Category: Staffing
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Why the Grass isn’t Greener at that other Church
If you haven’t noticed, church staffing has become a competitive market in recent years. So much so that a quick Google search of “Church Staff Search Firms” will provide you with a list of companies whose entire purpose is to help staff local churches, and whom didn’t exist 20 years ago. By the way, some…
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4 Big Reasons Why Church Teams Win or Lose
Not all church staff teams are created equal. Not only are different people gifted differently, but they’re gifted with a different measure or capacity of each gift they have. Some teams are built skillfully and intentionally to reach a particular vision while others are a collection of talented people, others still end up being a…
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8 Characteristics of a Great Campus Pastor
I wrote my first article about multisite churches eight years ago, it was entitled, “Why 20 Churches Went, Didn’t Go, and Still Might Go Multisite.” The article was based on a conversation with a group of Executive Pastors from large churches across America that I had been asked to facilitate. Since that time, I’ve written…
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How to Coach the Best Performance out of your Team
I wish coaching could solve every staff performance issue. I wish a little post game conversation would always turn into great results. I wish getting some team members a few more, “game like reps,” would improve their performance. I wish. Unfortunately, coaching isn’t always the solution. There are some team members who can’t or won’t…
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Leading an Unstuck Church Online Course
The last few years at the Unstuck Group we’ve served 100’s of churches and over that time we’ve been tracking the “Core Issues” that emerge during strategic planning—the things teams identify as the reasons they felt stuck. There were 12 common challenges that kept coming up over and over again—things like finding the best ways to close the “back door,” building a…