What are your criteria?

If you simply gather your team or pull people together to do an evaluation of some particular ministry event, people will give assessment: this was good, this wasn’t good. That is everyone coming at the issue from their own perceptions. Each person has their own...

Coaching clusters

The most common way to do coaching is one-on-one. Yet I’ve found that another strategy that works well is coaching one-on-three– what I call coaching clusters. As a coach, I have each person prepare individually. Then during a 90-minute session, I coach each...

DiSC: What have we learned?

This entry is the last of a blog series on the DiSC profile, which is one of the top tools that I’ve found to be helpful in building teams. (You can do a search on this blog for StrengthsFinder to find another.) DiSC looks at our behavioral style and tendencies...

Working with C’s

This entry is part of a series on the DiSC profile. If you’d like to see the whole series, you can do a search for DiSC on this blog.  Remember the old TV show with the policeman who said in monotone, “Just the facts, ma’am.” That’s how to...