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Laying The Foundation: The Growth Of A Leader (Part Four)
2007-03-15 15:00:00 This is Part 4 of the Laying the Foundation series on Thursday Leadership Lesson from National Community Church. As we build our groups and ministries, we must ensure that we are building on a solid foundation. This series will explore characteristics of leaders who lay and build on firm foundations. Today, we ... More About: Growth , Four , Grow
How To Make Values Live In Your Organization (Part One)
2007-03-14 15:00:00 Begin Your Values Alignment Process Values exist in every workplace. Your organization?s culture is partially the outward demonstration of the values currently existing in your workplace. The question you need to ask is whether these existing values are creating the workplace you desire. Do these values promote a culture of extraordinary customer care by happy, motivated, ... More About: How To , Organization , Live , Part
Recruiting Through Marketing
2007-03-13 21:00:00 You may not realize it, but you are marketing your ministry to the members of your church with everything that you say and do. Simply, marketing is the method of convincing someone that what you offer (i.e. volunteer opportunities) is what they want to do. The way you market your ministry can ... More About: Marketing , Market , Recruiting , Through , Mark
Build A Strategic Framework: Mission, Vision and Values (Part One)
2007-03-13 15:00:00 Strategy and Vision Statements Both people and organizations need to establish a strategic framework for significant success. This framework consists of: a vision for your future, a mission that defines what you are doing, values that shape your actions, strategies that zero in on your key success approaches, and goals and action plans to guide your daily, weekly and monthly actions. Your ... More About: Work , Miss , Part , Trat , Sion
Twelve Tips For Team Building
2007-03-12 21:00:00 How to Make Team s Effective People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team, and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. Belonging to a team, in the broadest sense, is a result of feeling part of something larger ... More About: Building , Tips , Build , Twelve
Building Self Discipline (Part One)
2007-03-12 15:00:00 The Five Pillars of Self -Discipline The five pillars of self-discipline are: Acceptance, Willpower, Hard Work, Industry, and Persistence. If you take the first letter of each word, you get the acronym ?A WHIP? ? a convenient way to remember them, since many people associate self-discipline with whipping themselves into shape. Each day of the ... More About: Building , Part , Self-Discipline
Discerning Your Church?s Hidden Core Values
2007-03-11 21:00:00 For any ministry leader it is hugely important to have a good grasp on who you are as a church, for a junior high pastor, knowing what the ethos and values of your church are before proceeding to define the values of your ministry can be hugely beneficial in avoiding headaches and conflicts down the ... More About: Church , Your , Core , Values , Hidden
Good Leadership Requires A Moderate Amount Of Assertiveness
2007-03-11 15:00:00 A recent study found that organizational leaders who are perceived as under-assertive or highly assertive tend to be viewed as less effective. The results indicate that too much or too little perceived assertiveness may be the most common weakness in would-be leaders. The study appears in the February 2007 issue of the Journal of Personality and ... More About: Leadership , Good , Ness , Ship , Assertiveness
Four Things Young Adults Want In A Church
2007-03-10 21:09:00 LifeWay Research conducted a survey among people age 18 to 34 that discovered a major factor causing young adults to leave the church is the church?s inability to minister to them in their transition stage. Jim Johnston of LifeWay Christian Resources identifies four needs among young adults: 1. Relationship ?It just so happens that this generation?s biggest ... More About: Church , Young , Adult , Things , Four
ALAMO!
2007-03-10 18:00:00 All you need for this great game is a pretty big room and some gator skin balls (or balls that don’t hurt when you throw them at people!) You put about five or six balls in the middle of the room. All participants stand around the outside line (if in a gymnasium) or touching the wall if ...
Chase The Lion: The Guts of Leadership
2007-03-10 15:00:00 Benaiah chased a lion down into a pit. Then, despite the snow and slippery ground, he caught the lion and killed it. (2 Samuel 23:20) Scripture doesn’t tell us what Benaiah was doing or where he was going when he encountered this lion. And we don’t know his frame of mind. But Scripture ... More About: Leadership , Lion , Chase , Ship , Lead
Making Strategy Stick (Part Three)
2007-03-10 00:04:02 WARNING!! This is a pretty long article. Barrier 2: Decision Paralysis Most people in an organization aren?t in charge of formulating strategy; they just have to understand the strategy, internalize it, and use it to make decisions. But many strategies are not concrete enough to resolve a well-established psychological bias called decision paralysis. Psychologists have uncovered situations ... More About: Strategy , King , Part , Trat , Stra
The Art Of Strategic Thinking
2007-03-09 18:03:01 Chances are, what your church faces is beyond the reach of what you’ve done in the past to accomplish its mission. Therefore you need to go beyond traditional means of strategic planning if you’re going to be effective. In Becoming A Stra tegic Leader, Richard Hughes and Katherine Beatty invite us to ... More About: Think , King , Trat , Strategic
Productivity Boost: How To Get Up At 5AM
2007-03-09 00:01:02 I have been an early-riser for over a year now. Monday through Friday I wake up at 5:00 AM without hitting the snooze button even once. I never take naps and rarely feel tired throughout the day. The following is my advice on how to start your day (everyday) at 5:00 AM.The idea of waking ... More About: How To , Product , Productivity , Boost , Prod
Laying The Foundation: The Growth Of A Leader (Part Three)
2007-03-09 00:01:02 This is Part 3 of the Laying the Foundation series on Thursday Leadership Lessons from National Community Church. As we build our groups and ministries, we must ensure that we are building on a solid foundation. This series will explore characteristics of leaders who lay and build on firm foundations. Today, we ... More About: Growth , Three , Grow
The ADD/ADHD Checklist
2007-03-08 12:00:05 I know a lot of people involved in junior high ministry and youth ministry who claim some form of ADD/ADHD, I work with two people who have been diagnosed and the numbers of those with some form are growing. That’s probably due to increased proper diagnosis and reporting but nonetheless here’s a checklist to ... More About: List , Check , The A
Assumptions
2007-03-08 12:00:05 Ever start down a planning road, get pretty far down it, and then add a team member to the discussion only to find that what you’ve assumed as how-it-will-work is not at all what they’re assuming? It happens to all of us, whether we’re talking about strategy at work…or planning how we’ll ... More About: Assumptions
Achieving Goals By Improving Your Character
2007-03-06 23:58:04 Often a change in character is a crucial part of shifting your identity to become more congruent with your goals and intentions. For example, suppose you want to become more successful in your career, and you set a goal to reach a certain position. Maybe the main reason you haven?t yet reached that position ... More About: Goa , Goals , Your , Goal , Character
How Does A Genius Think?
