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In this LDHR Podcast episode, Beth interviews Ben Sparkman about BPMT (Building Powerful Ministry Teams) — a practical model for teams to choose cooperation and achieve exceptional results. Ben explains the six components (common purpose, clear roles, accepted leadership, effective processes, solid relationships, and excellent communication) and how they help teams grow, especially across cultures. Listeners will gain simple, actionable steps to start aligning their teams around a clear purpose, improving processes, and building trust. For next steps and resources, visit LDHR.org, contact your LDHR leader, or message us at llama@cru.org .
Barbara Culwell shares her journey with Cru and her work as a strengths coach, explaining how CliftonStrengths and the CoreClarity framework help people recognize their gifts, deepen their sense of purpose, and serve more effectively in ministry. She offers practical steps for listeners: take the CliftonStrengths assessment, revisit your top five, consider coaching to unpack results, and intentionally apply your strengths in teams and relationships. Embrace Your Strengths with Barbara Culwell Clifton Strengths Assessment Want to find out more? Write us at llama@cru.org .
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast, where ministry leaders grow together. In this episode, Gina Butz discusses why moving beyond surface snapshots to examine our stories matters for leadership and spiritual growth. She shares practical tools—like life maps, journaling worksheets, attachment insight, LEAF coaching, and transformational prayer—and emphasizes emotional self-awareness, community, and compassionate curiosity as pathways to deeper healing and freedom. Make Sense of Your Story The Place We Find Ourselves Podcast To Be Told How We Love Awareness Worksheet The Emmanuel Promise Landscapes of the Soul And Gina's Book: Making Peace with Change Contact us at llama@cru.org
In this episode, Roger Osbaldiston (35 years with Cru, now leading a church network in New Zealand) introduces Patrick Lencioni’s Working Genius — a simple, practical framework of six “geniuses” (Wonder, Invention, Discernment, Galvanize, Enablement, Tenacity) across ideation, activation, and implementation to help teams work together better. Listeners will learn how Working Genius explains behavior, reduces guilt and judgment, maps team strengths and gaps, and equips leaders to be self-aware of the “wake” they create. A simple next step: ask your team what work gives life and what drains it. For more info, write llama@cru.org . The Working Genius
On this LDHR Podcast episode Beth interviews Dennis Metcalf about the Career Path Planning tool — a God-centered process to help ministry workers discern calling, clarify strengths, and plan growth. Dennis explains the three-part Career Pathway Map (Know, Discern, Grow) and the Five E’s of development (Expose, Equip, Experience, Evaluate, Environment). The episode emphasizes listening to God rather than rushing decisions, practical next steps for leaders and staff, and how the tool creates space to make faithful, fruit-bearing choices in vocational ministry. Career Path Planning Career Pathway Map Bringing Clarity to Calling
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast, where ministry leaders grow together. This episode explores the Myers‑Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as a tool for self‑awareness and healthy leadership. Steve Morgan shares his personal journey, explains the four preference pairs of MBTI, and illustrates how understanding type can improve personal growth, team dynamics, and stress management. Listeners will learn practical next steps for discovering their type, how to use MBTI as a doorway to deeper self‑knowledge (not a label), and how to apply insights to lead and serve others more effectively. 16 Personalities Test Would you like to find out more about MBTI and a coach? Write the llama at llama@cru.org!
On this LDHR Podcast episode, three Birkman experts—Erin Layne, Cy Farmer, and Mark McGowan—introduce the Birkman Method and explain how it measures underlying needs, interests, usual behaviors, and stress reactions using a four-color framework (red, green, blue, yellow). They discuss how the tool reveals invisible needs, accelerates team formation, and offers a strengths-based, biblically rooted approach to personal and leadership development. Practical takeaways include naming needs without judgment, spotting stress early, borrowing behavior to increase effectiveness, and stewarding team pace to prevent burnout. To learn more or get started with Birkman, listeners can contact birkman@cru.org . Workvivo Birkman Community Workvivo Birkman Certified Professionals
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast with guest Terry Morgan. In this episode, we explore the Embracing Feedback course, why feedback matters, and practical ways to give and receive it. Terry shares the origin of 30 Days of Feedback, lessons on using questions and heart-centered approaches, and tips for building feedback-rich, cross-cultural teams. Learn simple steps you can try this week to strengthen positive feedback and invite growth, and find the course at LDHR.org to dive deeper. Embracing Feedback Course
Bob Tiede, who has served for 54 years in Cru, shares how switching from directing to asking transformed his leadership. He explains the difference between diminishers and multipliers and why self-awareness and humility matter. Bob introduces a simple toolkit you can use immediately: four short questions, plus techniques for giving feedback, inviting ideas by asking "What might we do?", and helping people own solutions. Leading With Questions Blog Bob's Free eBooks Leading with Questions Seminar Cru25
In this final Across the Ages episode, ministry leaders from four generations discuss development, retention, and separation across the staff life cycle. They explore what helps people feel seen, valued, and supported—from clear development pathways and creative leadership handovers to meaningful recognition, flexibility, and healthy offboarding practices. Listeners will hear practical steps and real stories to help organizations nurture staff, prevent unnecessary exits, and send people well when it’s time to move on.
