Best Christian Workplaces Institute
Christian Leadership Alliance Founder’s Council Member: Best Christian Workplaces Institute Trusted by over 900 ministry organizations, churches, and Christian-owned businesses since 2002, Best Christian Workplaces Institute (BCWI) helps its ministry clients create healthy, flourishing workplaces that lead to increased ministry effectiveness. As a result, a growing number of BCWI clients continue to live out the…
Read More5 Keys to Hiring Wisely
By Al Lopus As a leader, I realized selecting the best people to join our team was the most important part of my job. Ultimately, it’s the people on the team that make or break our ability to meet our mission and goals. BCWI’s research has proved that it is even more important and difficult…
Read MoreHow the Best Christian Workplaces Engage Emerging Leaders
For the past 10 years, Al Lopus, as president and cofounder of the Best Christian Workplaces Institute (BCWI), has been conducting the Best Christian Workplaces Survey. This 58-question, broad-based human resources survey compiles data on people practices and the way they’re experienced in Christian workplaces. Lopus and his organization have surveyed over 500 different Christian…
Read MorePart 2: The Path to Organizational Health By Al Lopus
As I discussed in Part I of The Path to Organizational Health, our research at Best Christian Workplaces Institute validates four steps in “The 4-D” cycle an organization can take to move towards organizational health. Those steps include: Discovery (appreciating and valuing) Dream (envisioning) Design (co-constructing the future) Destiny (learning and empowering to sustain the…
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