Published Academic Articles
"Responding to Disappointment and Betrayal at Work"
Examining the employee's expectations of their employment relationship, the consequences of missed or violated expectations, and how disappointments may be perceived as betrayal. Understanding how relational disappointments and unmet expectations occur, how they may be perceived as betrayal, and how to heal and forgive in the power of the Holy Spirit.
"Navigating Organizational Change"
How servant leadership provides a framework in managing organizational change and how spirituality increases practitioner effectiveness.
Other Articles
"Serving Marketplace Leaders"
How the church will fulfill its role in supporting and discipling business leaders. Drawing from experience and initiatives leading Saddleback@Work, a strategic framework is offered for churches to lead their church and people in walking out the integration of faith and work.
"Leaning into Work as Ministry"
Featured in the Spring 2023 Biola University magazine, making the case of how work is ministry proven as from reason and scripture.
"Biola Launches "The Work Exchange," A Free Online Resource to Empower Your Work"
Biola University featured The Work Exchange, a free online six-session learning experience launched by The Talbot Center Faith, Work & Economics and Convene Corp. that will help participants increase their purpose, power and peace at work. Frustrated, exhausted and ambivalent at work? Need purpose, power, and peace? The Work Exchange small group curriculum brings 60+ voices from business, academia, and the local church will show you how to work differently and make a difference.
"Equipping People to Do Ministry Monday Through Friday"
Biola University's Talbot's Center for Faith, Work and Economics resources local churches to transform how we think about work, ministry & calling.
From Around the Internet
Working For Pharaoh
What parallels exist between Pharaoh and modern-day management and leadership? It's so easy to disconnect ourselves from the lives in Ancient Egypt, but we may have more in common than we realize. In our high tech, fast paced global economy we might just have a bit of "Pharaoh" hiding in our management and leadership.
"How Women Reflect Christ's Work in the Workplace"
Women in the workforce seek to be recognized as equals with women still underrepresented in leadership positions. Striving to be valued for who she is and for her contributions in the marketplace and at home, a woman seeks affirmation from our culture, but it is often unmet. This biblical perspective encourages women in the roles which they find themselves.
The Truth About Women At Work
What does the Bible really say about women and work—and have cultural assumptions shaped our thinking more than Scripture? This article challenges some commonly held ideas about women in the workplace and offers a broader biblical perspective on work, calling, contribution, and the important role women have always played in God's purposes.
When God's Timing Is Ahead Of Our Timing
"To say that God's timing is not our timing generally indicates we do not believe that God is moving as fast as we would like. Is it possible, just possible that we could be the ones who are ahead of God, running faster than natural events? We are tempered like eager puppies on a walk, pulling too hard on the leash and needing to be restrained by our master's pace." But what happens when God's timing is ahead of our timing?
3 Lies About Work That Have People Fooled!
What we believe about work shapes how we experience it. This article exposes three common lies that distort our understanding of work and offers a biblical perspective that can change how we see our jobs, our purpose, and the work God has given us to do.
Moses and the Burning Water Cooler
What we can learn about Moses and our calling today if we were to have a water cooler conversation. What if God is trying to get our attention in the middle of an ordinary workday? Drawing from Moses and the burning bush, this article explores how everyday moments at work can become places of encounter, calling, and purpose and what can happen when we're willing to notice and respond.
7 Ways Pastors Can Guide Business Leaders
Business leaders face complex decisions and pressures that often extend far beyond Sunday. This article offers seven practical ways pastors can better understand, encourage, and equip business leaders to live out their faith and calling in the workplace.
Supporting Your Working Congregation
Most people spend a significant part of their lives at work, yet churches can easily overlook this important part of discipleship. This article explores practical ways churches can better support and equip people to live out their faith in the everyday realities of their work.
The Pastor's Role In Supporting Business Leaders
Business leaders carry significant influence and often significant pressures that pastors may not fully see. This article explores the important role pastors can play in understanding, encouraging, and spiritually supporting business leaders as they navigate faith, leadership, and the demands of the workplace.
LinkedIn Selected Articles
Emotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence in Action: Low vs. High behaviors
Emotional intelligence (EI) isn't just a buzzword—it's the foundation of success, whether you're leading a team or collaborating within one.
Boost Your Emotional Intelligence for Better Leadership
Emotional intelligence (EI) isn't just a buzzword; it's a leadership success driver. Leaders with high EI build trust, foster collaboration, and drive performance. There are three ways to strengthen yours EI.
Employee Engagement
The Hidden Danger of Criticism in Feedback
Are you unintentionally shutting down learning and growth with your feedback? Feedback is meant to improve performance, but too often, it does the opposite. When feedback feels like criticism, it can create defensiveness, reduce motivation, and actually hinders learning.
The Feedback Trap—Are You Helping or Hurting?
Feedback can send a wave of panic through someone. We have all been on the giving and receiving end where the "feedback" was more of a sting than a support. "Feedback" can actually slow down learning and is often biased.
Ethics
Debunk These Five Business Ethics Myths
Are you unintentionally shutting down learning and growth with your feedback? Feedback is meant to improve performance, but too often, it does the opposite. When feedback feels like criticism, it can create defensiveness, reduce motivation, and actually hinders learning.
The Tension Between Employees & Organizations: Finding the Balance
Ethical dilemmas that arise when the needs of employees and the organization come into conflict. These are not battles of right vs. wrong, but rather two competing good values that create no-win decisions.
Leadership
Strategic Leaders Don't Avoid Conflict, They Navigate It
In the classroom or the boardroom....conflict handled wisely isn't a threat...it's a growth opportunity.
When "How's Your Knee?" Says More Than You Think
Leadership is about more than knowing someone's name or old injury. It's about noticing who they are becoming, what they contribute, and making sure they know you see it.
The Fine Line Between a Leader and a Manager — where are you?
People often use the terms "leader" and "manager" interchangeably. Do we truly understand the difference? Understanding this distinction is essential to building a strong foundation for effective leadership.
When Leadership Fails: Lessons from the Challenger Disaster
On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart just 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven astronauts aboard. The loss of life wasn't only a mechanical failure, it was a preventable leadership failure that could happen in the boardroom or in the workplace. What went wrong, HOW could this have happened?
Implementing a Fast Feedback Loop
Too often in organizational and team decision making and new idea implementation, the majority of the time is spent in ideation and brainstorming and the reflection and implementation is insufficient. Good ideas are not good unless they are well executed.
Please Don't Quit!
Research concluded that relationships have the greatest impact at work. The relational abilities of the manager will affect the employee's psychological contract, employment turnover, and create bitterness and resentment with an employee, or active engagement.
"Hit and Run" Managers
A manager who crashes the world of their employees and takes off without resolution, agreement or a path forward likely has trust with their employees. They may just be a "hit and run" manager.
Personal Well-Being
Burnout is Real
If you're in a demanding season or carrying more than what you can seem to handle, or more than you want, I would say that tending to your soul isn't selfish, it's wise leadership and wise self-care.
Forgiveness at Work: Why Is It So Hard?
Have you ever been hurt at work? Felt like you were overlooked, betrayed, or treated unfairly? Maybe not given the same opportunities as others? Or maybe a leader broke your trust, or a colleague acted in a way that felt like a deep betrayal? These experiences can cause bitterness, resentment, and even moral injury, making forgiveness seem impossible.
