Transparency as a Leader

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (www.mscottboren.org), Twitter@mscottboren Life happens when we are making other plans, and often life does not come in the form that we prefer. I had to learn this the hard way as a leader. Struggles occurred that...

3 Keys to Great Listening

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (www.mscottboren.org), Twitter@mscottboren Show Interest in People’s Interests Years ago, I read the book How to Win Friends and Influence People. One thing stood out to me. Dale Carnegie writes about how he can...

Guidelines for Leading through Listening

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (mscottboren.org) , Twitter@mscottboren The degree to which we listen to each other will be the degree to which we experience the presence of Jesus in the midst of our groups. To listen to one another requires that...

The Benefits of Team Leadership

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (www.scottboren.blogspot.com) , Twitter@mscottboren In my previous post, I proposed that God, as Father-Son-Spirit, leads in community, and therefore we are to lead our groups through community. This calls for team...

Jesus’s Team Pattern of Leadership

By Scott Boren, The Center for Community and Mission  (www.scottboren.blogspot.com) , Twitter@mscottboren Over the years, I’ve seen lots of group leaders driven by an individualistic imagination. Actually, in most cases, most leaders tend to operate this way. Within...