Dean Hawk Leadership Podcast | AUDIO
Welcome to the Dean Hawk Leadership Podcast where you will hear innovative and practical ideas to grow you as a minister and break the mold of doing ordinary church. Dean is a leadership coach, speaker, and founding pastor of Rock Family Church in Colorado
Episodes
115 episodes
Momentum Busters & Thrusters
Ignite Your Church’s PotentialIn this episode, we dive into MOMENTUM BUSTERS & THRUSTERS and how it can transform your organization, ministry, or team. Have you ever felt that surge of energy that pushes things forward effortl...
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34:52
Faith for Church Finances
Do you carry the weight of praying and trusting God for the weekly finances and offerings of your church? In this month’s podcast Dean offers some creative insights to bringing your team on board to help you fight the good fight of faith ...
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32:00
Establishing A Financial Retirement Plan
Go forward 20 years in your life . . . what does your retirement fund look like? Special guest and CFO, Kim Hawk, joins Dean this month to talk about the practical steps of investing NOW to prepare for your future retirement...
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24:56
Strengthen Yourself In The Lord
As pastors, there are moments when we give everything to others, yet feel like we have nothing left for ourselves. We experience criticism, betrayal, burnout, and seasons where encouragement is scarce. If we look to people to fill o...
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26:44
"I Can't Believe You Do That"
In this month’s podcast Dean reveals a simple practice he added to his Sunday worship experience years ago that leaves people almost in shock the first time they attend a service. One woman recently said, “I’ve been go...
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9:06
Handling Customer Complaints
One of the joys of ministry are the hundreds of armchair quarterbacks to critique our sermons, decisions, and direction for the church. This is a podcast for your entire team as Dean shares practical insights on how to res...
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22:32
The Power Of A Budget
It’s that time of year to make plans for your 2025 church budget. Discover WHY establishing and maintaining an annual budget is so important and find out the SIX major categories your budget should be divided into.
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33:06
Why You Need An Attorney
Check out this month’s podcast and discover the benefits of having legal counsel to help you navigate the many issues of leading your church. Dean is joined by special guest, Ashley Hawk, who is an attorney who specializes in church and n...
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30:31
Impacting Local Schools
One of the most effective ways to impact your city with the love of Jesus Christ is through the school system. Join Dean in this month’s podcast to learn creative ways to build relationships with your local schools through creative outrea...
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23:10
Developing A Catastrophic Plan
What happens to your church or organization if you suddenly die? Having a strategic plan in place will ensure stability in the midst of a crisis. In this podcast Dean shares practical steps to developing a catastrophic pla...
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23:35
Anatomy Of A Staff Meeting
Does your team dread your weekly staff meeting? Is your meeting a safe place to disagree and express ideas? This month Dean shares the guidelines and elements of their weekly lead team staff meeting that will hopefully bring some inspirat...
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14:13
Lonely At The Top
Friendships in church leadership can be difficult. How close should we get to the members of our church or staff? In this podcast Dean gets raw and breaks the myths of “leadership friendships” as he interviews one of his own personal friends wh...
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33:43
Loneliness Epidemic
In our post Covid-19 world LONELINESS has become a WORLD-WIDE EPIDMIC with an impact on our physical, mental, and emotional health. Research found that loneliness and lack of social connection is equal to the risk of smoking 15 cigarettes...
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18:02
How To Measure Your Team's Success
How do you know if your team members are giving their best? In this SECOND part of HOW TO MEASURE SUCCESS, Dean focusses on TEN (10) AREAS to regularly measure and review with your team members. The big difference is each one of the...
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16:07
How To Measure Your Personal Success
One of the worst things we can do is compare ourselves or our ministry . . . to others. Guaranteed when we do, we will always come up short. In this TWO-PART podcast, Dean begins in PART 1 with how to measure our PERSONAL success.&n...
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26:16
Heads Up Eyes Open
Every Sunday Dean gives bold, straight forward invitations for people to accept Christ with every head up, eyes open, and people looking around. “We don’t sneak people into heaven. We walk them through the front door!” Dean says.&nb...
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23:41
No Excuses No Regrets
All of us daily face opportunities to make excuses. And those excuses later lead us to regret some of our decisions. This month Dean lays out a challenge for you and your team to take your leadership to the next level by living with...
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24:34
Playing To Win In 2024
This month Dean pulls from one of the all-time greatest battles recorded in history to identify the difference of these two strategies and their vastly different outcomes. Are you playing to win? Or playing not to lose? You’l...
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16:32
Better Together
Let’s face it . . . as a pastor we are constantly around people, yet we often feel lonely and isolated. How valuable would it be to have a fellow pastor you could air out your frustrations, hear some wisdom, and ask for prayer to get you throug...
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26:52
Influence Be Cautious How You Use It
The simplest definition of leadership is . . . influence. As pastors, we have the privilege of being an influencer for the Kingdom of God and we must be careful how we use that influence in our church and community. In this podcast...
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25:10
When Pastors Go Turtle
The pain and wounds of ministry are very real. After being hurt a few times by people on your team or in your church it can become very tempting to withdraw from relationships and “go turtle” to avoid being hurt again. Join Dean for...
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28:40
How to Prevent a Leadership Crash
This month Dean and leadership coach, Thomas Thompson, discuss the startling research that revealed 70% of Christian leaders today fail to finish well. There are SIX BARRIERS that stand in the way of finishing strong and Dean and Thomas g...
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37:31
A Conversation About Multicultural Ministry
Dr. Tiko Hardy joins Dean this month to discuss a hot topic that every church staff needs to be diving into. The demographics of our communities are more diverse than ever before. What practical things can we do to EXPAND our minist...
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35:40