Sat.Oct 08, 2011 - Fri.Oct 14, 2011

Ron Edmondson

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7 Random Pieces of Advice for the Younger Leader

Ron Edmondson

I love working with younger leaders. It keeps me young and it helps to know I’m investing in something and someone who will likely last beyond my lifetime. I want to share some things I’ve learned from experience. Some of it hard experiences. Here’s a random list of practical advice for young leaders. If you can learn and practice these early in your career it will help you avoid having to learn them by experience.

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My Advice: Don’t Always Give People an Answer

Ron Edmondson

I have a theory I practice often. I’ve been using it for many years…as a father, a friend, and a pastor. It’s not always what people come looking to me for, but I think it’s the best practice. I don’t always give people answers… As a pastor, people come to me for answers… As a dad, my boys come to me for answers… As a friend, people come to me for answers… In either case, I don’t always give people answers… I don’t try to so

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7 Personal Development Benefits of Saying No

Ron Edmondson

The more experience I get in life the more I learn the importance of personal development. And, one of the most important aspects of personal development I have learned is the unique and rare skill of being able to say “No” In fact, learning to say no may be the most important personal, professional or leadership development tool one can have.

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3 Essentials for Long-Term Success

Ron Edmondson

Do you want your organization to succeed? Do you want to personally succeed in your career? Do you want your marriage to thrive? For long-term success in any area of life you must be: Driven by vision. Vision sets the direction you will move. It’s the aim…the mission…the goal of what needs to be done to determine success as you’ve defined it.

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Does Your Church Value Your Family?

Ron Edmondson

Ben Reed is community groups pastor at Grace Community Church where I serve. Ben is an excellent leader; truly becoming one of the sharpest minds on small groups in the country. If he’s not on your radar he should be. You can learn from him and he loves helping other churches. Recently Ben has a family situation that took him out of the office. Our email and text exchanges through that time prompted this guest post.

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5 Reminders When You are the Community’s Pastor

Ron Edmondson

There are times when a pastor is launched into the role of being a community pastor. An influential person in the community or a popular youth dies and you are asked to do the funeral. Tragedy that attracts media attention occurs involving church members. Natural disaster and your church is heavily involved in the recovery. You are asked to speak at a very public event.

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A Reminder About Future Thinking

Ron Edmondson

The larger role of responsibility or the higher position you hold in an organization, the more you must discipline and free yourself for future-tense thinking. Recently I was explaining this concept to a senior pastor. His church has stalled, but it wasn’t surprising to me as I learned more about the church. They are doing things the same way they’ve done them for many years.