Ron Edmondson

APRIL 26, 2023

Years ago I discovered a way to increase creativity and innovation when money is tight. The team in this area of ministry all agreed it had to be made. No, but the use of creativity and innovation can often be avoided if there is enough money in the budget. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 6, 2023

What makes teams healthy and effective? Obviously this is our goal if we lead or even serve on a team. Who would want to serve on an unhealthy team? It may be a permanent team or a temporary team, but we’ve all served on teams, which simply weren’t productive. The team didn’t gel as a group.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 6, 2021

I have served in some toxic leadership cultures in the past. I was once a division manager for a large sales team and sales were down due to the economy. Even more, I have hired people out of them and helped dozens of other leaders recover after being in a toxic leadership culture. They simply give up trying.

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Leading Blog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Y OU’VE CAREFULLY put your team of people together, spent a lot of time getting the right people on the bus, your best and brightest, and yet you’re underperforming? Your team isn’t giving you everything they’ve got. Creating a psychologically safe workplace is an ongoing function of leadership. It is an enabler.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

How does a team become idle? . Team idleness is a term I use to describe a team failing to move forward towards its desired goals and objectives. Therefore, team idleness means for a span of time there is no – or very little – forward progress for the team. What causes team to become idle?

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 16, 2023

Every team needs both protectors and advancers. Part of leadership is balancing the need for protectors and advancers, so we can better realize the goal for the organization. More importantly, will you achieve the goals you’ve set for your organization this year with the balance you currently have on your team?

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Coaching Tip

JUNE 4, 2012

Teaming has a positive effect on people's experience at work. In organizations where teaming is common, employees learn from each other, enjoy a broader understanding of the work and how it gets done from start to finish, and can better see and act on opportunities for improvement. Leadership Actions Can Promote Teaming.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2024

In each life cycle, the most successful organizations I have been a part of had a team skilled at three separate functions. BTW, every team needs these people to be successful.) It could be to improve things, close them gracefully or transition things to a new season of leadership. Personal example: I love being a starter.

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QAspire

JANUARY 30, 2023

What is critical is asking the right questions within the frame of specific context involve people, build trust, find solutions, foster collective learning and encourage innovation. In her book “ The Fearless Organization ”, Amy Edmondson writes,when leaders overcome their biases to ask genuine questions, it fosters psychological safety….

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 20, 2017

Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. As leaders, we can’t force innovation. We can’t mandate innovative people. And, if our people haven’t been innovative in a while, then there may not be much innovation going on in our world. Great innovation comes from the gut.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 27, 2022

This is dangerous for a team, which wishes to continue growing. If a team is not learning and improving, it will soon struggle to maintain any level of success. Here are 10 inexpensive development options for a team: Bring in a leader – It may be cheaper to bring the expert to you than it is to attend a conference.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This has been a frustrating year in leadership. Yet, as I reflect on some of the decisions I have personally had to make this year, I realize some things 2020 didn’t change about leadership. Some things have always been a part of leadership. 7 things 2020 didn’t change about leadership: Uncertainty.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Words do matter and clear communication is vital for healthy teams. At the same time, there will be a certain fuzziness on a healthy team. . Some things are actually what I refer to as “ fuzzy ” on a healthy team. 3 areas of fuzziness on a healthy team: The lines of authority are often blurred. Indistinct.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While I’m not quite sure that was a healthy demonstration for building team morale, I think there ARE ways a person can make themselves invaluable on a team. Here are 7 ways to make yourself invaluable to a team: Be a chief encourager. Be a verbal proponent of the overall objectives of the team and where things are going.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Introducing 5T Leadership. Ron (and his strategic partners) coach and consult churches, organizations and leaders in 5 critical areas of leadership. The way you begin and end a leadership position often determines the degree of success you will have in the position. Team building. I know the horror of an unhealthy team.

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Lead Change Blog

JULY 30, 2018

This usually means that they will not ask for clarity, request feedback, or wonder about something that is innovative or new. A decade ago, Marcial Losada’s research promoted a meta-model of learning for teams that involved three variables at a ratio of at least three to one. The politician.” Question that include.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As I write this I’m preparing to meet with someone with much more experience in leadership than me. Wisdom is critical to the field of good leadership. Being wise in leadership comes with time and experience. Frankly, I have known few in leadership whom I would consider truly wise. All of us can have moments of wisdom.

