Why Your Church Needs Processes and Systems
September 20, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsAs I work with churches I have observed that one of the significant differences between big and small, healthy and... Continue Reading
Author Archives for Jim Baker
The Time Crunch Process – Four Steps To Cope With Overload
September 13, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsEvery church I visit, it seems that ministers keep getting busier. The work backs up, quality goes down and stress... Continue Reading
Six Exercises To Determine Your Priorities
September 6, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsThe key to time management is priority management. Focusing on a few priorities allows you to experience the counterintuitive biblical... Continue Reading
A Proven Approach To Innovative Strategies
August 30, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsInnovative strategies are often characteristic of growing and high impact companies, organizations and churches. Year in and year out these... Continue Reading
A Simple Planning Process
August 23, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsIt has been said, if you don’t know where you are going, any path will take you there. And, if... Continue Reading
Evolutionary or Revolutionary Planning?
August 16, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsThings stay the same unless they change. Change is required for progress and planning is essential to progress – no... Continue Reading
The P.A.U.S.E Approach to Cooperative Negotiation
August 9, 2016 1:00 pm Leave your thoughtsPastors have learned that where two or more are gathered, there will be conflict. This means if you avoid addressing... Continue Reading
How To Discover The Appropriate Conflict Management Style
August 2, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsAs we noted in the post The Five Choices We Make In Conflict Resolution, conflict management is essential to effective... Continue Reading
A Log Work Process
July 26, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsOur shadow self is any part of ourselves that we try to hide or deny because it seems socially or... Continue Reading
Four Principles and Questions for Conflict Resolution Conversations
July 19, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsKen Sande is an attorney and the president and founder of Peacemaker Ministries. He has helped hundreds of churches and... Continue Reading
The Five Choices We Make in Conflict Resolution
July 12, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsConflict abounds in the church. Because no two individuals have exactly the same expectations, needs, perspectives and desires, conflict is... Continue Reading
A Church Conflict Resolution Procedure
July 5, 2016 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsThe church, like any organization, is not immune to conflict and disagreement. Regretfully, church members practice many unhealthy methods for... Continue Reading
