The Resilient Leaders Podcast with J.R. Briggs Ep 306: The 3 Stages of Maturity (Which Stage Is Your Leadership In?)
Oct 15, 2025
Explore the three stages of maturity in leadership, highlighting how our questions during failure reveal our growth. Discover the difference between shallow copers who focus on appearances and troubled reflectors who question life's hardships. Transforming leaders, on the other hand, seek deeper understanding and change. J.R. encourages introspection by examining your dominant questions and invites listeners to embrace the journey of spiritual formation. Enhance your leadership by understanding these stages and asking the right questions.
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Annual Teaching Week That Shapes Leaders
- J.R. Briggs described teaching a weeklong course at Friends University each September for ten years.
- He calls it his favorite week despite its emotional heaviness because students wrestle courageously with hard topics.
Orientation → Disorientation → Reorientation
- Walter Brueggemann's pattern: orientation, disorientation, reorientation explains how people move through stability, chaos, and restoration.
- Proper stewardship of these phases can lead to deeper faith and renewed perspective.
Questions Determine Life Quality
- The quality of your life depends on the quality of the questions you ask yourself, God, and others.
- Asking the right questions during hard seasons unlocks transformative encounters with God.