Stop Using Volunteers and Start Developing Leaders
We’re all guilty of simply using volunteers to get stuff done once in awhile, but we’re not called to use volunteers, we’re called to develop people. Time to make the shift to developing volunteer leaders.
How We Eliminated Fights About Money in our Marriage
Fights about money are the most common conflicts in marriage, but they don’t have to be. Take the tension out of finances with these 5 simple strategies.
Beyond Youth Pastors: Our NextGen Staffing Experiment – Part 2
Moving beyond traditional age-based staffing, come see how our church is experimenting with a new NextGen staffing structure to influence the younger generation.
Beyond Youth Pastors: Our NextGen Staffing Experiment – Part 1
In less than 50 years, youth pastors have become an essential piece of almost every church staffing structure. At first glance, this looks like a pretty good way to invest in the young, but is this always the best way to do it? If we re-wrote our NextGen staffing structures from scratch, what could we come up with?
You Don’t Have to Sign Your Kid Up For That
Most parents live with an underlying fear of inadequacy or incompetency when trying to raise their children. Am I doing this right? Do I need to do for my kids what I see other parents doing for theirs? Does everybody need to approve of my parenting style?
What if we could be free of this parenting guilt?
Pursuing the Perfect Fit: Our Church Hiring Process
If you’ve been in the church for any amount of time, you have probably experienced the fallout of a poor church hiring process that ultimately put the wrong person in a leadership position. Read about where our church is at in the pursuit of a perfect hire and what our current process looks like.
3 Ways Your Brain is Hijacking Your Hiring Process
While it may be tempting to “trust your gut” when hiring church staff or selecting people for your team, research has shown over and over again just how unreliable this gut really is. What’s a better way?
Time to Rethink the Wedding
Imagine for a moment that the concept of marriage was a brand new idea and that you and I had been given the monumental task of brainstorming and implementing a rite of passage into this new chapter of a person’s life. If the process of planning a wedding had never been tackled before, what would you do?
Lead from the Middle Pt. 3 – Leading Up
Leading Up – How to Impress and Influence Your Boss. Part III in a 3- part series on why Influence matters more than Authority. We don’t need to wait till we’re at the top in order to lead change in our organizations. Let’s learn to lead from the middle today.
Lead From the Middle Pt. 2 – Leading Across
Leading Across – How to Positively Influence Coworkers. Part II in a 3- part series on why Influence matters more than Authority. We don’t need to wait till we’re at the top in order to lead change in our organizations. Let’s learn to lead from the middle today.