Ministry Archives - Charles Stone

Are You a Catalytic Leader?

2 Comments / Church Staff, Leadership, Ministry, Pastors / By Charles Stone

The book, The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leadership Organizations by Ori Brafman and Rod Beckstrom, highlights the value of what the authors call, ‘leaderless’ organizations. Although I don’t advocate leaderless organizations, one chapter describes tools that successful non-leader leaders use to catalyze their respective organizations. These qualities also apply to catalytic leaders. I’ve summarized them below. Qualities […]

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A Simple Way to Deal with Criticism

4 Comments / Leadership, Life Balance, Ministry / By Charles Stone

In the heat of the moment when someone criticizes us, it’s easy to react and make things worse. Too often when I’ve received a critical comment at church I’ve gotten defensive or said something in return that I wish I could take back. Has that every happened to you? When that happens, what can we do

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What Would you Do for $10,000,000? How Leaders Build Integrity

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

What are you willing to do for $10,000,000? James Patterson and Peter Kim published the book, The Day America Told the Truth in 1991. In their research they posed this question to 2,000 Americans in an anonymous survey. These are the results. Would abandon their entire family (25%) Would abandon their church (25%) Would become prostitutes for a

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Reprimand at the Moment or Look for a Teachable Moment?

2 Comments / Church Staff, Leadership, Ministry, Pastors / By Charles Stone

If you lead people in any way … in a church, a business, or a team, those you lead will screw up, fail, and often disappoint you. When that happens, and that employee or team member needs correction, when is the best time to correct? In the past, when a staff person who reported to me made

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Great Staff Meetings Require these 7 Rules

1 Comment / Church Staff, communication, Ministry, planning / By Charles Stone

Leaders can’t lead without meeting with others. Sometimes meetings go well. Sometimes they don’t. Often team dynamics derail productive meetings simply because someone misspoke or misheard. As I began to realize this, several years ago I asked a psychologist to help me create some rules for talking in our staff meetings. I call them conversational ethics. Here are the 7

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Ministry

Are You a Catalytic Leader?

A Simple Way to Deal with Criticism

What Would you Do for $10,000,000? How Leaders Build Integrity

Reprimand at the Moment or Look for a Teachable Moment?

Great Staff Meetings Require these 7 Rules

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