By Brian Dodridge
It’s happened to you. You had meetings planned, objectives to complete, and even a few “I hope to get to” projects in your head. You had scheduled them neatly on your calendar.
Then it happens.
Something outside your control enters your life, and messes with ...
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Pastors
Why You Should “Flip the Classroom” in Your Church –
In a survey of over 2,000 pastors and church leaders, four challenges hindered leadership training and development: they don’t know how, they and their people don’t have time, they don’t have a framework, and they don’t have the resources.1
While we do not believe you can ...
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Four Words From Jesus that Will Change the Way You Lead –
By Michael Kelley
There is no insecurity in the Son of God.
He’s not like us. We subtly beg for compliments, we subversively week affirmation, we passive aggressively look for allies – but not Jesus. Jesus knows what He’s about. And He knows that what He offers is the only ...
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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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Snorkeling and the Shallow Soul –
By Josh Patterson
Scuba diving and snorkeling are close cousins but have a fundamental difference: depth. And depth defines the experience. Snorkelers enjoy the views as they skim the surface of the water. The colors and sea-life are visible but at a distance. The surface seems ...
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The Importance of Aligning Your Church’s Systems –
Systems are often the least favorite subject for two different kinds of people: innovators and keepers of the status quo. To the innovator, systems seem antiquated and cumbersome, a quagmire of policies and procedures that will only slow down your church. To the keepers of the ...
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