Shepherds Advantage Leadership Podcast

When the culture of your Team is weak, you must bring in an abundance of heavy, precise rules, processes and systems. But a strong culture allows autonomy, empowerment, and development among your people. A strong culture equals TRUST. A weak culture equals DISTRUST! The ultimate question is “How do we build a strong culture in […]

In order to live a life that is all in you need to think like a winner! One of the key differences between people who win in life and those who whine in life is those who win are all in! Those who whine in life are not committed. Understand this leadership fact; “Everything worthwhile […]

Are You an Expander or Container? So, what is an Expander and Container? EXPANDER – They love action, thrive in chaos, and are out their 100% of the time. CONTAINERS – They are detailed oriented, Like to keep on top of things, they do not like chaos, they love to create systems. As a Leader, […]

What Can The Apostle Paul Teach Us? While leading the church at Thessalonica, Paul gives us 4 Metaphors that can be used to gain a clearer perspective of what Leadership should look like and its impact upon the Leadership vacuum that is exists.  STEWARD – 1 Thessalonians 2:4; “But just as we have been approvedby God to […]

Barna Group is a premier research company that has been involved in studying trends in the faith community for many years. They have been able to add the prior 20 years of research to the impact of our COVID journey to give us a powerful image of trends. Understand that data trends in your location […]

One of the HUGE AH-HA moments of 2020 was facing the reality that our COVID shut-down caused everyone to become a “Start-Up”, even if it was momentary. We were jolted by the prospect of doing business in a cultural environment that did not exist any longer. Simply to use the word SHOCKING is a true understatement. As […]

Regrets are a part of our life. We can’t live without regrets, but we can learn through them. Understand that it is never too late to take a step in the right direction. There are 4 key regrets that I want to remove from my life. Spending Too Little Time With The Right People Nothing […]

Details of The Nativity Look At The Star – It Says, “God Wants Me To Find Him” – Matthew 2:9-10 “ After listening to the king, they went on their way. And behold the star that they had seen when it rose went before them and came to rest over the place where the child […]

God’s Entrance Into History Through Christ Deep Change That Required New Ways of Behaving – Luke 2:1-20 This whole Christmas story is one that forces us to behave in different ways. Society then and society now was ingrained in certain religious patterns and ways of performing. Then God sends Jesus to work not only within […]

Angelic Visitation INTRO: What would your reaction be to an angelic visitation? Would it be like Mary’s who offered six lessons on praise? Scripture: Luke 1:46-56 The Testimony – Mary gives thanks to God for six things – 1:46-56 God’s Condescension – God Took Notice of Her – vv.46-48 The reality of God noticing and bestowing favor […]

Have you given any thought about writing you life sentence. This is a legacy exercise that summarizes your life work that you want to leave behind. In the words of that great theologian Tim McGraw; “I went sky diving; I went rocky mountain climbing; I went two point seven seconds on a bull named Fumanchu. […]

Few people realize that success is within their reach right now! The secret of success is determined by your daily agenda. Most people overestimate today and underestimate tomorrow.  My success agenda is determined by the daily decisions I make and the daily disciplines I practice. You do not make decisions because they are easy. You do not make decisions because […]

The three most difficult words to pronounce are I Was Wrong! There are three things people can do when they make mistakes. (1) They can resolve that they will never make another, which is fine, but impractical. (2) They may let their mistakes make cowards of them, which is foolish. )3) They can make up their […]

“When we talk about how good we are, we emotionally disqualify the people around us.” John Maxwell People are impressed with success but impacted by our failures. • If we’re going to lead well, we must talk about success as well as failure.•Makes the leader reachable.•Makes those learning teachable. How to get a great ROF: […]

The Robert Schuller Question: “What would you attempt to do if you knew you wouldn’t fail?” The John Maxwell Question: “What have you learned from your failure?” The Roadmap For Learning Humility – The Spirit of Learning Reality – The Foundation of Learning Responsibility – The First Step of Learning Improvement – The Focus of Learning […]

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at its testing point.” — C.S. Lewis 7 Key Benefits of Courage Courage enables you to maximize the potential of yourself and others. It has been said that life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage. The Law of Expansion […]

Many leaders never achieve their potential because they are “blown up” by problems they never see coming. Because of the fear and anxiety of this pandemic year that many leaders have experienced it is worth our time to examine some leadership landmines. Keep in mind the mental – emotional health of spiritual leaders is 10x […]

Bad situations in life needs good leadership. For some leaders a crisis will put them on the top. For some leaders, a crisis will topple them. Here are 7 Leadership Practices in Times of Crisis Stand Up and Be Seen During a crisis leaders serve as a repository of people’s fears and they absorb their uncertainties. A crisis […]

Definition of CRISIS: A crisis is an intense time of difficulty requiring a decision that will be a turning point. “All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.” — John Kenneth Galbraith There are two (2) key […]

We are now into Week #32 of our COVID journey. Pause for just a minute to realize what has happened in 2020. Who would have thought we all would be facing the circumstances of what this pandemic has done to our national way of living. Yet, here we are traveling through new territory – masks, […]