2007-03-06 17:57:02 ?Good thinkers do not necessarily think harder, longer, or more exactly; they have simply learned to think in directions that are more likely to be productive.? - Unknown What is the quality of your thinking? I recently stumbled upon the book ?Marketing Geni us? by Peter Fisk, who describes the following insights into how ... More About: Think , Genius
The Importance Of Enthusiasm
2007-03-05 23:56:01 Mark McGuinness, a business coach at Wishful Thinking, sheds some light on the importance of enthusiasm in the workplace. Many supervisors (and workplaces) stress the importance of ?confidence.? Mark is convinced that ?enthusiasm? is far better to promote than confidence, ?I think the word ?confidence? creates more problems than it solves. I usually advise clients ... More About: Port , Thus , Enthusiasm , Import
9 Ways To Devastate Productivity
2007-03-05 23:56:01 We talk a lot here about how to increase your productivity, get more done, and be more effective. But what if that isn’t your goal. What if you really just want to completely obliterate the productivity of your co-worker? In this unusual post we are going to look at nine ways to ... More About: Product , Productivity , State , Stat , Prod
Re-Evaluate Your Goals
2007-03-05 11:55:02 Founder of Risktaking for Success, Dee McCorey, has shared with us the questionaire she uses when dealing with clients who need to make a big decision about their goals: To persist or reinvent? Ask yourself these 10 questions and explore whether you might be pushing against a slab of wood with a lock and a peephole that ... More About: Goa , Goals , Your , Goal
Coneball
2007-03-03 23:53:10 This is a pretty cool game that we created for camp this summer. First, you divide your youth group into equal teams. One team plays against the other. Each person needs to match up with a person on the other team. Then, they are to either get tied together by the wrist, or they can just join hands. A cone ... More About: Ball
Five Streams Of The Emerging Church
2007-03-03 17:52:14 Key elements of the most controversial and misunderstood movement in the church today. More About: Church , Stream , Merging , Emerging Church , Five
Making Strategy Stick (Part Two)
2007-03-02 23:03:05 WARNING!! This is a pretty long article. Barrier One: The Curse Of Knowledge The ?Curse of Knowledge? is best illustrated by a psychology experiment conducted in 1990 by a Ph.D. candidate named Elizabeth Newton. She designed a simple game in which she assigned her subjects to one of two roles: ?tappers? or ?listeners.?1 Tappers received a ... More About: Strategy , King , Part , Trat , Stra
Worship That Reorders Reality
2007-03-02 23:03:05 The National Pastors Convention in San Diego is over and I?ve returned to the frozen north. But I still have one last reflection from the conference. Mark Labberton, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, California, spoke on Thursday night about the intersection of worship and justice.Drawing mainly from the Old Testament prophets Daniel and ... More About: Reality , Hat , Worship , Real , That
Getting From Here To There
2007-03-02 11:02:14 So you’ve worked hard to develop a mission statement. You even have a vision statement that’s your very own (not just borrowed from someone else). And now you’re ready to launch. Sort’ve. The problem many organizations are running into is the lack of a clear strategy that will actually ... More About: Here , There
Laying The Foundation: Leadership 101 (Part Two)
2007-03-02 11:02:14 This is Part 2 of the Laying the Foundation series on Thursday Lead ership Lesson. As we build our groups and ministries, we must ensure that we are building on a solid foundation. This series will explore characteristics of leaders who lay and build on firm foundations. Today, we will talk about ... More About: Ship
[SHIFT Conference] Session One Thoughts
2007-02-28 23:00:10 Darren Whitehead’s Session Shift - major shifts in culture and student ministry. Hear some of those shifts - affect what we do, how we teach, how we do evangelism, how we encourage students, how it affects our own personal lives. Where are you sensing God’s movement - your personal shift? Evolution of Culture video - pop culture where ... More About: Thoughts , Thought , Sion , Ferenc
How To Become An Early Riser (Part One)
More articles from this author:2007-02-28 23:00:10 It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom. - Aristotle Are morning people born or made? In my case it was definitely made. In my early 20s, I rarely went to bed before midnight, and I?d almost always sleep in late. I usually didn?t start ... More About: How To , Come , Part , Early , Rise 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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