WESTWARD HO!
WESTWARD HO! — a phrase that brings to mind images of pioneers crossing vast western landscapes. For this Easterner, the idea of that trip can be as intimidating as it is inspiring. The grit and determination it must have taken to traverse the continent in a wagon is astounding.
And yet, the drive to forge a life in a new place, to carve out a brighter future for your family, to create a legacy that will impact generations is easy to comprehend. It is some of these same sentiments that have driven the formation of HGC.
Three Gears of Growth
In all my years of coaching leaders and churches, I’ve found that new growth only becomes possible when three separate, but interdependent gears are working together.
Basic Training
The “curse of knowledge” is the illusion that things that are so familiar to us are familiar to everyone. I realized there are some things that are too important to NOT teach. There are some concepts, ideas or training EVERY team needs to have. It’s basic training stuff.
Planting a Multiplying Church
From the very start, multiplication must be part of a church’s DNA and practiced through intentional decisions. As chief catalyst for Healthy Growing Churches, Greg Wiens works with church planters nationwide as he and the HGC team come alongside leaders to help create healthy churches that multiply. In the interview below, Greg talks […]
Trust Your Instincts
Intuition is a leadership skill that is hard, if not impossible to teach. Yet it is one that I’m constantly saying to young leaders I’m working with. “Trust your instincts.” Trusting your instincts is not abandoning reason or thoughtfulness or even not taking time to consult with others. That’s leadership […]
Don’t you just love meetings?
One of the most important exercises you can go through before meeting with your team, board or even a leader in your church is deciding what is worth thinking about. Good leaders come into every meeting with an agenda. Great leaders come into those meetings with an agenda of the […]
7 Things Motivated People Don’t Do
What habits do you need to kick to maximize motivation?
Do Successful Leaders Need Adversity?
I just heard a great sermon from my pastor Cal Jernigan on “You can’t quit your way to faithfulness.” In it he explained that we’ve become a culture of quitters when the going gets tough. We quit relationships, jobs, churches and even God. Yet the scripture is clear in Luke 11 that it costs to be a disciple of Christ and we can’t quit when adversity and challenge come our way.
Common Coaching Myths
As the popularity of coaching rises, both personally and professionally, so do the myths surrounding this resource. All Personal coaches are professionals. While many coaches are trained professionals, the rise in popularity of coaching has led to a flood of coaches entering the landscape. As a result, not all coaches […]
Crunching Becoming 5
In the last several months, if you have been talking to Greg, you’ve either heard him talk about the book, Becoming a Level 5 Multiplying Church or he’s asked you to be a beta tester for the new assessment HGC has developed to support the book. If you’ve read the book and you’re like me, you’ve probably started mentally crunching some of the concepts and wonder what other people are saying about it. Here’s a look at some of the conversations I’ve heard within our network.
