Bev Murrill5 minTHE PERILS OF SILO LEADERSHIPLeadership of new organisations brings new purpose and ideas, expanding from there to make room for supporters to become integrated into ...
Bev Murrill3 minTHE SANCTIFYING RUB OF LEADERSHIPMy guest blogger is Pastor Kylie Garrett. I know you’ll love her take on the rub in leadership. There’s plenty of ‘rub’ in leadership, th...
Bev Murrill4 minTHE GATE OF 2017I’ve seen many New Years now. Back in the day when I’d only seen a few decades, I had a vivid expectation that this time, this new year, ...
Bev Murrill4 minLEADERS: ARCHITECTS OF CULTUREYou’d have to have been somewhere off grid and out of cell phone signal and Wi-Fi range for the last year not to have noticed that there’...
Bev Murrill6 minLeader: Take your people with youWhat are your thoughts on the subject of leadership? Are leaders in charge? Are they the people who make the decisions and then tell ever...
Bev Murrill4 minA PROBLEM FOR EVERY SOLUTION …Just recently I have had some dealings with a lady who is struggling with a number of issues (and who of us isn’t?). We’ve talked a few t...
Bev Murrill5 minHow the words YES and NO can direct your entire lifeFor many of my years in over 3 decades of ministry, I have been plagued with a problem you can probably identify with. It’s a problem tha...
Bev Murrill6 minLEADING THOSE YOU SERVEA big welcome to my love and VERY productive friend, Grace Marshall, my guest blogger for this week. This post is an excerpt from her new...
Bev Murrill2 minLEADERSHIP: LEAVING PEOPLE BETTER THAN YOU FOUND THEMOne of the integral characteristics of good leadership is the ability to leave others better than you found them. Life is tough. For ever...
Bev Murrill3 minRUN FOR IT…2015 Melbourne Cup Michelle Payne in suffragette colours of green, white and purple. My international readers may not be aware of Austral...
Bev Murrill5 minLIDS ARE FOR LIFTINGSTEP UP TO THAT PLATFORM. APPLY FOR THAT ROLE ON THE BOARD. GO FOR THE JOB YOU HAVE A PASSION FOR. There’s been an interesting side effec...
Bev Murrill5 minLead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way“LEAD, FOLLOW, OR GET OUT OF THE WAY!” – Thomas Paine, Father of the Revolution I’ve loved this quote for years. It sums up the essence...
Bev Murrill6 minThe Secret of Mentoring: Give What You HaveDon’t ever let anyone tell you that ministry isn’t lonely. All of us who have any word that means “leader” in our role description know t...
Bev Murrill6 min(NOT) PLAYING THE BLAME GAMEFor several years I have been extremely fortunate to be a member of a team of senior leaders who are not interested in playing the ‘Blame...
Bev Murrill5 minTackling TalkaholicsI am always interested in the way people communicate. Take conversations, for example. For most people, a conversation is a fantastic opp...
Bev Murrill5 minMENTORING PART 6: Wrapping it upHistory and legend record the deeds of princes and kings, but each of us has a birthright to actualise our potential. Through their deeds...
Bev Murrill5 minMENTORING PART 5: THE POWER OF PEERSThe Three Musketeers by Alexander Dumas is one of the best-loved classics of all time. A swashbuckling adventure story of camaraderie, su...
Bev Murrill7 minMENTORING PART 4: BEING A MENTOR = BIG PICTURE THINKINGA man stood near a construction site where several bricklayers were working hard in the hot sun. He asked one guy, ‘What are you doing?’ ...
Bev Murrill5 minMENTORING PART 3: ANAMCHARA: THE FRIEND WE ALL WANTAnamchara is a Gaelic word that comes from the ancient Celtic Church in 4th century AD Britain, through the theologian Pelagius. He stron...
Bev Murrill5 minMENTORING Part 2: HOW TO GET A MENTOR – Chemistry, Seasons and Popping the QuestionMy early years of ministry were among the loneliest years of my life. Rick and I had been unceremoniously thrown into pastoring a church w...
