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Building a Healthy Staff Culture :: Andy Stanley, Catalyst One Day-

by Tim Schraeder on 11/17/2011 in Catalyst One Day with No comments
  • The process is often far more important than the product.
  • The local church should shave the best organization in your city.
  • The Monday-Friday life of your church should be as excellent as your weekends.
  • We have huge advantages… shared faith, shared values, honor, integrity, clear mission, etc.
1- Healthy and productive staff cultures are characterized by mutual submission.
  • Mark 10:32-45
  • …not so with you.
  • …not so with me.
  • Jesus introduced a new paradigm for leadership.
  • Jesus argued against the way it was done.
  • Whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant.
  • In being a leader you are becoming a servant of all.
  • You’re not abdicating leadership or abandoning authority, you are becoming a slave or servant of all.
  • Even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve.
  • Jesus is the head of the Church.
Healthy and Productive Staff Cultures  Are Characterized by Healthy Submission
  • The message of mutual submission: I’m here to facilitate your success regardless of where either of us shows up on the organizational church.
  • The assumption of mutual submission: While our responsibilities differ, we are both essential to the success of the enterprise.
  • The question of mutual submission asks: “What can I do to help?”
    • The Gospel is God looking down from Heaven asking, “What can I do to help?”
    • He looked at our pitiful situation and sent His Son for us.
    • Great leaders don’t serve over, they serve under.
    • How can you leverage your power and your influence to make others successful?
    • There is no such thing as God’s anointing on a man or woman of God for ministry.
    • The Anointed One is Jesus.
    • The idea of us being the “anointed” is an Old Testament way of thinking that works against the way Jesus taught.
    • The New Testament way of thinking teaches that every part of the body of Christ is essential.
    • The idea of “the anointed” creeps away into the way we looks at and approach our leadership.
    • We set up our pastors for failure and set our staff up with unhealthy patterns.
    • Jesus gave us a brand-new view of leadership that is all about leveraging our authority for other people’s benefit.
    • We are all essential.
    • Abandon the way of thinking of a pastor as being “the anointed.”
    • That doesn’t dishonor your pastors or leaders, it protects them.

The ultimate dysfunction of a team is the tendency of members to care about something other than the collective goals of the group… Team status and individual status are prime candidates. – The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

Best Practices

Do for one what you wish you could for everyone.

  • “If I do it for you, I’ll have to do it for everyone…”
  • If you want to create a culture of mutual submission, look for opportunities to be fair.
  • Fairness is not a biblical value.
  • Fairness ended at the Garden.
  • Don’t be fair, be engaged.
  • If you use fairness as an excuse to not be engaged, you’re living unbiblically.
Systemize top-down service.
Create and maintain a sustainable pace.
  • Without margin, there is no room to serve.
  • Without margin we seek first our kingdoms.
Celebrate and reward mutual submission when you see it.
  • What’s rewarded is repeated.
Confront your ego.
  • What’s most important, building a great organization or building a great name for yourself?
Drop the term loyalty from your vocabulary.
  • Loyalty isn’t a fruit of the spirit.
  • If you have to ask people to be loyal you have an organizational problem.
  • If you ask for it or demand it, you are the one with a loyalty issue.
  • If you can’t serve people so well to the point they wouldn’t be loyal to you, you’ve got a leadership problem.
  • You don’t need loyalty if you’re leading well.
  • If you need it, you need counseling.

Values and Culture :: Craig Groeschel, Catalyst One Day

by Tim Schraeder on 11/17/2011 in Catalyst One Day with No comments

Craig Groeschel is the founding and senior pastor of LifeChurch.tv.

Craig, his wife Amy, and their six children live in the Edmond, Oklahoma area where LifeChurch.tv began in 1996.

Craig’s creative leadership is changing the way church is done worldwide. Under his leadership, LifeChurch.tv has become one of the country’s first multi-campus churches, with over 70 weekend services at 15 locations. LifeChurch.tv also partners with 200 Network churches that view its messages every weekend.

Craig is the author of several books, including The Christian Atheist: Believing in God but Living As If He Doesn’t Exist, It: How Churches and Leaders Can Get It and Keep It, Chazown: A Different Way to See Your Life, Confessions of a Pastor, Going All the Way and his most recent, Weird: Because Normal Isn’t Working.

For more information about Craig Groeschel and LifeChurch.tv, visit www.lifechurch.tv.

  • Every organization has an unlimited number of intangibles that create its culture.
  • It’s impossible to recreate an environment.
  • Culture is way more than buildings, environments, signage or cleanliness.

