Tag: team

  • The 2 Most Important Ingredients of a Winning Team

    The 2 Most Important Ingredients of a Winning Team

    You’ve probably heard this popular African Proverb before: “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” The reason this statement has become so popular and “gone global,” is that it resonates with us at a core level. We inherently know that it’s true; not just from a…

  • Breaking Through Your Capacity Lid

    Breaking Through Your Capacity Lid

    If you lead long enough eventually every leader and every organization will hit a leadership lid. You are going to outgrow your leadership skills and your organizational structures at some point. But what do you do when the lid at your church is a capacity lid? Capacity lids show up all over the place. Facilities:…

  • Mastering the Art of Facilitation

    Mastering the Art of Facilitation

    If you haven’t noticed leadership and leading young leaders in particular is changing. Peter Drucker, considered to be the father of modern management, actually predicted this shift. He once said that: “The leader of the past was a person who knew how to tell. The leader of the future will be a person who knows…

  • Leadership is a Team Sport

    Leadership is a Team Sport

    I find myself turning into one of those dads who brag on their kids. All four of them have strengths and things they’re brilliant at. But Lincoln, my 7-year old, is the athlete of the bunch. He’s fast, athletic, and is a winner (he gets it from his mom). He’s usually the smallest kid on…

  • How to Keep your Best Staff Members from Leaving

    One in two church staff members is open to new employment. At the Unstuck Group were shocked to learn this during our latest research on church staffing and structure. At the same time, our experience confirms that many church staff members are simply unsatisfied. If it’s true that half of staff members are willing to…