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast series Across the Ages. In this episode, four panelists from different generations discuss the application and onboarding phases of the staff life cycle, comparing past and present practices and the expectations each generation brings. They highlight clear qualifications, timely and respectful communication, transparent application questions, meaningful interviews, effective websites and social media, team hospitality, and practical steps organizations can take to help new staff feel known, needed, and have a future.
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast episode of Across the Ages, where four panelists from different generations discuss the recruitment phase of staff life. They share personal stories about being seen, invited, and supported—highlighting how small acts of care and clear vision drew them into ministry. This episode explores the tension between personalization and professionalism, practical steps for better recruitment, and how organizational culture is reflected in the way people are welcomed and invited to serve.
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast. This episode focuses on coaching: a conversation with Karen Zando about moving people from where they are to where they want to be. Host Beth and guest Karen cover core coaching skills, especially listening and asking powerful questions, and show how they apply in relationships, both professionally and personally. The episode offers practical tips you can use right away, including the WAIT acrostic (Why Am I Talking?), listening with mind, body, words, intuition, and the Spirit, and ways to reduce distractions. You’ll hear why listening builds value, trust, and deeper relationships. If you'd like more information about coaching or to get in contact with Karen, email llama@cru.org
In this episode of the LDHR Podcast’s Renewed Leadership mini-series, Kourtney shares practical steps to realign your leadership purpose for the new year. She explains the soul line/goal line framework, the importance of values and community, and how reflection practices, such as journaling, mentorship, and regular rhythms (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly), keep leaders grounded. Listeners are invited to try quick exercises—a 10-minute check-in or a 20-minute vision-goals-commitments triangle—to clarify a one-sentence north star, set focused goals, and sustain alignment throughout the year. Sacred and Strategic
In this episode, coach Cristina Dragomir and host Beth explore designing sustainable rhythms for ministry leadership, focusing on patterns that sustain spiritual, emotional, and relational health rather than just yearly goals. They share practical coaching tools—accountability, reflective questions, simple place-changing practices, and habits—to help leaders slow down, reconnect with God and others, and build rhythms that last. FOCOS Coaching The Emotionally Healthy Leader
Welcome to the LDHR Podcast’s Renewed Leadership mini-series with Maggie Bruehl. In this episode, Maggie shares the origins of LDHR, the shift to a global and collaborative HR mindset, and how HR evolved into leadership development. She reflects on servant leadership modeled by Christ, the importance of humility and presence, and practical ways leaders can pause to notice and celebrate where God has been at work. Maggie describes using poetry and the rhythm of Psalm 118 as a reflective practice, introduces her book Splash, and invites listeners to submit poems following that pattern to llama@cru.org by December 31, 2025, for a chance to win a Kindle copy. Splash: Captured Moments In Time Submit your Psalm 118 poems to llama@cru.org
In this episode of the LDHR Podcast’s Renewed Leadership mini-series, Karen explores why pausing is essential for leaders and offers practical, easy-to-apply pauses—like breath prayers, deep breathing, short walks, and scheduled rhythms—to restore clarity, spiritual formation, and effective decision-making. Listen for guidance on modeling pause for your team, recognizing signs of chronic overwhelm, and a short guided exercise (Palms Up, Palms Down) to help you release burdens and reconnect with God. The Pause App Abide App Lectio 365
In this episode, Mike Maney (LDHR Europe regional leader) explains why ministries need a trusted network of specialist caregivers—counselors, spiritual directors, and debriefers—to support staff well‑being, normalize help‑seeking, and prevent burnout. Practical guidance covers how to evaluate and vet providers, gather confidential feedback, communicate options to staff, overcome common misconceptions, and start small by utilizing prayer, partnerships, and existing member care resources. The Global Member Care Network Barnabas International Member Care Associates Member Care Model
In this episode of the LDHR podcast, Beth talks with Bong from Cru Philippines about Movement Care: organizational systems and relational practices that ensure staff are known, needed, and have a future. They discuss practical measures, such as clustering during crises, corporate health insurance, retirement funds, specialist referrals, in-house counselors, crisis management, leave policies, staff development cycles, and team facilitation resources. Bong emphasizes that beyond policies, care must be intentional and relational. The episode closes with a simple first step leaders can take: assess people’s needs (through surveys, interviews, or observations) and start addressing one or two priorities to build sustainable, people-centered support. Birkman Staff Development Cycle Member Care Model
In this episode, Paul Cheesman from the Global LDHR team shares practical insights on leading virtual teams, including the relational challenges of not "reading the room," building trust across distances, and the importance of over-communication and follow-up. Paul discusses tech and tools (Zoom, Slack, Monday.com), the hybrid mindset of investing in occasional in-person time to build relational equity, and simple habits leaders can use—intentional check-ins, clear systems, adaptability, and extending grace. Close: Leading Well Across Distance and Cultures Member Care Model
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