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9 Signals Your Hormones May be Hijacking your Leadership

2 Comments / Leadership, Life Balance, Neuroleadership / By Charles Stone

God gave us a magnificent creation called the brain.Weighing less than three pounds, it wields incredible influence over how well leaders lead. Although we usually call the brain a computer, it’s more like a pharmacy that constantly dispenses drugs (hormones and neurotransmitters) into our bodies and brains which affect our emotions, our thinking, and our leadership. A […]

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5 Questions Pastors Neglect in Sermon Prep

3 Comments / communication, Ministry, Neuroleadership, Pastors, Preaching, Sermons / By Charles Stone

A while back I read the book Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions by Dr. Carmen Simon. It is probably THE best book on communication I’ve ever read. Every pastor and communicator should read the book. Really! Dr. Simon is uber-smart (two PhD’s), yet she writes on a practical level. I learned a boatload

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Do You Problem Solve too Much as a Leader?

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Church Staff, Leadership, Neuroleadership, Pastors / By Charles Stone

Good leaders help team members solve their own problems with their own insight. Average leaders tend to solve their team members’ problems, thus truncating their opportunity to grow themselves. So, how do we help our team members learn to problem solve on their own? In this post I begin with a story and then suggest ways

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The Sleepy Leader’s Brain

3 Comments / Body Care, Leadership, Life Balance, Neuroleadership / By Charles Stone

God created sleep not only to cure sleepiness, but to serve our bodies and brains in many beneficial ways. Unfortunately, many leaders, especially pastors, try to lead without getting adequate sleep and live with a sleepy leader’s brain. When we don’t get enough sleep, our brains don’t work as well. Thus, we don’t lead at

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4 Ways to Stop REACTING!

1 Comment / Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry, Neuroleadership / By Charles Stone

One of the greatest strengths a leader can posses is his (or her) ability keep his emotions in check, to stop reacting. However, when we feel rejected, hurt, or fearful, we often react, get visibly angry, or becoming defensive. Those responses can hinder God’s work in our lives and hurt our leadership. So what can

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Neuroleadership

9 Signals Your Hormones May be Hijacking your Leadership

5 Questions Pastors Neglect in Sermon Prep

Do You Problem Solve too Much as a Leader?

The Sleepy Leader’s Brain

4 Ways to Stop REACTING!

Persuade Like Jesus.