Every role in your church is an interim position. Life happens. Someone gets sick, moves away, or gets burned out from being on point every week. True succession planning focuses on leadership reproduction, not replacement.
Imagine it’s Saturday at 8pm and you’re the preschool ...
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Leadership
Stop Doing Church Announcements and Start Inspiring Mission Engagement –
By David Drury
Here’s the problem: church announcements aren’t working.
The bullet list of announcements is invariably too long, it's at the most skipped time of the service, the least skilled communicators often end up delivering the information, it is redundant to other ...
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Six Steps to a Better Workplace –
by Matt Brown
So much of our lives are spent at work. This means that the quality of our workplace relationships will deeply affect our well being.
Leaders (aka - bosses) play a key role in establishing a healthy workplace culture - one built on mutual trust and working ...
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How to Know If You’re a Disconnected Leader –
By Bob Bumgarner
A smart phone without wireless or Internet service isn’t very helpful. It gives the appearance of being useful, only to leave its user feeling frustrated and disconnected.
Disconnected leaders are like that.
We become disconnected when we get sucked into the ...
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7 Personality Types of Sick Churches –
by Thom Rainer
Sick churches become dying churches.
Dying churches become closed churches.
Those statements are factual unless some type of change or intervention takes place. But intervention or change is unlikely unless the church recognizes that it is sick.
In simple ...
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4 Types of Succession in the Church –
Most churches and organizations plan for succession in their leadership pipeline. However, many only focus on senior leadership roles. Odds are strong that succession in all levels of your leadership pipeline occurs more often than you realize.
Has a volunteer or leader in your ...
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