Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, with growth bad leadership becomes apparent. I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest or changing the most. Current systems need improving. Resources are stretched.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

I was able to share with him a principle I learned years ago in leadership. With every major decision in life or leadership, decision remorse is a possibility. A momentary lapse in assurance develops. Trust your instinct and the system of decision-making you used. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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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. In fact, if a church isn’t growing — one major reason may be they haven’t developed enough leaders.

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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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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 24, 2020

After a good laugh, I explained my “system” for dealing with difficult people, which has developed over years of leading. Here is my three part “system” for dealing with difficult people: Love them. Obviously, Jesus is the leader of the church, but He has empowered some of us to serve in leadership positions.

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Ron Edmondson

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Leaders who are easy to follow inspire people to join them on a journey and they develop loyalty from their team. Considering some of the reasons He was able to develop such loyalty among the people He led helps us learn why He was easy to follow. He challenged the tired, worn out system first. Why would they want to follow me?

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 20, 2021

In my experience, it’s easier to hide bad leadership when an organization isn’t growing. However, the more growth that occurs the more bad leadership becomes apparent. As a leader for the last several decades, I’ve learned my leadership is stretched most when we are growing the fastest.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 11, 2024

Maintainers Maintaining involves setting up and managing systems in an effort to continue the progress usually begun by others. It could be to improve things, close them gracefully or transition things to a new season of leadership. Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss leadership nuggets in a practical way.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 6, 2023

We confuse certain words in leadership. I’ve noticed we confuse a lot of words in leadership. Here are pairs of words we often confuse in leadership: Possibility with Probability – Just because something has a chance of happening, doesn’t necessarily mean the chance is good. Giving an assignment is easy.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 19, 2021

Dangerous leadership practices. . A leader can be doing everything else right and one flawed practice overshadows and jeopardizes all the good leadership principles we know. Sometimes it’s a systems problem that requires too much of my time and sometimes its a failure to delegate. Leadership can be a lonely job.

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The Horizons Tracker

MAY 28, 2020

Travel has been disrupted, tourism has shriveled, healthcare systems have come under intense strain, and factory output has withered. Those still working on site are often arguably under even greater strain, whether those in our hospitals and health systems, or those in our food and retail supply chains. Tackle the climate of fear.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It comes with leadership. You might be maintaining current systems well, but leadership is taking people somewhere new. I try to consider if something in my leadership caused this person to feel the need to remain anonymous. (My Controlling leadership often develops this type of anonymous criticism.)

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The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

In other cases, the salesperson might be told to submit a Product Modification Input Solicitation form to product development, marketing, and three other committees to review. ” It’s a great description of the management (process) and leadership (people) balance found in highly innovative teams and organizations.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 29, 2023

I was glad we were still talking at this point in the process, as I was able to share with him a principle I learned years ago in leadership. With every major decision in life or leadership, decision remorse is a possibility. A momentary lapse in assurance develops. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Systems will need to improve, but for today people must ask questions when they don’t know, avoid assumptions and often give others the benefit of the doubt when they don’t understand. New leaders must be recruited and developed. New systems and structures will be needed. This bothers those who are used to “being in the know”.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 19, 2023

It doesn’t matter what system you use, but keeping some sort of prioritized list of tasks increases the rate of completion. Develop your plan to create margin in your life, then periodically review the plan to see how you are doing and what needs to be changed. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts.

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Leaders who are easy to follow inspire people to join them on a journey and they develop loyalty from their team. Considering some of the reasons He was able to develop such loyalty among the people He led helps us learn why He was easy to follow. He challenged the tired, worn out system first. Why would they want to follow me?

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 30, 2023

I’m overwhelmed from a process, task, and leadership perspective. Develop an organized system of ideas. It’s good “therapy” for me just to get them recorded in a system where I can easily refer back to them – often in categories such as staffing, programs, new initiatives, etc. The reality is I’m an idea guy.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

In one of my first professional leadership roles, I managed a large retail division of a major department store. If I could implement the right strategy in working with this department…find the right system…I could improve performance. Sometimes it’s not a systems problem. I was wrong.

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Ron Edmondson

JUNE 22, 2023

Check out my leadership podcast where we discuss leadership nuggets in a practical way. Plus, check out the other Lifeway Leadership Podcasts. The post 21 Ways to Stop a Church from Growing appeared first on Ron Edmondson. In fact, I can come up with lots of ways I’ve seen that stop a church from growing.

