Your team members are your most valuable asset in your organization. Without them, the organization is unlikely to be very successful at achieving the mission. Team members want to do a good job and contribute to the overall success of the team and organization. As the leader, it is your responsibility to invest in your … Continue reading Performance Reviews
Cultural anthropology is the branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development. What does this mean for the local church? Churches must know and understand their ministry context in order to be effective at intersecting the lives of the people with the gospel and love of Jesus. All people have … Continue reading Students of our Culture
Culture is what sets an organization apart as either a hard place to work or a great place to work. An organization’s culture will directly impact the success of the organization. The leader(ship) of an organization is always creating culture. Culture eats strategy for breakfast. An organization can have all the strategy, processes and cool … Continue reading Creating (healthy) Culture
There are those precious commodities of life that are valuable in nature and limited in amount. TIME is one of these such commodities. We only have a set amount of time each day. Yet, the demands for our time seem to grow exponentially by the hour. Time is constantly moving and once it passes it … Continue reading Like Sands Through the Hour Glass
One of the hardest things for someone in ministry to do is to celebrate the victories of others. I know this from personal experience. I have the distinct ability to develop tunnel vision. By its basic definition, tunnel vision is the loss of peripheral vision while retaining central vision. The result is a limited view. … Continue reading Celebrating with Others
Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers. Reading is a drudgery for most people. We live in a visual culture where information is gained at the click of a button. With the advent of DVR’s, On Demand Cable and Web Streaming, there is no reason to have to wait through commercials to … Continue reading Leaders are Readers
Pastors can overestimate how much can be accomplished in one year and underestimate how much can be accomplished in a five years. Meaning, we try to do too much too quickly. Quality of activity is more important than quantity of activity. Pastors have a tendency to err on the side of feeling that activity justifies … Continue reading 100 Days
Reaction time is a measure of how quickly someone can respond to a certain stimulus. Athletes want quick reaction times to the snap of football, the speed of a pitch or the firing of the starter’s gun. Leaders are often gauged by their reaction time to the stimuli in their field of expertise. Pastors want … Continue reading 24 Hour Rule
Too often, the answer to any question at work is, “Let’s get together and meet.” Meetings have become the proverbial necessary evil in the workplace. By definition, a meeting is the act or process of coming together (Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary). Meetings can be helpful and productive. Meetings can be distracting and unproductive. Either way, meetings are not going away (completely) anytime soon. So, … Continue reading Not Another Meeting
The best gift a leader can provide his or her team is … clarity. Team members inherently want to do a good job. They want their efforts and work to matter. They deserve direction in turbulent seasons. The deserve a metric to measure their efforts against. Clarity of mission and expectations provides the tracks for … Continue reading The Gift of Clarity
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