Oh Captain, My Captain!
Leadership is the ability to influence people toward a shared vision and mission. Great leaders guide, coach, and build teams that move purposefully toward meaningful results.
All the Feels: Sweet & Salty
Healthy teamwork embraces disagreement, shared leadership, active participation, and honest feedback to create a constructive atmosphere where teams grow stronger together.
All the Feels: Bringing Joy to Teams
Effective teams thrive when shared vision, people development, clear purpose, collaboration, and open communication work together to create alignment and momentum.
All the Feels: It Takes a Village
When teamwork is functioning well, teams experience greater satisfaction, stronger collaboration, and better decision-making. Effective teams create synergy that allows individuals to contribute their strengths while overcoming weaknesses together.
Are You Married to Teamwork or Growing Apart?
Are you married to teamwork or growing apart as of late? Just like marriage, effective teams require commitment, shared responsibility, and intentional leadership development. When individuals carry the load alone, productivity suffers and organizational effectiveness breaks down. True team leadership is not about titles or hierarchy but about shared vision, mutual respect, and collaborative responsibility. When leaders commit to team development, invest in healthy relationships, and model intentional leadership, teams grow stronger, more resilient, and aligned around a common mission.
To Team or Not to Team…That is the Question!
What would happen if you did not prioritize enhancing your own team leadership? The truth is that a lack of intentionality in leadership development can weaken your team culture, slow organizational growth, and limit long term success. When leaders invest in team training, collaboration, and communication skills, the results are expansive and deeply rewarding.
Diamond Leadership
Leadership isn’t just about vision and planning. It’s about people. This article explores how pastors and leaders can build thriving, Christ-centered teams by investing in the unique gifts, strengths, and development of their staff. With a blend of biblical insight and practical strategy, it’s a powerful reminder that teamwork is not only effective, it’s God’s design.
Building a Powerful Team: Foundational Characteristics
Perhaps one of the best examples of true teamwork is conveyed by Thomas Quick as he describes a surgical team, headed by a surgeon. The team includes surgical assistants, nurses, anesthetist, and technician. Each function is specialized and highly skilled, and each person knows that his or her success is dependent on the other members of the team. All are committed to one objective—the well being of the patient.
Compounding Impact: The Divine Origins of Teamwork
While often overlooked and undervalued, God’s social nature reveals key components of successful team-mindedness and activity. Executive leaders who consider and explore these observations can better display these insights within their own teams through collaboration, partnerships, and team-mindedness. This trickles throughout the whole organizational population, leaving positive effects inside and outside the company.
Infusing Team-Mindedness to Compound Cohesion
The quality of relationships among the executive leadership team is a primary factor in developing effective teams throughout the whole organization. Researchers Hersey and Blanchard indicate that the most significant factors in the productivity of an organization pertain to the interpersonal relationships therein. These relationships are foundational to the success of effective teams. This is a linchpin for all leaders.
OWN YOUR TEAM’S DEVELOPMENT
It is very important that we, as leaders, determine what developmental stage our team is in, not only for the purpose of knowing our responsibilities, but because your team needs to work its way through the elements of each phase. There are valuable formation skills that are attained through each stage. Wise leaders regularly reflect on those under their care, both individually and as a team.