Ego Trap #2: “If I don’t stay on top of their work, mistakes will be made.” Translation: “I’m a control freak.”
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Convincing the Big Kahuna…How important “he” is to implementing coaching:
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Leadership, when it’s good and strong and true, isn’t about ego. It’s about stepping boldly into a larger story, and inviting other people to come along with you. It’s about surrendering your life to a Power and a purpose greater than yourself, and serving those who have chosen to follow you into that great adventure. It’s most definitely not about you. But Ego is a subtle demon…
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What’s the fuel that runs your life? What actually “powers” you into action day to day? I’ve become convinced that there are only two primary fuels for the human soul:

Fear. And Love…
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Anyone who’s worked on a church leadership team knows the spiel about team values: Here’s what we believe is important; here are the behaviors and attitudes we promote in our organization. Although often borne out of a noble desire among the leaders, these “organizational values” often fail to enlist or even inspire the people within the organization, and are typically perceived as an attempt to control them rather than free them up, a vaguely threatening reminder that “Big Brother is watching.” So why does this happen?
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In the Spring of 2007, I asked for “Coaching” to be put on the agenda a week prior to our next senior pastoral staff meeting. Then I got really scared. My colleagues on the senior staff knew I was into this “new coaching thing,” but it was still just my thing that I had been getting trained on and theorizing about a lot. I was fearful that they would not take me seriously. But then something wonderful happened…
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In coaching we talk a lot about honoring the client’s agenda–in other words, letting them lead the way forward. And that’s good, but any practiced coach will tell you, it’s not complete. Your own heart–the best part of your compassion and hope–has much to say about each person you coach. Here’s why you should listen…
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Whether you know it or not, rank is a powerful force on your leadership team. Here’s what every leader needs to know about rank and how it works.
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Coach & Pastor Brian Rhen shares the first of 12 installments on how to develop lay coaching leaders in the church.
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How do we explain coaching to ministry leaders when the term coaching is already used within churches to mean so many different things?
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What happens when you define leadership in terms of the church organism rather than just in terms of the organization? Suddenly everything changes.
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Lately, I’ve been profoundly struck by a particular way that leaders unintentionally sink their own ship when it comes making their dream come true–even dreams that they fully believe are from God…
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