by Nick Blevins | Feb 18, 2019 | Leadership, Posts
Rethink Leadership is an event for senior leaders in the church that’s designed by senior leaders. Carey Nieuwhof helped create the event, along with the team at Orange, and it runs alongside The Orange Conference. The fact that Carey Nieuwhof is behind it is...
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by Nick Blevins | May 15, 2017 | Leadership
Let me be clear right up front that I still have a lot to learn in terms of productivity. I certainly have not arrived. I have simply learned how to be more productive from many others, who, over the years, have shared the tips, tools, and practices they use. People...
by Nick Blevins | Aug 22, 2016 | Leadership
In ministry, it’s important to plan for growth in order for growth to be possible. However, the challenges of ministry are so great and so demanding it makes it hard to do anything but focus on managing the present. Maybe you haven’t experienced that, but...
by Nick Blevins | Jun 29, 2016 | Leadership
How To Delegate In Episode 4 of the Family Ministry Podcast, I talked with Jim Wideman. In the midst of our conversation, Jim referenced the book 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by John Maxwell (my link). He said you could read the first law (Law of the Lid) and...
by Nick Blevins | Jun 6, 2016 | Leadership
Let’s face it. No matter how good of a leader we might be, we all frustrate the people we lead. I sure do. Not on purpose, though. It’s the reality of being a flawed human being who tries his best but will always have weaknesses. Like you, I’ve tried...
by Nick Blevins | May 18, 2016 | Leadership, Strategy
Have you ever been confused by the terms mission, vision, strategy, and values? Join the club. In the first post in this series, I introduced this topic and wrote about Mission. In the second post, I wrote about Vision and the role it plays. In the third post, I wrote...
by Nick Blevins | May 11, 2016 | Leadership, Strategy
Have you ever been confused by the terms mission, vision, strategy, and values? Join the club. In the first post in this series, I introduced this topic and wrote about Mission. In this post, we’ll talk about Vision. Many leaders are understandably confused...
by Nick Blevins | May 9, 2016 | Leadership, Strategy
Have you ever been confused by the terms mission, vision, strategy, and values? Join the club. I’m certainly no expert on the subject. But, in this series of posts, I’ll share my thoughts on each one along with their distinctions and how they can be used...
by Nick Blevins | Apr 20, 2016 | Leadership
The 5 Whys is a technique designed to help someone get to the root cause of a problem or issue. It was formally developed by Sakichi Toyoda and used in the Toyota Motor Corporation. By asking “Why?” 5 times, they believed the nature of a problem would...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 14, 2016 | Children's Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
In a previous post, I talked about the importance of being a habitual learner in relation to leading a growing family ministry. It is the most common attribute I see in great leaders. One of the ways I wrote that we can become habitual learners is to build it into our...
by Nick Blevins | Mar 7, 2016 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
As everyone who works in ministry knows, it’s hard. You never get it all done and every week there are urgent things that have to be balanced with the important things. In the midst of it all it’s easy to fall into the trap of simply managing what we have...
by Nick Blevins | Jan 25, 2016 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
In the previous post I wrote about our plan for developing Coaches within our family ministry team. Coaches are volunteers who lead teams of leaders, as defined in our leadership pipeline. Part of our plan for developing Coaches involves meeting with them regularly...
by Nick Blevins | Jan 21, 2016 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
In a previous post I wrote about the importance of establishing a volunteer leadership pipeline in our ministries. Leadership pipelines provide a clear leadership path and a structure the entire ministry can be built on. As I network and work with other churches...
by Nick Blevins | Nov 19, 2015 | Children's Ministry, Family Ministry, Leadership, Student Ministry
Every ministry leader wants more volunteers, but what if we are a barrier to making that happen? Moses was a barrier to leading the Israelites until his father-in-law offered wise counsel. The disciples neglected their primary responsibilities until they shared...
by Nick Blevins | Oct 26, 2015 | Family Ministry, Leadership, Strategy
A decade ago when I left the “business world” to jump into full-time vocational ministry I did it for two reasons. I loved the time I spent volunteering at church more than the time I spent at work. I believed many churches had tons of unreached potential,...
