Archive for • Coach’s Conundrums
• Coach’s Conundrum #12
Coach’s Conundrum #12 Seven Times in Seven Places! This is not original with me. I first heard it from Karl Bastian, and I have been using it ever since. It just makes sense to me, knowing how much communication is needed in children’s ministry to just get the simplest message to stick. So here is […]
• Moving Forward, Stepping UP
Moving Forward, Stepping UP Sharon and I took an Alaskan Cruise this year for our vacation. Of course, the Holland America Cruise Ship Zuiderdam was just huge. One of our off repeated experiences every day was to leave our room to navigate our way from deck to deck. There were really two ways to do […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #10
Coach’s Conundrums #10. Good Ideas Are My Ideas, And Bad Ideas Are Your Ideas! Over the years I have learned that I am not the only repository of good ideas. As a leader, you have to know how to solicit ideas from others that can help you to solve problems, but it’s not easy. From […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #9
Coach’s Conundrums This is a new series: my collection of pithy principles that need some explanation. The implementing of these conundrums could alter your paradigm for children’s ministry or influence the way you approach kids. Check out the other eight of the Coach’s Conundrums. #9. Do what you LOVE what you do Once you begin […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #8
Coach’s Conundrum (a series) This is a new series: my collection of pithy principles that need some explanation. The implementing of these conundrums could alter your paradigm for children’s ministry or influence the way you approach kids. (look at the Tab Coach’s Conundrums for the other seven) # 8. No Team Ever Wins When Each […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #7
7. “You can’t expect different results by repeating what you have always done.” This conundrum might have something to do with not being able to solve the Rubik’s Cube. You keep trying to solve the puzzle, without a clue of how to solve it. One just keeps trying it over and over, continuing the rotation, […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #6
6. Little Is More; Is More Too Much? If Little is More, then why is More not equal to Less? But Less is More. So More can be Too Much when Little is More? Is this more than double-talk or a “play on words?” Is there some meaning here? This Conundrum is not universal in […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #5
5. “You Have Not Taught, until They Have Learned!” This has become a paradox for any “would-be” teacher. Just because you formally teach anything does not mean that the student actually learns what was taught. If you are just talking, maybe no one is learning?
• Coach’s Conundrum #4
4. “It’s Better to have a Big Goal and Miss It, Than to have No Goal and Hit It.” This is sort of the play-on-words, but there is a big truth behind it. We accomplish more by trying to work a plan than we do by having no plan. Moving forward is better than moving […]
• Coach’s Conundrum #3
3. “Work expands to fill the time allowed.” This is something that continues to impress me, I find that time pressure is the motivational trigger that compresses the time a project needs for completion. The extremes do occur, too much time and too little time, but for this conundrum to work, we determine the pace […]