Effective Communication While Navigating Change
Like in marriage, the level of success of an organization can be tied to the quality of communication that is happening throughout the different levels of employees, stakeholders, and anyone…
Leaders Should Be Grounded For Change
In the one hundred years of formal leadership study there has been a myriad of definitions developed with one emphasis or another. Despite the fact there is a low degree…
The Need for Change
Every organization has a natural life cycle it progresses through over the course of its existence. As an organization progresses through its life cycle many things can change including motives…
The Validity of the CVF and OCAI
The Competing Values Framework (CVF) and the Organization Cultural Assessment Instrument (OCAI) have been successfully used worldwide in thousands of organizations to understand culture and navigate cultural change. (Cameron, 2011)…
Motivation of a Servant Leader
All leaders must decide how they are going to lead and what their motivation for leadership is going to be. Some leaders are motivated by the needs of the organization,…
Benefits of a Coaching Culture
Coaching is a holistic process of personal development that equips church staff and members with the ability to function effectively on relational, organizational, and social levels. (Wilson, 2011, p. 24) The potential…
Managing Employee Incongruence
As an organization progresses through its life cycle, there are moments of cultural adjustment needed. Leaders must understand how to navigate such cultural corrections before employee incongruence sets in. For…
The Need for Christian Leaders
As the world is continually developing and getting more complex, the need for Christian leadership is diminishing and growing at the same time. In the past, Christian leaders provided spiritual…
Using the OCAI for Leadership Development
The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) is the foremost effective tool for navigating cultural change in the world. (Cameron, 2011) The OCAI evaluates the culture of organizations according to the…
Apply 5 Compasses to Christian Leadership
The world is changing at a rapid pace as technology and the shrinking global village brings people’s lives closer and closer together. (Bennis, 1999, p. 71) For leaders, it is…