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How To Keep Up With All Things #OC19

Enhance your experience—whether you’re attending in Atlanta or through our Live Stream. Here’s a rundown of where and how you can catch up with us.

Live Stream

Once again, we are excited to offer non-attendees a Live Stream experience throughout OC19. Watch from the comfort of your home or office or favorite coffee shop

Be sure to RSVP today, and watch this blog for updates and the soon-to-be-released schedule!

#OC19

Hashtags are our connection to you across social channels. It’s how minist...

Why Does Your Church Need a Communications Plan?

Most churches understand the significance of communications and the importance of planning. However, far too few churches actually take the time to create and implement even a basic communications plan.

“Failing to plan is planning to fail.” This adage holds true because those churches without strategic communication are often the same churches that fail to reach a wider audience. They struggle to grow and wonder why their message falls flat. But the obvious reason is the lack of a clear comm...

What If Your Personal Development Plan Was Better Than Your Ministry Plan?

by Nick Blevins

What do you think of when you think of leftovers?

I think of so many family dinners as a kid where there weren’t many leftovers. Dad and I really liked to eat. Some things never change, I suppose. I also think of times I missed dinner, came home, and only got leftovers. That was definitely not as fun.

My question is this: who gets the leftovers of your leadership?

Maybe you never thought of it in those terms. But, we all have multiple areas of our lives where we should be app...

Connect with Orange

If you’re anything like most of us, you’re probably on Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook once…twice…okay, maybe ten times a day. Honestly, it’s one of our favorite ways to connect! We’d love to meet with you there—to share ideas, to see pictures, to learn more from each other about impacting the faith of the families and kids we serve. Here’s how you can reach us:

Orange Leaders

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Facebook: /OrangeLeaders
Twitter: @OrangeLeaders
Instagram: OrangeLeaders
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The Important Role Self-Awareness Plays In Leadership

What is the toughest question you’ve ever had to answer, and who asked it?

Given that somehow you made your way to this exceptional community called Orange Leaders, I automatically know a few things about you:

I know that you study leadership. More than likely you read leadership books, listen to leadership podcasts, and attend leadership conferences, such as Orange Conference or Rethink Leadership. I know that you desire to personally grow in your ability to lead others and your organizatio...

Building a Communication Strategy to Engage Every Parent

America is changing. (I’m sure you’ve noticed.) The days of a “majority” are coming to an end. Multiculturalism is stepping up to the mic to sing its song while monoculture is exiting stage left.

I believe that God created us all, and He made us different for a reason. The human race represents a microcosm of a big God who is multifaceted. Each one of our cultures represents another aspect of an amazing God. And when we come together, our unique piece of the puzzle joins with another to compl...

2019-2020 Scope & Cycle Resources for XP3 Partners

If you aren’t familiar with the phrase “Scope & Cycle” or our reasoning behind having one, let me encourage you to head over to the XP3 101 post about it. Or, for even even more in-depth look at what our Scope & Cycle is all about, check out this post. The purpose of this blog isn’t just to rehash all of that golden information, but rather to inform you of some awesome information and documents about our updated Scope & Cycle resources.

What’s New

Our previous Scope & Cycle was dated from 201...

Delegation: The Secret Sauce to Effective Leadership

“I don’t have a problem with delegation. I love to delegate. I am either lazy enough, or busy enough, or trusting enough, or congenial enough, that the notion leaving tasks in someone else’s lap doesn’t just sound wise to me, it sounds attractive.” -John Ortberg

It should come as no surprise to anyone that the greatest and most self-aware leaders know that they can’t do it all. The ability to delegate important tasks to other people and then trust them to complete those tasks with efficiency...

Embracing Curiosity as a Leadership Skill

“Curiosity is different from intelligence or creativity or even from leadership. Not everyone has those qualities,
but everyone can be as curious as they want to be, and it doesn’t matter when you start. Furthermore, your curiosity can help you be smarter and more creative, it can help you be more effective and also help you be a better person.”
– Brian Grazer, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life

One of the best and most accessible tools you can use to improve yourself is curiosity. I...

7 Things There Will Never Be Enough Time For | Rethink Leadership

There are at least seven things in leadership there will never be enough time for—unless, of course, you make it.

And smart leaders do.

My guess is that whenever you read this, you’re already feeling pinched for time and a bit overwhelmed.

Welcome to leadership. Welcome to life.

If you study the differences between great leaders and poor leaders, many of them center around pro-activity, refusing to make excuses and abundance thinking.

Another key difference is that great leaders refuse to let...