Tag: measure
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Increasing Innovation at your Church through Quick Feedback Loops
Great organizations and great churches adopt a pattern of constant change. They intentionally organize themselves to allow for nimbleness, flexibility, and responsiveness. They tweak, tinker, build on islands of strength and innovate. They quickly turn vision into reality allowing them to get to the next iteration faster. Making the right change, however hinges on having…
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Why Church Health Matters and 14 Ways to Measure It
A few years ago, Tony Morgan and The Unstuck Group set out to help pastors get a clearer understanding of the health of their churches, believing access to a better scorecard for ministry would show pastors where they were making an impact and where their churches might be stuck. That desire led to the first…
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A Church’s Health Cannot Be Determined By Its Size
It is easy to become obsessed with church growth. Attendance is a number we can quickly see, measure, and compare. But we should never mistake attendance for more than what it is: a measure of the number of people attending, not the overall health of the church. A church’s health cannot be determined by its…
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How to Change the Results at your Church Before they Happen
Management expert Peter Drucker once said, “What gets measured gets improved.” In other words, if you can define how things have performed in the past and define your current reality then you should be able to make changes and improve future results. To a large extent this is true, but not always. Churches measure what…
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November’s Top 5 Posts on Helping Churches Make Vision Real
Thank you! You made these the most popular posts on “Helping Churches Make Vision Real,” during the month of November! #1 5 Reasons we Started from Scratch with our Website At Sun Valley we recently just completed a ground up redesign and launch of our website. Here are 5 reasons why we did, and you…