Category: Empower Your People
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You Know What You’d Be Amazing At?
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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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…
“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…
“What you’re doing right now is wildly important because…”
Every leader wants to help their best volunteers thrive while serving long-term. One way to help volunteers stay engaged is to continually inspire them by connecting the way that they serve to the mission and vision of the church. Someone once said that mission leaks. What they meant is that we can get so bogged…
Text me 3 times that work for you, and I’ll pick one.
Just because people think something is urgent doesn’t mean it is. As a pastor you want to be available to those who need you, but every pastor has had meetings that were honestly a waste of time. This one sentence can save you from wasting your time in meetings that can’t have genuine impact. Here’s…
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