November 7th, 2011 
alandanielson Leadership is not about position. It is not about power. Leadership is about influence. Poor leaders don’t understand this, so they spent their time flexing muscles, raising their voices and imposing their will. Good leaders do understand this truth, so they focus their attention on improving their ability to influence. Below are 10 practices you should [...]
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Tags: be a better leader, equity, influence, leader, leaders, Leadership 
1 Comment » May 9th, 2011 alandanielson Originally posted July 21, 2009. Reposted May 9, 2011. ——————————————————————— I once wrote about leadership biases and a friend named Cary Branscum asked, “How can we at least not be aware of our own bias?” I added the italics for emphasis. I don’t think Cary was necessarily asking for advice, but I thought he posed a [...]
November 16th, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 12-03-2009. Reposted 11-16-2010. ——————————————————————- Lots of people ask me practical questions about coaching small group leaders. I can’t possibly cover everything about coaching in one blog post because I don’t know everything, and because it would take too much time for you to read. However, just to provoke some thought check out the [...]
September 2nd, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted July 20, 2009. Reposted September 2, 2010. —————————————————————————— Small Groups are primarily about growing in three areas: our relationship with Christ (discipleship), our relationship with one another (community), and our relationship with the world (mission). I say “primarily” because these are the three things that most small group leaders and pastors tend to [...]
Posted in Leadership, Small Groups Tags: bias, group, groups, leaders, Leadership, small No Comments » July 13th, 2010 alandanielson Originally posted 10-20-2009. Reposted 07-13-2010 ————————————————— Leaders in the Body of Christ are targets. Our spiritual enemy wants to destroy, disgrace, and discredit our leaders so the mission of Christ is embarrassed and bogged down. Our spiritual enemy is good at what he does. Ladies, I have to confess that I don’t know the areas [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: Accountability, accountable, attack, confess, confession, leaders, Leadership, money, power, sex, weakness, weaknesses 1 Comment » November 18th, 2009 alandanielson I rented the latest Star Trek movie last night and actually found a great bit of wisdom for ministry in it. Specifically, I was moved by the conversation between Captain Pike and the young Jim Kirk right after he’d lost a bar ffight. Pike said, “Your father was captain of a star ship for 12 [...]
Posted in Leadership, Special Tags: better, Captain, dare, do, foundation, foundations, I, james, jim, Kirk, leaders, Leadership, ministry, Pike, predecessors, star, to, Trek, you No Comments » September 29th, 2009 alandanielson Five years ago I began my position at LifeChurch.tv as the LifeGroup pastor on their big campus, and I was tasked with getting a small group coaching system in place. There were only four problems: I was relatively new to the whole small group scene, our campus was running around 6000 people, I had only [...]
