Emotional Maturity

Tips for Working With Teams: Angry Words

August 23, 2010

Earlier this summer I was having a conversation with someone who was wanting some tips for coaching ministry teams and in particular in contexts where there might be some stress and pressure. One of the things that I pay attention to when I’m coaching or mediating or facilitating communication on a team is the words [...]

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Prophets or Posers? Fallacy #6

August 24, 2009

This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Prophets or Posers

After a long hiatus, I’m finally getting back to the “prophets or posers” series. Because it’s been awhile I’ll share the first five prophetic fallacies with the links to their posts, followed by the sixth prophetic fallacy. Part 1: “I must have God on my side if those I disagree with are turning against me [...]

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Failing Leaders

September 26, 2008

I was going through an old magazine I got at some conference I went to and I came across this top 10 list – the top 10 ways to fail as a leader. It was in the march and april 2008 version of Rev magazine (Rev.org). This is quite the collection in my mind – [...]

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Rethinking Emotional Constipation

January 26, 2008

I was recently introduced to this phrase (emotional constipation) through the new tv show entitled, “Chuck.” While I’ve found “Chuck” quite entertaining (how could I not? It’s a show based on the Geek Squad at Best Buy!) , this phrase actually connects to a couple of the sessions at the Rethink Conference – particularly by [...]

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Leading With a Limp (Review)

January 10, 2008

I just finished Leading With a Limp by Dan Allender. Overall I liked it. It has more depth at points than a lot of Christian or Ministry leadership books, but it also isn’t the clearest presentation of servant leadership out there in my opinion. However, I wanted to share some of the basic thoughts of [...]

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Leadership Paper – Differentiation and Empowerment

December 7, 2007

I’ve dropped off the grid for a while and wanted to start up again by including the primary reason why. Today was the last day of my fall quarter for school and just turned in a research paper for my class on emotional maturity and spiritual leadership. It was fun to do. I don’t expect [...]

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Emotionally Healthy Spirituality (Review)

November 21, 2007

The primary thesis of Peter Scazzero’s book Emotionally Healthy Spirituality is that Christian discipleship and spiritual maturity includes emotional maturity if the end result is going to be loving well. Scazzero argues that Christian discipleship in recent history has offered an insufficient model of spiritual maturity. He argues that for Christian discipleship to result in [...]

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The Emotionally Intelligent Manager (Review)

November 9, 2007

Caruso and Salovey write, “The fundamental premise of The Emotionally Intelligent Manager is that emotion is not just important but absolutely necessary for us to make good decisions, take optimal action to solve problems, cope with change, and succeed.” (ix) They reiterate that emotions are data that can aid our ability to read people [...]

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Needy People

November 6, 2007

It’s probably not an earth shattering thought that a newborn baby is the epitome of dependency and neediness. They pretty much need someone else to do everything for them or else they will die. Over the past couple days I’ve had some thoughts on what it looks like to interact with “needy” people in leadership. [...]

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