Archive for • Organization & Admin
• Getting More Done
Getting More Done, with Less Effort Because people live in constant motion, it’s easy to forget that we have a choice in everything we do. Balance coaching is about guiding students to make powerful life choices and to select the experiences they want most, rather than dashing about either at the mercy of circumstances or [...]
• Leaders: Art of Restart
Leaders: Art of Restart Because we work with people who sin, we understand something of the role of confession and forgiveness…this is a restart. For a person to put their life back together and move forward in right living, we extend some room to learn and some trial and error time. In our leadership roles [...]
• Next Step Is—Another Step!
Next Step Is—Just Another Step! “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs…one step at a time!” ~ Joe Girard The next step is easiest when you are running, but finding the next step is harder when you just stop, or get stuck! Then you might just discover [...]
• Creating A Policy Manual
Creating A Policy Manual Why have a Policy Manual for your Children’s Ministry? A Policy Manual is a working document that is revised and reviewed annually. It is not so much a final edition, but rather a work in progress. As your ministry grows and programs expand a Policy Manual should be revised and [...]
• Move the Rock!
Move the Rock There is an amazing phenomenon that only occurs in Death Valley. On Racetrack Playa, one can find sliding rocks on the riverbed. There seems to be no apparent explanation how these heavy rocks move along the dry parched ground. These rocks leave a rutted trail like they were pushed or pulled along [...]
• Show Me Your Work!
Show Me Your Work! Learning math was always a chore for me in school. It never really came easy for me. However, when the teacher required me to “show my work,” this added another dimension to my math skills. If somehow, I skipped a step in the process, but got the right answer by guessing, [...]
• Leadership: Recalculating
Leadership: Recalibrating (Take a Good Hard Look and Adjust) Every leader must learn to evaluate themselves and their ministry. This process can be both introspective and challenging. If you are part of a ministry that values an annual Performance Review, then you are familiar with being evaluating by another. However, there is nothing more invigorating [...]
• All Eyes Forward
All Eyes Forward: Getting the Attention of Kids How do you get and keep the attention of kids in a large group? We were running late by four hours on a Christmas short-term mission trip into Baja. We were bringing presents to the village children. There were nearly four hundred children of all ages waiting [...]
• Confessions of a Stuck Leader
Leadership: Confessions of A “Stuck” Leader After forty, plus, years in the ministry experience, I must confess I have been “stuck” many times. “Stuck” for me, is a kind of muddy quagmire experience that I can “wallow in” that basically renders me immobile to forward progress. It comes when I am over committed to big [...]
• What Stepping UP Means
What Stepping Up Means! Stepping UP is the concept in leadership that involves moving forward, but exerting more than normal walking energy to lift that other foot higher. It involves taking that extra effort to raise your game to another level. This can occur when people enhance the productivity of their existing activities and assets [...]
