23: The Developer's Dark Side

53: How to Be Real and Not Be Weird

The best leaders know how to be real without being ruthlessly honest or eroding trust. Transparency and truth go hand-in-hand but aren’t always the same thing. In this episode, you’ll learn to use wisdom in deciding how to lead your team.

51: Keeping It Real

The best leaders always keep it real. In this episode you’ll learn why authenticity, vulnerability, and transparency are essential for great leadership and get three keys to improve your leadership by leading with transparency.

49: Six Steps to Your Best Year of Leadership, Part 2

In this episode, Craig Groeschel will show you the last three of six steps anyone can take to become a better leader. Discover how to find a system to create, a relationship to initiate, and a risk you need to take.

47: Six Steps to Your Best Year of Leadership, Part 1

Before you ever start talking about what you want to do to make a fresh start, the first thing to know is who you want to become. In this episode, Craig Groeschel will show you the first three of six steps anyone can take to become a better leader.

45: Four Keys to Spot the Talent Others Miss

Find out four principles to identify talented people and push them to success, learn about the importance of your first impression, and discover self-driven, passionate people who will lead your organization forward.

43: Q&A: Lysa TerKeurst, How to Lead Through Pain

In this episode, Craig sits down with New York Times best-selling author Lysa TerKeurst to talk about how to lead through pain, empower yourself and your team to find your threshold, and build a support system.

41: Q&A: Steven Furtick, Pastor, Elevation Church

In this episode, Craig sits down with Steven Furtick of Elevation Church to discuss how tension can be a great starting place, how vulnerability plays a key role in creating personal connections, and how to avoid what he calls “creative sabotage.”

39: How To Grow A Healthy Organization

All organizations have life cycles, and all organizations go through different phases. In this episode, Craig Groeschel will show you how you can identify where your organization is in the cycle and grow it into a healthy, thriving one.

37: How To Inspire Your Team

You need only one or two consistent traits of an inspirational leader to inspire people. In this episode, Craig Groeschel will show you how to inspire your team by identifying your inspirational leadership style and finding new ways to strengthen it.

35: The Four Essentials of Innovation

What’s a problem you’re trying to solve? What could you achieve if you found a way to solve it? In this episode, Craig will share the four things you’ll need to work toward the next great innovation in your organization.

33: Answering Your Questions (Bonus Episode)

In this special bonus episode, Craig answers several questions listeners have submitted.

31: Investing Your Resources the Right Way, Part 2

In this episode, learn about four common allocation mistakes leaders often make, and how we can avoid those mistakes to invest our resources the right way.

29: Motivating Your Team

In this episode, Craig will look at two things to avoid when we’re trying to motivate our teams, and three ways we can motivate in a way that lasts.

27: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 1

In this episode, Craig Groeschel will show you three factors that matter when you’re receiving feedback.

25: Anticipatory Leadership

The way you are doing what you are doing won’t work forever. If you're not changing, you're falling behind. In this episode, find out what makes an anticipatory leader.

23: The Developer's Dark Side

In this episode, Pastor Craig Groeschel looks at four dark sides of leaders and how to solve their most common problems.

21: Fire Your Inner Boss

Many bosses don’t understand what it takes to be a leader. In this episode, Craig takes a look at what it means to fire your inner boss and replace it with a leader.

19: Principles of Higher Hiring, Part 1

In this episode, Craig discusses selecting, developing, and empowering the right people—one of the most important skills you can develop as a leader.

17: Creating an Empowering Culture, Part 2

In this episode, Craig Groeschel discusses how when you guard your values above all else, you can surrender control to the people you lead. You gain freedom to create within the values.

15: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 2

In this episode, Craig explores four types of communication and how to choose the right hat to wear in different scenarios.

13: Leading Up, Part 2

In this episode, Craig tackles three more things that matter when you are leading up: motives, initiative, and truth.

11: Embracing Change, Part 2

In this episode, Craig discusses two more ways to embrace change. When you change the questions you're asking, you change the way you're thinking.

9: Institutionalizing Urgency, Part 2

In this episode, Craig talks about two more steps to take to create sustained urgency and passion for your organizations mission: pursuing continual discomfort and getting emotional.

7: The Forbidden Phrase

Learn the importance of casting vision and setting a standard for your organization—one that doesn’t use the forbidden phrase.

5: Creating A Value-Driven Culture, Part 1

Learn the importance of creating a value-driven culture and three keys to developing your organization's culture.