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Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Motivating Your Team

When we think about motivation, it’s easy to start with the wrong assumption about people. People are not unmotivated. Everyone is motivated by something—they’re just not all motivated by the same things. In fact, let’s look at a good leader’s definition of motivation: The art of leading someone...

Creative

Photography Tutorial: Capturing Baptisms

Baptisms are incredible life-change moments—they deserve to be captured well! In this video training from Life.Church, you will learn how to successfully light, shoot, and edit baptism photos that will forever commemorate an important milestone for every believer. We capture baptisms on photo wi...

Leadership

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 5: Lead Yourself

Day 5: Lead yourself. The most important person you will ever lead is yourself. We've discussed leading and growing our church, but in this new year it's important not to forget yourself in the process. One of the biggest factors in growing as leaders is your inner dialogue. When you wake up and...

Leadership

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 4: Empower Leaders

Day 4: Empower leaders. As we empower others to lead, it’s important to delegate authority not just tasks. If you delegate tasks, you will build followers (people who will do what they're told to do). If you delegate authority, you'll build leaders (people who will do what they're called to do.)...

Leadership

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 3: Give and Receive Feedback

Day 3: Give and receive feedback. As leaders, we have the responsibility to ask for and give feedback in a life-giving way. Why? Without honest and timely feedback your personal and organizational growth is always limited. Feedback is one of the most important tools for personal growth, but how d...

Leadership

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 2: Lead Through Change

Day 2: Lead through change. As you evaluate your culture and values, you may see some patterns and issues that require your church or organization to change. A common belief is that people resist change because they hate change. But I don’t think that’s true. People don’t hate change; they hate t...

Leadership

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 2

In last month’s episode , we talked about craving useful feedback and three factors that matter when you’re receiving it. This month, let’s talk about three factors that matter when you’re giving feedback . 1. When you give feedback. For some organizations, the most common time for fe...

Leadership

5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 1: Value-Driven Culture

Day 1: Create a value-driven culture. One of the most important things you can do as a leader in a new year is to evaluate your culture and your values. Your culture is a combination of what you create and what you allow. And, the number one force that shapes your culture is your values. Watch t...

Operations

Prepping and Performing Baptisms

Here at Life.Church, we want our baptism events to be meaningful and organized . That means we put a lot of thought into the planning and execution of this amazing celebration. Join us for a discussion of how we do pre-baptism planning, our baptism meeting, and the event itself at Life.Church. L...

Leadership

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 1

Without a doubt, one of the most important tools to develop in your organization is a consistent culture of feedback. Many of us want to know when we are doing something right, but we might also fear or avoid hearing feedback when we’re not. What’s interesting is that most people don’t know ho...