This document discusses the difference between strategic planning and strategic preparing for church leaders. Strategic planning involves developing plans and praying that God will bless those plans. However, plans often change and leaders get stuck. Strategic preparing involves seeking God's plans and asking how to join what God is already doing. It's about cultivating anticipation to see God's plans revealed and being flexible. The document provides questions for church leaders focused on discerning God's plans rather than relying on their own.
Mapping a Year of Ministry for a Healthy ChurchBrandon Cox
Notes from one of our live group coaching calls inside DigitalLeadershipLab.com. We discussed how to define "success" biblically, how to measure actual growth and health, and how to map out a strategy for effective ministry leadership and church growth in the coming year.
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Mapping a Year of Ministry for a Healthy ChurchBrandon Cox
Notes from one of our live group coaching calls inside DigitalLeadershipLab.com. We discussed how to define "success" biblically, how to measure actual growth and health, and how to map out a strategy for effective ministry leadership and church growth in the coming year.
To be part of our next call, sign up at http://DigitalLeadershipLab.com.
How to Get More Mileage Out of Your Data: Use Branded Research to Engage Buye...G3 Communications
From the B2B Content2Conversion Conference, with:
Pablo T. Rivero, Director, Engagement and Awareness Strategy, Global Corporate Payments, American Express Corp.
this powerpoint will give a small explanation about my thesis here you will see an introduction, my methood, expected result, conclusion and at the end you will see the reference
How to Get More Mileage Out of Your Data: Use Branded Research to Engage Buye...G3 Communications
From the B2B Content2Conversion Conference, with:
Pablo T. Rivero, Director, Engagement and Awareness Strategy, Global Corporate Payments, American Express Corp.
this powerpoint will give a small explanation about my thesis here you will see an introduction, my methood, expected result, conclusion and at the end you will see the reference
Did you know that God has a master plan, and you are part of it?
What if we could dive together into God’s story, connecting the dots all the way from Genesis to Revelation? What if these connections revolutionized our outlook on life itself?
What if this changed our outlook on relationships, jobs, marriage and our very purpose in life?
That sounds great, but people are so busy. How can we realistically hope to achieve such major life transformation? We need godly motivation, knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavior.
Imagine your smartphone as the point of contact for: times of crisis; when you need prayer support; guidance. Imagine a network of other sincere, caring, supportive and passionate people gathered into a virtual small group to join you in this life-changing journey.
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Table of Contents
I. Emotional Health Check-Up
II. Genogram - Looking Back in order to go Forward
III. APEST Assessment
IV. Leading out of Marriage or Singleness
V. Establishing a Rule of Life
VI. Principles of Rest – Sabbath Keeping
VII. Making Plans and Decisions God’s Way
VIII. Working with Teams
IX. Understanding Power and Establishing Boundaries
X. Endings and New Beginnings
XI. Final Observations about Emotional Health and Leadership
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Week #1 h- Emotional Health Check-Up
“The emotionally unhealthy leader is someone who operates in a continuous state of emotional and spiritual deficit, lacking emotional maturity” and often substituting their “doing for God” in place of “being with God.” (Scazzero, EHL, 25) These leaders minister from an empty cup, rather than from an overflowing saucer.
1. Complete the assessment, “How Healthy Is Your Leadership?”
Use the following scale:
5 = Always true of me
4 = Frequently true of me
3 = Occasionally true of me
2 = Rarely true of me
1 = Never true of me
__5___ 1. I take sufficient time to experience and process difficult emotions such as anger, fear, and sadness.
_____ 2. I am able to identify how issues from my family of origin impact my relationships and leadership—both negatively and positively.
___5__ 3. (If married): The way I spend my time and energy reflects the value that my marriage—not ministry—is my first priority as a leader.
(If single): The way I spend my time and energy reflects the value that living out a healthy singleness—not ministry—is my first priority as a leader.