Values and Culture

  • Healthy cultures never happen by accident: they are created.
  • The number one force that shapes your cultures is your values.
  • What you value determines what you do. 
    • What you believe determines how you behave.
    • Matthew 9:10-12
    • If we value survival we will focus on keeping people happy and be overly-focused on making money.
    • If we value tradition, we will focus more on the past than on the opportunities for ministry that are right in front of us.
    • If we value evangelism, we will focus more on those we have not reached than those we have.
    • A strong, effective church is made up of people unified around a strong set of values.
    • We need healthy, God-honoring culture in our churches.
    • If you want a different kind of culture, you’ve got to change your values.

How Do We Allow our Values to Shape our Culture?

1 – Determine honestly what your actions say you value.

  • Every ministry values something.
  • Not all values are intentional or clearly articulated.
  • Your actions determine what you value.
  • There’s often a big difference between what you claim to value and how you behave.
  • Your actions speak louder.
2 – Identify the values God has put within YOU.
  • Don’t copy other people’s values.
  • We can’t be good at being somebody else
  • What do you passionately love in ministry?
  • What breaks your heart or makes you righteously angry?
  • What makes you say, “NOT ON MY WATCH!”
  • Be honest about what you value.
3 – Narrow your values to ten or fewer.
  • If everything is important, nothing will be important.
  • If you value everything, you’ll value nothing.
4. Once you’ve clearly definite your values, describe them in short, life-giving statements.
  • If can’t be tweeted they are too long.
  • They should be statements that strike emotion and motivate people to action.
  • Some of LifeChurch.tv’s values…
  • We’ll do anything short of sin to reach more people for Christ.
  • If we want to reach people no one is reaching we’ve got to do things other people aren’t doing.
  • We aren’t a mega-church, we are a micro church with a mega-vision.
  • If your values don’t move you, they won’t move other people.
  • Don’t put your values on a wall, put them on your heart and let them bleed out.
5 – Shape your culture and build your people around your values.
  • Lead toward your values as if your future depends on it… because it does.
  • Organizations don’t change, people change.
  • When people change, the organization will follow.
  • If you want  a different outcome, you’ve got to change the people.
  • Hire and recruit for your values.
  • Remove people from your organization with distinctly different values.
  • If you don’t like where your ministry is going, change directions.
  • If you want you’ve always had you should do what you’ve always done.
  • If you want what you’ve never had, you should change.
  • If something’s not right in your ministry, quit your whining and fix it.
  • You have what it takes.
  • Use your gift of leadership.
  • God put you where you are for a reason.
  • God cares more about your church than you do.
  • Go and do what only you can do.
  • God will empower you to get it done.

Five Inescapable Truths About Organizational Culture :: Andy Stanley, Catalyst One Day

by Tim Schraeder on 11/17/2011 in Andy Stanley, Catalyst One Day with No comments
Andy Stanley is a pastor, communicator, and the founder of North Point Ministries (NPM).

Since its inception in 1995, North Point Ministries has grown from one campus to five in the Atlanta area and has helped plant over thirty strategic partner churches globally.

Each Sunday, more than 25,000 adults attend worship services at one of NPM’s five campuses: North Point Community Church, Browns Bridge Community Church, Buckhead Church, Watermarke Church, and Gwinnett Church.

Andy’s books included the recently re-released Enemies of the Heart, as well as The Grace of God, Communicating for a Change, Making Vision Stick, Next Generation Leader, The Principle of the Path, and How Good is Good Enough? Andy lives in Alpharetta, Georgia, with his wife, Sandra, and their three children.

For more information about Andy Stanley and North Point Ministries, visit www.northpointministries.org.

  • Whether we mean to or not,  we have intentionally or accidentally created some kind of organizational culture.
  • Every organization has a culture.
  • Culture is a set of unwritten rules that determines how people in an organization act, react, communicate, problem-solve and treat each other.
  • Culture indicates the attitudes, beliefs, values, standards, expectations, prejudices, approaches,and phobias that characterize its people when they are together.
  • Culture is the personality of an organization.
Five Inescapable Truths About Organizational Culture
1 – Leaders shape organizational culture whether they intend to or not.
  • Your personality is reflected in your organization.
  • Who your is reflected in the organization that you create.
2 – Time in erodes awareness of.
  • The longer you there the less aware you are of the culture. It becomes invisible to you.
  • New people recognize it immediately.
  • When we see things in our organization that we don’t like, we tend to look out the window, instead of the mirror.
  • You have got to create tools to help you see your or organization and your culture with fresh eyes.
  • What can you do to make sure that your culture isn’t invisible to you?
  • At North Point, they survey new staff members at their 3 month and 1 year marks of being on staff to evaluate the culture of their organization.
  • We need tools and ways to have fresh eyes.

 

3 – Healthy cultures attract and keep healthy people.

  • Unhealthy people flourish in an unhealthy environment; healthy people will flourish in a healthy environment.
  • Don’t hire a ministry, have a ministry.
  • Unhealthy people will be unhappy in a healthy environment.

