Archive for • Leadership Qualities
• Leadership: Ownership
Leadership: Ownership How do you create ownership in programming? How do create an environment that is conducive to ownership? How do you deal with saboteurs that seek and destroy a good plan? These are significant questions when it comes to developing new programs in children’s ministry. There seems to be three ways that churches do […]
• 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 […]
• Leadership: Isolation
Leadership: Isolation Why would the subject of Isolation be included in a list of desirable qualities for leadership? We are surrounded everywhere by sounds and noises, in cars, in home, in elevators, at work, answering machines, shopping malls and restaurants. Being alone in such a social world is different. Isolation is the opposite, a removing […]
• Book Review: Mentoring
Mentoring: The Promise of Relational Leadership By Walter C. Wright Jr., Paternoster Press, 2006, 160 pages Mentoring is a legacy book, a work of a life of being mentored and a life of giving back. This work of mentoring is all about relationship and accountability. For those without a mentor, this volume might just push […]
• The Role of Inclusion
The Role of Inclusion We believe that all are created equal and that all should be offered the benefits of salvation in the economy of God. Our relationship with Jesus extends to all. All are included, there is room for all, but it is also true, that not all will respond. However, those who do […]
• Measuring Kidmin Success
Measuring Kidmin Success There seems to be some confusion about what constitutes Success for the Children’s Minister. We all think about it. We want to be successful at what we do and be known for that success. I think part of this confusion comes from our American culture, which basically says…Success has to do with […]
• Check List for A Better VBS
VBS Checklist: A Tool for a Better VBS The annual routine of doing VBS has an Upside…doing it BETTER than the years before. The more years of VBS experience you get, the more real improvements you should be making in your program and leadership. Here is my new VBS Checklist that could help you to […]
• Leaders: A Delegation Question
Leadership: A Delegation Question Here’s My Answer…to the Delegation Question! Okay, here’s my question, How do you have a high standard and expect them (those you delegate to) to do less at the same time? Isn’t that expecting them “to do less” the same as having a lower standard? Regarding your good delegation question. My […]
• Sixteen Steps to the Next Level
Sixteen Steps To The Next Level What follows are my Sixteen Steps that will provide a basis to move your children’s ministry to the next level. It is admittedly, impossible to work on all these steps at one time. However, if you would make it your ambition to seriously work on these steps your will […]
• Leaders: Taking Risks #12
Leadership: Taking Risks Taking risks in leadership can be portrayed as reckless abandon, thoughtless, and impetuous decision making that involves danger. However, risk taking that is thoughtful, calculated and purposeful with due consideration to the amount of risk, is to be preferred option. All change involves some risk. However, only doing what is safe, doing […]
