The clock is ticking. The giving year is quickly coming to a close. Are you ready? Let’s review three simple, yet specific, steps you can take to maximize the potential for donor giving here at the end of the calendar year. Let’s get you setup and ready to roll in the NEXT calendar year! […]
How to raise more money by just saying thank you
How well are you thanking and reporting? Are you setting the standard in this important work? I want to challenge you to consider how you can grow giving by focusing first on better thanking and reporting to your donors. This is essential to growing your giving future! Here’s what the data tells us: If […]
Achieving Your Giving Goal in the Next 45 Days
This calendar year is coming to a close. Have you hit your giving goals? Creating a 45-day plan may be the push your project needs. Any purposeful gift is the result of intentional planning; it begins with God and flows from your faithful follow-through. By this point in the year, you have had a lot […]
Adjust Your Vista – The “Faith-spective” Approach to Raising Money
The right time to start raising money is never – so let’s start now! We firmly believe ministries and organizations must know where they want to go before planning how they will get there. It is our firm belief NOW is the time to take massive action. You can and will do all things […]
Four Ways You Can Do More With Less
The expectation placed upon both you and me in today’s economy is this: do more with less. To actually do more with less requires that you and I constantly reinvent ourselves and grow our own leadership capacity for our ministry organization. Here are four proven ways that I find always take me to the next […]
Leaders should be…
There’s a great deal of opinions out there about what leaders should be in their organizations. At the end of a really intense day of coaching with leaders around the country, I want to add something to this list that you may not have thought about before. Leaders should be…STORYTELLERS. I encourage you to keep […]
10 Ways to Simplify Your Work/Life
This piece was written by one of our amazing team members here at Development & Leadership Coaching, Erica Foster. Here she shares some practical and powerful gems shaped from years of working together and constantly streamlining systems so that we can focus on the most important things. She and I actually use all of […]
Train Well to Lead Well
Training your body is just as important in leadership than any other training you need to be successful. Are you training your body the way that you should? For my workout today, I have been moving a huge amount of rocks and soil that my wife has for working in the yard. I blocked an […]
Impossible Beauty
My youngest son, Nathan, just graduated high school. My wife and I have done a lot of reflecting on his years in school lately. There were hard moments for sure, but also some wonderful moments! One special one that I can recall was at his final orchestra concert in 8th grade. There were around 100 […]
How to switch from busy to effective
How do you flip the switch when you are overwhelmed and anxious with way too many things to do from being busy to being effective? I want to take you through a process that has helped me and many of the leaders we work with here at Development & Leadership Coaching. But first, you […]
Interview with Andy Andrews: The Little Things
It’s the little things that make all the difference. Andy Andrews is the author of the book The Little Things: Why You Really Should Sweat the Small Stuff. His perspective may go against culture in a lot of ways, but it makes so much sense. I enjoyed interviewing Andy and hearing why he became so passionate […]
7 Steps to Better Hiring in Ministry
Do you have the right people doing the right things in your ministry organization? Why is this so important anyway? One of my most favorite topics to talk with leaders about is how to have better hiring for ministry organizations. We have shared some basic steps over the years with leaders that have helped […]
The 100 Day Reset
Are you struggling to keep you and your team focused? You may need to hit the reset button. In fact, as leaders, data suggests that we should be hitting the reset button every 100 days. We have learned that it is very hard to sustain a group of people moving together and keep their focus, […]
How to Grow More and Better Leaders: Interview with Mark Miller
Zach Clark, Director of Development and Leadership Coaching, interviews author and Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A, Mark Miller, about his new book Leader’s Made Here and about how to help grow leaders in your organization. FIVE readers will win a copy of Mark’s new book. All you have to do is sign up […]
Do You Have the Courage to REGAIN Donors?
Many leaders struggle to prioritize their focus when it comes to raising money. The number one challenge that we see in ministries is retaining donors, and regaining those that were lost. When it comes to raising money to move ministry forward, leaders tend to gravitate toward spending their energy to recruit new donors. I want […]
11 Things I Believe About Leadership
This is a guest post from my friend and mentor Mark Miller,Vice President of High-Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A. Mark has had a profound impact on my life, and his thinking directly shapes our work at Development and Leadership Coaching. I want to live my life on purpose. As part of my on-going attempt to do […]
10 Personal Planning Questions for the New Year
Planning for the year ahead is not just for ‘Type A’ people. Planning is really part of how we do what we do as leaders. It is part of a lifestyle of leadership, and great planning starts with great questions. When it comes to planning, we encourage people to create a file, […]
Rekindling Your Fire – Overcoming Winter Burnout
Congratulations, you’ve made it through January! Are you feeling burnt out right now? Let’s keep moving forward together. Join me for our Masterclass: Rekindling Your Fire – Overcoming Winter Burnout. I will be sharing: Why this is such an insidious and pervasive problem…especially for leaders of faith-based organizations. The specific actions you can take to […]
3 Step Process for Strategic Planning
“Strategic Planning” is one of those terms that just gets thrown around. The variety of perspectives on strategic planning, its processes, and its final outcomes seem infinite. The problem for you is that you can end up drowning while trying to grab hold of this big idea while people keep saying ‘we need a strategic […]
Move Your Vision Forward by Leading Yourself
Do you know the primary thing that holds you back from accomplishing your vision? It’s also the very same thing that can really move you forward. It’s YOU. The reason why this is true so much of the time is because YOU are often the primary person that God is going to be using to […]