Posts Tagged ‘Reggie McNeal’
The Discipline of Aloneness By Reggie McNeal
Great Leaders Practice Aloneness Great spiritual leaders experience something far more profound than loneliness. It is aloneness. Aloneness is not a trial that is endured; it is a practice built into the leader’s life. The Crucible of Wilderness There is a level of soul-making that occurs only in solitude. The scriptures call this “wilderness” and…
Read MoreWho Do You Belong To? By Reggie McNeal
Great Leaders Know Who They Belong To and Why Great leaders belong. They belong to their families, their friends, their coworkers, their mentors, and their followers. This sense of belonging provides them with both an anchor and a platform for their leadership. It shapes and informs their identity. Their relationships and the quality of the…
Read MoreMake Better Decisions By Reggie McNeal
Leaders Are Judged On Their Decisions People evaluate leaders based on the leader’s decisions, not on their intentions. Effective leaders know how to make decisions, when, and what decisions must be made. They consistently demonstrate sound judgment. While they don’t always make the right decisions, they do so often enough that they enjoy significant accomplishments…
Read MoreWhat Mission Are You On? By Reggie McNeal
Clarify Your Mission to Focus Your Leadership Knowing your mission informs and energizes your leadership. Conversely, a leader does not know his or her mission, which opens them up to wasted energy and frustration at best, or worse, leading to a debilitating sense of purposelessness. The Difference It Makes People often define themselves regarding jobs, position descriptions,…
Read MoreSelf-Development in Your Ministry Plan By Reggie McNeal
Focusing on Self-Development Lets Leaders Up for Success A leader inside leadership requires self-development to achieve greater effectiveness. Great leaders never stop developing. Three key practices—lifelong learning, building on strengths, and developing failure tolerance – show up commonly in great leaders who adopt the discipline of self-development as a life habit. Lifelong Learning Lifelong learning…
Read MoreSelf-Awareness and Why It’s Critical By Reggie McNeal
Great Leaders Pursue Self-Awareness Self-awareness is the most critical piece of information a leader possesses. I didn’t say self-absorption or self-centeredness. Ironically, these characteristics are most likely to occur in leaders who lack the critical component of self-awareness. What Is Self-Awareness? The dictionary uses various words to portray the meaning of awareness: knowledge, mindful, vigilance,…
Read MoreThe Path from Mediocrity to Greatness By Reggie McNeal
Make 2025 A Journey to Greatness There is a path we travel that moves us from mediocrity to greatness. “Deliberate mediocrity is a sin.” I can still recall hearing Elton Trueblood speak those opening words in the chapel at the seminary I attended over four decades ago. Despite his quiet Quaker spirit and diminutive presence,…
Read MoreChurch-Centric to Kingdom-Centric By Reggie McNeal
Understanding the Move from Church-Centric to Kingdom-Centric A church-centric understanding of the church’s mission has blinded us to God’s mission, which he has been pursuing since the Garden. A church-centric orientation assumes that God is primarily concerned with looking after the church and how it gets along, shrinkwrapping God’s mission down to church size. What…
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