4 qualities of churches or organizations that have IT
Laser focus:
Jim Collins “What can you be the best at?”
In order to reach those that no one are reaching you have to do what no one else is doing. Life Church’s 5 focuses are weekend worship, small groups, kids ministry, student ministry, and missions. They don’t do [...]
Drucker “Leadership is responsibility not money, fame, and power.”
Leaders of the 21st century you will be able to…
Align. Around people around mission and values.
Empower. Unleash their power.
Serve. Leaders are there to serve not be served.
Collaboration. The world’s problems are too big to be solved by ourselves.
6 Steps to becoming an empowering leader
Understand purpose of your [...]
Here are a few of my take aways for this session.
Haugen
How do you reward best performers and get rid of those who aren’t? There is no distinction between what is not good for the mission and what is not good for the person.
Where do you take the pain of not being able to rescue them [...]
“At an early age I saw leadership that mattered.” Referring to the work of leaders in South Africa in 1985. We all want our leadership to matter.
“Just because I am leading and people are following doesn’t mean that I am leading in the things that matter to God.”
Are Jesus and I really interested in the [...]
Over time a leaders can master the art of decision making.
Best book on decision book he has read Judgment by Tichy and Bennnis.
Do you have a framework to make decisions?
Traditionally Christian leaders ask:
1. Does the Bible say anything about this?
2. What do my leaders or advisors say?
3. Pain, Gain, and Experience. Chronicle your decision making [...]
What a great weekend at Watermark. Kyle Thompson pegged everyone between the eyes in our North Dallas audience as he talked about, amoung other things, how joy doesn’t come from financial security or a ruthless self discipline which helps you achieve your goals. He shared a great story about hearing a sermon in Goma, Congo [...]
How do you continually remind your congregation that that they need to create seats during the full service at 11:00? Steve Vanderheide sent a quick email last week asking for volunteers for a shoot and this is what we showed on Sunday. I thought is was a really creative was to keep this in front [...]
