How do you use goals and milestones to actually change people’s behavior and move them toward action?
Core Values: Your Most Powerful Tool
A defined list of Core Values is one of the most underutilized tools at your disposal. Are you effectively utilizing this powerful leadership tool?
Grow Your Giving Network
How do you grow your network? How do you grow your reach? How do you grow the number of people you are talking to about getting involved and advancing your vision for your ministry?
Demystify Your Vision
You are created, called, and equipped to influence others to see the vision, engage in it, and invest in it.
Leading From The Middle: Guest Post by Mark Miller
The present often traps leaders in the middle. If you’re not careful, you’ll not be leading anything. You’ll just be managing the present.
Demystify Your Future
If you are a leader, someone that God has placed in a position of influence, you have people following you. You are helping them move toward a vision, a desired outcome for their lives, or the impact of your ministry organization.
To Leaders Who Want to Raise More Money
The answers have nothing to do with working harder or launching new programs.
How To Lead The Most Difficult Person In Your Life
There’s a trend in the questions I’m asked by many of the leaders I admire most.
Stop Being Overwhelmed By Fundraising
If you are anything like me and most other ministry leaders, you are focused on how you can move things forward. But, we struggle to keep all the plates spinning and the pressure seems to increase the close we slide to December.
How Fundraising Holds You Back
Your opportunities for impact exceed your giving, but what really holds you back?
How To Ask For Money Without Hating Yourself
This is one of the most important things I could ever share with you. I’ve noticed that most leaders hate the idea of having to ask people for money.
While there are a few folks who have chosen “fundraising” as their profession, most leaders, if they are honest would choose to move the work of raising money off their plate if they could.
5 Reasons Why Most Ministries Struggle
Why do most ministries struggle? The answers may surprise you.
Don’t Let Analysis Hold Your Vision Hostage
There is a simple way to gain insight from data without paralysis by analysis.
How To Raise Money for the Impossible
God has put huge possibilities in front of you but it all seems impossible. Now what?
3 Ways To Overcome Your Leadership Limits
The days are just packed. You carry big responsibilities and a long list of tasks and projects. How do you deal with the challenges of today which shift with the unannounced visit of an unexpected challenge, mishap, or even good idea. You may feel that you’ve hit your leadership limit and you’ve just gotten started […]
Is Your Vision Missing Something?
I asked Jim this hard question. “Most people would say, that by God’s grace you’ve accomplished a great deal in your nearly 20 years of leadership at this ministry. It would be easier to not do this. Even if we move forward together, trusting God, it’s still entirely possible that this could fail. Why are […]
2 Ways To Overcome Pushback in Setting Goals
All leaders moving a ministry forward in strategic change will face resistance to the need to set goals and measure effectiveness. Most people in an organization find it easy to identify what is needed: “We need to raise money, $50,000 to be exact, to implement this program.” But, the day you start using numbers for […]
Get Momentum Before the Year Ends
God has placed numerous people around you, in your community, that could have a tremendous impact on the vision for your ministry.
So, why aren’t they?
Take Annual Giving to the Next Level
I frequently receive calls from leaders asking for input on their annual fund letters. The questions usually center around the tactics of letter writing, subject lines, social networking, and email blasts. While taking specific steps to ask for annual giving is important, it’s not what ultimately determines your success in raising funds for your ministry.
How to Raise More Money in the Next 90 Days
One of the areas I’m most often asked about is how to raise more money. I put together a short and free video teaching on a specific method you can use to unleash new momentum and learn how to raise more money in the next 90 days.
