Last week, the LifeWay Leadership team hosted Pipeline: Recruit, Develop, Repeat in Nashville, Tennessee. Church leaders learned from Carey Nieuwhof, Albert Tate, Clayton King, Thom Rainer, Tami Heim, Léonce Crump, Shannon Miles, Kevin Peck, Josh Patterson, Danny Franks, and Todd ...
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Leadership Pipeline
Recruit, Develop, and Repeat the Process
If you don’t recruit leaders, you have no one to develop.
In the Great Commission, Jesus commands His followers to go and make disciples, who in turn make disciples, who in turn make disciples. This commissioning is not for an elite class of leaders or pastors. It’s for all ...
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How Do You Recruit and Develop Volunteers? –
Ephesians 4 says that the calling of church leaders is not simply to do the work of ministry but to equip “the saints for the work of ministry.” A study by LifeWay Research revealed that most church leaders affirm the importance of training and development but only 1 in 4 ...
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Provide Your Church a Training Map, Not Menu –
When it comes to recruiting skills and training, we often focus on transferring knowledge. I would like to shift that toward a focus on competency and mastery. Traditional education is concerned with display of knowledge through testing. Consider how a person spends years in a ...
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Stretch Assignments –
By Daniel Im
I have three young children, so our house is well stocked with Band-Aids.
Not adhesive bandages, but Band-Aids…you know, the name brand kind that have Disney-Pixar characters on them. Now before you go and think I’m raising entitled children, let me explain the ...
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Three Bad Excuses for Avoiding Leadership Development –
By Eric Geiger
Great leaders intuitively know they are responsible for future leadership, and all leaders have heard these catch phrases: “There is no success without succession” and “Work yourself out of a job and you will always have a job.” Yet few leaders plan and prioritize ...
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