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

You don’t need leadership if there is no risk involved. You don’t need leadership to maintain status quo. You don’t need leadership if it doesn’t involve change. You don’t need leadership if you already have all the answers. You don’t need leadership if every outcome is predetermined.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Home About Consulting Church Family Leadership Navigation: Home » Encouragement » Writing a Life Plan for the New Year, Part 4 Writing a Life Plan for the New Year, Part 4 December 30, 2010 in Encouragement , Family , Leadership , Life Plan , Uncategorized , Vision with 6 Comments We’ve been writing a life plan this week.

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Modern Servant Leader

APRIL 6, 2020

Perhaps together though, we may develop great solutions. Here is a list of recommendations from people leadership practitioners. Ron Edmondson Consultant, Pastor, Teacher Mustard Seed Ministry Consulting Communication Communicate. Joe Iarocci Founder Cairnway Consulting Servant-Leadership Remember you are a tuning fork ([link].

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 16, 2014

Team friction developed on our team recently. Here’s the principle that emerged: Apart from a system nothing was done “wrong” Here’s what I mean. All of those, however, are natural occurrences when there is no system in place to address those concerns. Or when the system isn’t good enough.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 30, 2012

In my opinion… Leadership is at it’s best when: People follow willingly, not under coercion or force. Doodling Leadership Tip – Addressing the Real Problem. Freedom Passes Develop Systems and Increase Creativity. The post 7 Times Leadership is at It’s Best appeared first on Ron Edmondson.

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N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs? You’re undoubtedly thinking “who died and left Mike Myatt in charge of qualitatively assessing leadership blogs?&# I know, I know - another list? Great question.

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CEO Blog

JULY 8, 2012

This is a guest post by Jessica Edmondson We’ve all been there – that moment when accomplishing a set of daily goals seems about as likely as winning the lottery while vacationing on the sunny shores of the French Riviera. Have you developed a system that allows you to focus your efforts on accomplishing a set of tasks?

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Ron Edmondson

OCTOBER 24, 2019

All the leadership examples I post on my blog come from real life situations – either mine or yours, collected through years of leadership experience. Many of the situations from which I develop leadership principles happened years ago when I was in secular business and management.

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Ron Edmondson

JANUARY 5, 2011

I certainly don’t claim to be an expert, but I do have a system. All Posts by Ron Edmondson | Personal Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Share By Email Leave a Reply: Click here to cancel reply. All Posts by Ron Edmondson | Personal Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Share By Email Leave a Reply: Click here to cancel reply.

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Ron Edmondson

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Development. Rood writes that “ development needs focus on organizational quality. ” The development needs of an organization are designed to take it to the “next level” of success. This is where an organization really matures, develops lasting principles and values, and prepares itself for years of growth and success.

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Ron Edmondson

JULY 16, 2014

The best leaders, however, avoid what I call the leadership vacuum. I have heard the term leadership vacuum used to describe the need for more leaders, but I believe the biggest void may be within leaders themselves. The leader in a leadership vacuum believes: Everyone on the team understands me. And, I understand them.

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Ron Edmondson

MARCH 1, 2022

I have also learned that the term bottleneck matters in the field of leadership. A bottleneck is defined as “ A point of congestion in a system that occurs when workloads arrive at a given point more quickly than that point can handle them.” Leadership in its very definition involves change. Consider how Jesus led.

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Miles Anthony Smith

AUGUST 7, 2018

29 Leadership Experts Share Their Top 19 Leadership Competencies & Behaviors for Success (Plus Leaderboard) It seems that the world has a lack of leadership these days, doesn’t it? Why does poor leadership seem to be such an epidemic in government, business, and nonprofits?

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Ron Edmondson

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Develop some system of calendaring your week. Develop your plan to create margin in your life, then periodically review the plan to see how you are doing and what needs to be changed. The post 7 Ways To Create More Time Margin in Your Week appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Schedule times to organize.

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Ron Edmondson

MAY 1, 2019

When budgets are stretched, development often is pushed to the back burner or cut altogether from the budget. It’s important, therefore, to find ways to develop even with stressed budgets. It’s important, therefore, to find ways to develop even with stressed budgets. Learn from each other.

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Ron Edmondson

APRIL 23, 2013

With that in mind… Here are 7 simple leadership tips: Fight fewer battles where the win doesn’t matter as much – Okay, honestly, this is hard, because usually people are bringing the battle to you. The post 7 Simple Leadership Tips appeared first on Ron Edmondson. Simple Time Managment System.

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Ron Edmondson

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I have been a student of leadership and a practicing leader for over 30 years and this time in which we live has produced the most conducive environments for leaders to thrive. Leadership is designed for this scenario. Trust is the foundation of all good leadership. There has never been a better time to be a leader than today.

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