Resonant Leadership: Attunement > Alignment

img_0130“Leaders have more trouble than anybody else when it comes to receiving feedback, particularly about how they’re doing as leaders.” – Daniel Goleman, Primal Leadership

I learned while serving as Lead Minister in a prior ministry that it was difficult to receive feedback from the eldership and those who reported to me. I created a formal system of evaluation and feedback for the organization that was administered twice a year. This proved to be insufficient.

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Eat This Book: The Christian Diet of Listening

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Many people experience prayer as a burden and not as a pleasure.

Even if it is agreed upon as important most people feel guilty about their failure to pray enough. Why does prayer rank so high on surveys of theoretical importance and so low on surveys of actual satisfaction? Why does prayer seem such a struggle?

We may feel as though we lack the words to pray. Could it be that our frame work of prayer needs to change?

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