 

4 – The culture of an organization impacts the long-term productivity of an organization.

  • A healthy culture is more productive.
  • If productivity is tired to a healthy environment, it is essential for us to create a healthy culture.
  • If we aren’t productive, God’s work won’t advance.
5 – Unhealthy cultures are always slow to adapt to change.

 

You have a culture in your church.

  • We owe it to ourselves, our people,  and to God to create the strongest, healthiest culture.
  • We’ll get done, we’ll be more productive and the Kingdom of God will advance.

Creating Personal Spiritual Momentum :: Craig Groeschel

by Tim Schraeder on 03/25/2010 in Catalyst One Day, Notes with 2 Comments
  • The most important contributing factor to ministries that have “IT” is that it’s lead by leaders that have “IT.”
  • It requires leaders who are transparent before God.

How many of you occasionally or often feel overwhelmed, stress, feel like ministry can be a burden, etc?

How many of you would say there was a time in your past that you were closer to God than you are today?

  • A time when you were more passionate about God’s Word.
  • A time when you were more prayerful.
  • You were more excited about sharing your faith.
  • More excited about the Church – not the organization, the numbers, etc.
  • You felt like God was speaking to you more clearly, better led by the Spirit.

Every leadership principle we talk about doesn’t matter unless we get our life with God in order.

  • Genesis 31:43-44
  • “What can I do today?”
  • What is God calling you to do?

I will do today what I can do, to enable me to do tomorrow what I can’t do today.

  • Too many young leaders are trying to do too much too soon.
  • We have to be faithful with what we’ve got right now.

Four Things To Do Today

1 – Do something to defeat your dark side.

  • All of us have a dark side… something that’s not pleasing to God, something that’s a hindrance to us moving forward.
  • Ask God to search you and show you what your dark side is.
  • One of the the healthiest things you can do for your spiritual life is identifying what your dark side is.
  • In ministry we’re far too often worried about what people think about us instead of what God thinks.
  • You will never become all God created you to be when you worry about what other people think about you.
  • Buried within your dark side may be one of the greatest strengths of your ministry… if you will acknowledge your dark side and do something about it.

2 – Create artificial ministry deadlines.

  • You will never be done with your work, EVER.
  • You can always do more.
  • The problem with ministry today is that we don’t care but that we care so much that we are hurting ourselves.
  • We sacrifice our own families and relationship with God to do something that makes little impact.
  • Craig commits to leaving the office by 3:45 each day. Not because he’s done, but it makes him sharper all day long. Makes him delegate what he’d normally do. Forces him to make fast decisions. Causes him to ignore what’s not important. Creates faster decisions.
  • When you are walking by the Spirit, you can make quick, coin toss decisions.
  • We usually end up doing tomorrow what we could have decided today.
  • Artificial deadlines force you to make faster decisions.
  • Meetings are the biggest hindrance to productivity.
  • They cut their meetings in half.
  • Instead of spending so much time working IN the church, they were able to work ON the church.
  • Ministry will kill your relationship with God if you let it.
  • “the way I was doing the work of God was killing the work of God in me.” – Hybels

3 – Delegate what someone else can do.

  • Every time you commit to doing something new, decide what you’re going to give away.
  • We accumulate work.
  • We ask, “Can I?” instead of, “should I?”
  • We are the worst delegators.
  • Don’t delegate responsibilities. Delegate authority.
  • Delegating responsibilities creates followers.
  • Delegating authority creates leaders.
  • We oftentimes delegate tasks… we’re telling people to not be creative.
  • The stupidest thing you can do is micromanage.
  • Give people the chance to lead.
  • A great leader is not marked by what they know but how much the right people know.
  • You’d be wise to write down the three things only you can do and give everything else on your list away.
  • Your capacity to lead is marked by how much you’re willing to give away.
  • GIVE IT AWAY. CREATE. DELEGATE.
  • “If someone can do it 80% as good as you can, give it to them…” – Maxwell

4 – Do something only you can do.

  • Husbands, you are the only one who should be a husband to your wife.
  • Wives, you are the only person who should be a a wife to your husband.
  • Design your ministry around your values.
  • Do not sacrifice your family on the altar of ministry.
  • Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. – Matthew 11:28
  • REST… not rush, anxiety, tension, pressure, worry, fear… REST for your souls.
  • Some of us don’t even know what REST is.
  • We oftentimes do ministry like God doesn’t even exist.
  • We become full-time pastors and part-time followers of Christ.
  • It’s not that we don’t believe, it’s that we’re not believing today.
  • Don’t think about a single leadership principle until you’ve looked into the mirror at your spiritual life.

Are you OK with the fact that you are overwhelmed and stressed when Jesus said His yolk is easy and His burden is light?

Are you OK with the fact that the ‘other person’ in your life is the Church?

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