lisaauthor, Author at The Artios Center for Vibrant Leadership

Why You Should Want to be an Effective Communicator

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows Do you think of yourself as a communicator? Maybe you’re an introvert who speaks as little as possible. Or maybe you’re a social butterfly who can strike up a conversation anywhere, anytime, with anyone. Chances are you’re somewhere in between the two – someone who appreciates keeping quiet but is able to hold a conversation when necessary. No matter what mix of the above you identify with, you are a communicator. To put it more broadly… We are all communicators I took my first communications class during my second year of college. It was a required speech class. [...]

Why You Should Want to be an Effective Communicatorlisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

4 Ways Active Listening Increases Your Influence

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows Everyone wants a boss who is an active listener. These sorts are a rare commodity, but when you come by one you feel like you’ve hit the career jackpot. The active listening boss is one who invites conversation. He asks for constructive feedback. She wants to know your ideas. He cares about your personal life. She puts away her devices when you approach her. A boss like this makes you feel respected and valued. He motivates you to do your job well simply by taking the time and putting in the effort to understand what you communicate. This [...]

4 Ways Active Listening Increases Your Influencelisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

Re-Created to Meet a Need: Knowing When to Jump In

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows I like when I can meet another person’s need. This, of course, is not a personality trait unique to me. In fact, I’d be surprised to learn of a person who doesn’t like to be needed. Like little children who are eager to be their parents’ helper, adults feel satisfaction when we can serve in even the smallest of capacities. My husband is one of six children, four of which are his sisters. Each sister pitches in when we have family meals together at his parents’ house, often with both prep and clean up. I noticed this early [...]

Re-Created to Meet a Need: Knowing When to Jump Inlisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

Leadership Essentials: Communication and Clarity

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by Artios Magazine One of the most practical qualities of a leader is his or her ability to effectively communicate. Effective communication is particularly an essential ingredient in everyday Christian leadership. This quality requires intentionality. More concisely, it requires clarity. In Artios Christian College‘s introductory course Essentials of Vibrant Leadership (LEA11), students study several books on Christian leadership as they explore the essential qualities of Christian leadership. Both communication and clarity are among them. Though these two essentials can stand independently, they also relate. Communication as a Leadership Essential “Sometimes we forget about the power of words and the need for [...]

Leadership Essentials: Communication and Claritylisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

Leadership Essentials: Embrace Contentment

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Esther Winchell According to Webster’s Dictionary the definition of content (adjective) is “satisfied with what one is or has, not wanting more or anything else.”[ref]Def. 2. Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary. 10th ed. 2000. Print.[/ref] In order to find contentment as a leader, one must know their strengths and weaknesses. Being an effective Christian leader means being content with the authority given. It means not rushing to run your own game plan without consulting others. Most of all, it means keeping the Main One the Main One. Contentment as a Leadership Essential Christians are re-created by the Almighty to lead, so humility should [...]

Leadership Essentials: Embrace Contentmentlisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

Leadership in Crisis

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by Israel Steinmetz The world is a different place than it was just five months ago. As I’m writing on the final day of April, there are over 3,000,000 confirmed global cases of COVID-19 and nearly a quarter of a million reported deaths. One-third of those three million cases are in the United States along with over 60,000 of those deaths. In the wake of the COVID-19 health pandemic is a global economic crisis, impacting employment, manufacturing, the supply and food chain, and global markets. Here in the US we’re rapidly headed toward the worst financial crisis in our history. [...]

Leadership in Crisislisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

Leading and Managing: What’s The Difference?

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Chip Hinds (Excerpt borrowed with permission from the Southwest District Superintendent’s Blog) Are you acting in the roles of leadership and/or management? Last week, in discussion with SWD HOPE Ministry Co-Director David Burrell, we remarked to one another how launching into a project, even in turbulent circumstances when the way was still being charted, was not a problem for either one of us. He remarked jokingly, “Yes, that is us sometimes, ‘fire … ready … aim.’” I admire David Burrell and Martin Ramirez, also Co-Director of SWD HOPE Ministry, because of what they are doing “outside the four walls of [...]

Leading and Managing: What’s The Difference?lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

The Leadership Conversation: What does Communion with God Look Like?

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Mary Meadows “Communion with God” is a phrase that gets thrown around a lot in Christian circles. This idea has a tendency to sound super spiritual, but it can be hard to conceptualize. In this Leadership Conversation, Israel Steinmetz and Amber Riggs (former co-directors of Artios Christian College) sit down to answer the question: what does communion with God actually look like? Israel defines communion by using another common term: relationship. Our communion with God should look like a relationship. But hold on—”relationship” is also a broad term. How does this help us? Multifaceted Relationship Throughout Scripture, God uses examples of earthly [...]

The Leadership Conversation: What does Communion with God Look Like?lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

The Leadership Conversation: Positional vs Relational Leadership

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

by Mary Meadows What kind of individual do you picture when you hear the word “leader”? Do you think of well-dressed men and women in a corporate board room? Perhaps instead you picture a pastor speaking to thousands of people at a mega-church, or even a missionary trekking through the jungles of the Amazon to reach a remote native tribe? While there are definitely some leadership positions that look like this, most often the people who exert the greatest influence in our lives do so through relational leadership rather than through positional leadership. Positional vs Relational Leadership: What’s the Difference? There [...]

The Leadership Conversation: Positional vs Relational Leadershiplisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:06+00:00

Acts of Service Aren’t Enough, Thankfully

lisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:21+00:00

by Caitlin Meadows Growing up, my elementary school implemented a merit system. Every staff member carried around little yellow pieces of paper called “bobcat awards” that motivated students to voluntarily complete acts of service. When a student had collected enough, he or she earned a lunch period spent in the “bobcat room” (the band room) complete with a special dessert treat and rated G music playing from a boombox. The best part about earning this reward? The status. Since the bobcat room was right off of the cafeteria, these well-behaved, honored students got to walk right on past all of their [...]

Acts of Service Aren’t Enough, Thankfullylisaauthor2025-02-14T16:09:21+00:00

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