Assessing the Health of Your Eight Organic Church Systems
October 20, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsToday much is being written about the importance of the church being “organic” as well as being “systems” based. Using the... Continue Reading
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Three Easy To Use Church Staff Surveys
October 13, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsIn our last post, Five Keys to Successful Church Staff Surveys, we examined how to plan, design and implement effective church... Continue Reading
Five Keys To Successful Church Staff Surveys
October 6, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsEmployees are essential to the success of any church. Surveys can provide a means of gathering the information needed to... Continue Reading
30 Feedback Questions For Church Strategic Planning
September 22, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsKenneth Blanchard has said that “feedback is the breakfast of leaders.” A key component of any church strategic planning process... Continue Reading
Church Staff Interview Questions Every Personnel Committee Should Know
September 15, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsEffective interviewers of prospective church staff don’t consider themselves excellent interviewers just because they are a “good judge of character.”... Continue Reading
100 Soul Care Questions for Ministers
September 8, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsThe greatest need of the hour for today’s minister may very well be a more intentional approach to their... Continue Reading
Measuring What Matters – 100 Meaningful Church Measurements
September 1, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsFinding the right measurements and defining the results to be measured is a significant challenge for the church. The things... Continue Reading
25 Easy To Use Church Strategic Planning Exercises
August 25, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsStephen Covey is noted for saying, “Without involvement, there is no commitment.” Mark it down, asterisk it, circle it, and... Continue Reading
When Ministry Pruning You Better Wear Gloves
August 18, 2015 6:07 am Leave your thoughtsAfter moving to Northern New Mexico and discovering several fruit trees and rose bushes in my back yard, I am... Continue Reading
20 Questions To Discern Good From Best
August 11, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughts“Good is the enemy of great” is the first sentence of Jim Collins’ business best seller, Good to Great. Collins... Continue Reading
Change These Three Factors or Face Obsolescence
August 4, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughts“It is not the strongest species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the ones who are the most responsive... Continue Reading
The Pain Pill Doctor Approach To Change Leadership
July 28, 2015 6:06 am Leave your thoughtsSuppose I wake up one morning with a crick in my neck that won’t go away. I go to my... Continue Reading