__5___ 4. (If married): I experience a direct connection between my oneness with Jesus and oneness with my spouse.
(If single): I experience a direct connection between my oneness with Jesus and closeness with my friends and family.
___4__ 5. No matter how busy I am, I consistently practice the spiritual disciplines of solitude and silence.
__4___ 6. I regularly read Scripture and pray in order to enjoy communion with God and not just in service of ministry tasks.
___1__ 7. I practice Sabbath—a weekly twenty-four-hour period in which I stop my work, rest, and delight in God’s many gifts.
__1___ 8. I view Sabbath as a spiritual discipline that is essential for both my personal life and my leadership.
___5__ 9. I take time to practice prayerful discernment when making ministry plans and decisions.
___4__ 10. I measure the success of planning and decision-making primarily in terms of discerning and doing God’s will (rather than exclusively by measures such as attendance growth, excellence in programming, or expanded impact in the world).
___4__ 11. With those who report to me, I consistently devote a portion of my supe.
2015 Christian CEO Mid-Year Personal AssessmentThe C12 Group
It is hard to believe that 2015 is already half complete! As leaders, stewards and builders of great businesses, it will serve us well to take this brief personal assessment before another week passes. This will give us an opportunity to see our blind spots and to make any necessary course corrections as we work to finish out a terrific 2015. Are you ready? Let's finish strong friends!
What would you do differently if you knew your church was worth $1 million to your neighborhood? A recent study reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer crunches the numbers.
What if church leaders took their new coaching skills back home to train others in their faith communities? What if they took a coach approach to ministry, applying coaching principles to all of their work?
Coaching4Clergy October Newsletter
1. September 2010
What in God's name are we doing?
Strategic planning is a theme that often shows up at this time of
year. In fact, as I write this article, I'm noticing that I've had
conversations about this topic three times already this week.
People all of a sudden realize that it's Fall, "back to school time,"
except they don't have a clue what they're coming back to. So they
ask me to help them map out the next 1-3 years or so, because
then they'll really have a handle on things.
As I've been coaching pastors and church leaders in response to
this request, a new distinction has been coming up between
strategic planning and strategic preparing.
When I ask church leaders what they're struggling with, they say
that they get one or two steps planned but then get stuck. And often
by the time they get to the second step, everything has changed at
their church anyway. It's almost as if they can't plan because they
don't know what's going to happen next.
Exactly.
It seems the common approach among pastors and Christian
leaders is to develop a strategic plan and then pray, "God, please
bless the plans that we've created." Too often, that is the mindset of
strategic planning.
I’d like to suggest a different approach called strategic preparing.
The mindset and prayer of strategic preparing is: "God, what are
your plans and how can we join you?"
In this approach, we are seeking greater clarity about God’s plans
and are asking the question: “How do we join in with what God is
already doing?” This is the mindset of strategic preparing, asking:
"How can we prepare ourselves to respond to what God is already
doing?"
Planning is an outside thing, it's the external. It's buying into that
myth that if we can set things up carefully enough, we can actually
control what's going to happen.
2. Being prepared is internal, an inside thing. It's changing the culture
of an organization to be fluid, flexible and responsive. It's about
cultivating a sense of anticipation to see God's plans revealed,
instead of gripping so tightly onto our own plans. How freeing!
In the spirit of changing your church by changing your
questions, here's another way to illustrate this distinction.
"What in God's name are we doing?"
You might read that as casual slang, almost a curse. But now, look
at it again from the perspective of a sincere wish to tune into God's
plan. It becomes an entirely different question!
"What, in God's name, are we doing?"
I'll leave you with these other powerful questions to ask at your
church, in order to transform your mindset from strategic planning
to strategic preparing:
What in the world is God up to?
What is God inviting us to be a part of this year?
What are the 3-4 things we can do to step further into what
God's up to?
What's the risk we're willing to take, in order to give up our
plans and be prepared for whatever God has planned?
How can we further discern what God is inviting us to be part
of?
What does being strategically prepared look like for us? Our
church? Or, our association or conference?
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