When I ask pastors what their greatest leadership challenges are, one thing makes almost everyone’s list. “I need more volunteers,” they say. When I ask what they’re doing to recruit volunteers, they talk about Sunday morning announcements and recruitment fairs. They talk about promotional slides before service and social media posts. They invest time, energy,…
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Read my latest thoughts on coaching, being a staff pastor, and leading ministries effectively.
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You Know What You’d Be Amazing At?
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What Have You Been Doing This Week?
I am not good at small talk. I’m actually so bad at small talk that one of the first things I ever did as a pastor was to google “How to make small talk.” I eventually found a website that gave me a list of good questions that would work as conversation starters. They were…
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“What Do You Need?”
This one phrase may capture the essence of being an associate leader more than any other. Here’s why: Being an associate leader of any kind means having to spend some of your time following and some of your time leading. For the most part, that means having to develop two different but overlapping sets of…