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Leading and managing your staff secret #2: Care deeply and relate personally

When I asked my staff for tips to give senior leaders on working with their staff, they came up with five. Here’s number two: Excellent team leaders care deeply about their team members and relate to them personally. One very easy way to do this is to take one...

Leading and managing your staff secret #1: Value highly and develop fully

Church Development, Developing, Leadership

A while back, I was asked to give a talk on how to work with your staff. So I took my team out for dinner and asked, “What should I say?” Five main points came out of that conversation. They essentially wrote my whole talk for me and made me look really good. I’ll...

Vocabulary matters

Leadership

When I was pastoring a church, we used to have a membership class. However, we realized that by calling it membership class, that meant people had to pre-decide that they wanted to become members before attending. So we had people getting involved and hanging around...

Things I learned by working with inner city middle schoolers: part 5

Leadership

Lesson #5: Always bring backup. We were heading to a big theme park outing one morning, when my co-leader showed up really sick. I told him, “You don’t need to come. Go home and get some rest.” I unwisely thought one adult could handle six middle schoolers alone. And...

Things I learned by working with inner city middle schoolers: part 4

Leadership

When working with kids from the inner city, you have to celebrate the smallest wins. I’d work hard to find the one little thing a kid did right. They may have done 99 things wrong, but when their parent came to pick them up, I’d highlight the positive thing the kid...

Things I learned by working with inner city middle schoolers: part 3

Leadership

After working in the middle school youth ministry for a time, I launched a high school group with the graduating middle school students. In this context, I decided on a new goal: I wanted them to be on time. To me that didn’t seem much to ask, but asking wasn’t...

Leading and managing your staff secret #2: Care deeply and relate personally

Leading and managing your staff secret #1: Value highly and develop fully

Vocabulary matters

Things I learned by working with inner city middle schoolers: part 5

Things I learned by working with inner city middle schoolers: part 4

Things I learned by working with inner city middle schoolers: part 3

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