Tag: team
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Leading Your Church Staff Team Through the COVID-19 Disruption
The first couple weeks of leading through the COVID-19 crisis the staff team at Sun Valley Community Church (the church I have the honor of serving at) has been fantastic! I’m so proud of how hard they’ve been working, how quickly they’ve been able to pivot, and how well they’ve been pastoring people through this.…
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5 Church Leadership Lessons I Learned from Moses’ Father-in-Law
I know that’s not a very intriguing or sexy title…no clickbait there. However, to this day, the best leadership book I’ve ever read is the Bible (and like you, I’ve read a lot of leadership books). One of the most interesting leadership interactions I’ve ever read about is out of Exodus chapter 18. Moses is…
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Getting Your Church Staff Team Unstuck
You can have a great vision, but if the team isn’t healthy and high-performing, the church won’t experience health and growth. More than ten years ago (gosh that’s hard to believe) I started The Unstuck Group. This was after being a part of several great teams both before and during my life in ministry. My…
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Top Posts of 2019 #7: “How to Build a Problem Solving Culture at your Church”
I mentioned when I began this countdown that team culture came up. I’ve fielded a lot of questions from church leaders on this topic and this post resonated with those conversations. The best ideas don’t always come from where you think they come from. In the Church we tend to hire professional pastors who are…
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Blame Goes Up and Credit Goes Down
It’s one thing when people have to follow you because you sign their paycheck or you’re the “boss.” It’s another thing when people want to follow you. Becoming the king of leader that people want to follow is the kind of stuff you should be paying attention to and spending your time on. People want…