Personal Development that’s provided by your ministry or organization offers the least resistance but often short circuits what’s actually needed to become more effective as a ministry leader. a simple chart: On the Y-axis is developmental experiences, which I define as experiences that increase both your skill and capacity in some leadership related area–giving speeches …
How do you know when someone is ready to be apart of the change you seek to make? I’ve been around my kids a lot more in the last two months and the one word that comes to mind when I watch them is TOLERANCE–there is a clear point when they either receive too much …
“Braddock changed when the world started to change” The way the townspeople spoke about the past deeply struck me. I’ve heard those same sentiments in the church and in Campus Crusade–a desire for the good ole days, and a resistance toward newness or renewal. I’m excited about the young entrepreneurs I see in the church …
“Rather than creating some sort of idealized path structure that ignores history and tradition and human nature…look where the paths are already being formed by behavior and then formalize them.”–Paving the Cowpaths from the Designing Social Interfaces Blog Leaders must have a compelling vision and know where they want to go but those that see …
Tony Morgan created this awesome graphic on a recent post to illustrate two different models for team building and task completion: A couple reflections: Metrics related to the END GOAL are extremely difficult to generate. It takes time, focus, intentionality, and many other draining action verbs. Yet metrics tied to the end goal are absolutely …
Test the riskiest thing first. I love leading change but altering a ministry structure scares me. Changing a ministry structure has the same affects as remodeling a home or building–there’s tons of mess for a long time. We made two risky changes at Chico State to our bible study structure that both resulted in positive …
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If you are passionate about leading change then you constantly find yourself engaging people different than yourself. I often lead change poorly when I assume the person I’m seeking to persuade feels and believes the same things I do. When I’ve sought to understand and discern their differences and shared my vision for change in …
“We should not dictate to our audience which device we want our audience to lose.”—Pioneers of Social Gaming I captured this video at South by Southwest Interactive during the Pioneers of Social Gaming seminar. Especially after reading through the comments on the Changing Evangelism post I wanted to share something related to the idea of …
