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Does your Team have a Trust Deficit? These 10 Questions will Tell You

Leave a Comment / Leadership, Ministry, Pastors / By Charles Stone

Trust: the belief that someone is reliable, good, honest or effective (Merriam-Webster). Healthy ministry teams make trust building a priority. Patrick Lencioni, one of today’s best writers on leadership, believes that absence of trust is the biggest problem among dysfunctional teams (see his book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team). Stephen M. R. Covey wrote […]

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5 Ways to Build Trust with your Team

2 Comments / change managemenet, Church Staff, Leadership, Ministry / By Charles Stone

Without trust, a church staff or ministry team simply won’t function at its best. In a recent Harvard Business Review blog the author quoted some dismal statistics about the workplace which probably hold true in the ministry realm as well. In this post I suggest 5 ways to build trust with your team. Photo by Civilian Scrabble According

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5 Telling Questions to Ask at Your Next Staff Meeting

2 Comments / change managemenet, Church Growth, Church Staff, Leadership, Pastors, planning / By Charles Stone

Some time ago I read Andy Stanley’s book Deep and Wide. It’s a must-read for every ministry leader. In one chapter he poses 5 questions that are deeply telling about a church’s direction and impact. At your next staff meeting, pose these five questions and give your staff the freedom to answer honestly. Better yet, email them

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Ask Yourself these 7 Simple Questions to Clarify your Personal Values

Leave a Comment / Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry, Pastors / By Charles Stone

Every pastor needs what I call “true north” values, core convictions we refuse to compromise even when external pressures tempt us to do so. Such values are like the difference between a compass and a gyrocompass. A simple compass points to true north because it relies on magnetic north. Unless, that is, you bring a

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Data Overload: Is Your Church Guilty of Infobesity?

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, communication, Leadership, Life Balance, planning / By Charles Stone

In today’s world we’re bombarded with information overload. One author coined this problem infobesity (Pearrow, 2012) to describe this data overload. When we get too much data our thinking brain shuts down to new information. British psychologist Dr. David Lewis coined a term to describe what happens from infobesity as ‘Information Fatigue Syndrome.’ Symptoms include

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Does your Team have a Trust Deficit? These 10 Questions will Tell You

5 Ways to Build Trust with your Team

5 Telling Questions to Ask at Your Next Staff Meeting

Ask Yourself these 7 Simple Questions to Clarify your Personal Values

Data Overload: Is Your Church Guilty of Infobesity?

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