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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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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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Avoiding Ministry Failure: 5 Questions to Ask when you do a Ministry Pre-mortem

Leave a Comment / change managemenet, Church Growth, Leadership, Ministry, planning / By Charles Stone

Ministry initiatives in the church often fail. A simple planning tool called the pre-mortem, however, can minimize ministry failure. In a recent post I suggested 7 good reasons to conduct the pre-mortem, a tool credited to Dr. Gary Klein. A pre-mortem is an exercise that assumes your plan spectacularly fails and considers beforehand what might go wrong.

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7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem

3 Comments / Church Growth, Leadership, Ministry, Uncategorized / By Charles Stone

Jesus recognized the role good planning plays in life and ministry. He said, Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Will he not first sit down and estimate the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it? (Luke 14.28) Unfortunately, lack of planning often torpedoes otherwise good ministry ideas. Scientist Gary Klein, author of

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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

Ask Yourself these 7 Simple Questions to Clarify your Personal Values

Avoiding Ministry Failure: 5 Questions to Ask when you do a Ministry Pre-mortem

7 Benefits of an Often Overlooked Planning Tool: the Pre-mortem

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