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In his article on “Crafting Strategy,” McGill University professor and management author, Henry Mintzberg, provides a good example of innovation and organizational learning in high-performing, agile organizations: “Out in the field, a salesman visits a customer. Many innovations were unplanned and unexpected.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 29, 2020

His statement was that he “ wants to lead an organization that produces innovative leaders. ” And I love that and it’s a goal for me in leadership. They don’t want simply managed followers on their team. Have you created an environment conducive to produce the kind of team you say you want?”.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 1, 2021

Over the years, I’ve observed that many times there are things that simply weaken my leadership. If we can identify what interrupts the effectiveness of our leadership, we can become better leaders. 7 things which weaken my leadership: Needless Distractions. 7 things which weaken my leadership: Needless Distractions.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 21, 2023

What is your leadership capacity? I use the term leadership capacity to describe a leader’s maximum potential to effectively lead others to accomplish the vision. A leader exceeds their leadership capacity when they no longer have the ability to effectively manage or lead the organization to reach its potential.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 6, 2020

Here is a list of recommendations from people leadership practitioners. Ron Edmondson Consultant, Pastor, Teacher Mustard Seed Ministry Consulting Communication Communicate. And innovate, innovate, innovate. Joe Iarocci Founder Cairnway Consulting Servant-Leadership Remember you are a tuning fork ([link].

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 13, 2022

5 lesser-known traits of effective leadership: Stretching – And I don’t mean exercise, although that’s not a bad one to mention either. That’s because leadership is all about going somewhere new – somewhere people have never been previously. Who are you stretching – in an effective way – on your team?

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Coaching Tip

JULY 3, 2013

Organizations are increasingly relying on the collective power of teams to meet today’s business demands, but many teams aren’t living up to their full potential. Thinking style data, which reveals a number of important clues about how a team works, can be assessed and used as a starting point for discussions and activities, she says.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 15, 2020

Words do matter and clear communication is vital for healthy teams. In fact, in my experience, some things are even “ fuzzy ” on a healthy team. Here are 3 areas of fuzziness on a healthy team: The lines of authority are often blurred. But on healthy teams, rules are designed to enhance, not limit growth. Indistinct.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

One of them for me has been ways I help creative people on our teams flourish. If you think if I can help you or your team I would be happy to talk with you. The post 3 Ways to Help Creative People Flourish On Your Team appeared first on Ron Edmondson. There are some lessons we only learn the hard way.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 28, 2021

The leadership lid you create will be in whatever area you choose to control. I purposively choose to give things away to others on our team – things they can’t do better than me and things I simply shouldn’t be doing. Senior leadership should make sure the vision of the organization is always in the minds of people.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Do you want to attract a leader to your team? The ones you often need to turn things around – innovative, creative, energetic, visionary, leaders – are hesitant to come to a plateaued or declining church. It’s what can attract a leader to your team. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You know the kind… I talk weekly to ministers serving on church staffs around the country who are struggling with the leadership of the church where they serve, mainly because of the leadership…or lack thereof…coming from senior leadership in the church. I simply asked: What does successful leadership require?

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 31, 2021

It revealed that adding women to software development teams not only boosted team performance but also reduced workplace delinquency. “Companies should recruit more women to their development teams not only for obvious ethical reasons but because this will improve performance. Supporting innovation.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Most leaders want to lead an innovative organization. As leaders, we can’t force innovation. We can’t mandate innovative people. And, if our people haven’t been innovative in a while, then there may not be much innovation going on in our world. Great innovation comes from the gut.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 7, 2014

But, the process of doing church requires leadership. One way to grow a church is to expand the leadership base. And, one way to ensure a church doesn’t grow is to limit leadership development. Without leadership progress stalls. Related posts: Leadership Development for Dummies. If not, why not?

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The team in this area of ministry all agreed it had to be made. No, but the use of creativity and innovation can often be avoided if there is enough money in the budget. The post Increasing Creativity and Innovation on a Tight Budget appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Will this work every time?

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 6, 2022

I don’t know if “survive” and “desperation” are the right words to title this post but certainly leadership is harder today than it ever has been in my career. Trust in leadership is at an all time low. How to survive in faith leadership during seasons of desperation: Listen to outside voices. And some leader just said “Duh”!).

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. Right Kind of Wrong : The Science of Failing Well by Amy C.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 22, 2014

I love team dynamics and organizational structures. I have written many times about what makes a healthy team, my expectations of team members, and elements to build health into your team. I previously wrote 7 Traits of a Great Team Member. But, how does a great team member perform on a team?

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 31, 2024

Being in a leadership position is no guarantee we are leading. Obviously, those periods shouldn’t be long or progress and momentum eventually stalls, but leadership is an exhaustive process. Leadership is about something new. A great part of leadership is about discovery. It can be draining. And I encourage that.

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