Helping Churches Make Vision Real

recruiting and hiring teams that make vision real

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Here’s what I know about you. You’re a leader…or you wouldn’t be reading this. And if you are a leader then chances are you’re chasing after something that’s bigger than you can do alone. Which means at some point you’re going to have to recruit and hire a team. This series of posts was designed for you. To help you think through the right steps and principles to guide you along the road to building a great team that makes the vision God has given you become real.

So I hope you enjoyed this recent series of blog posts “Recruiting and Hiring Teams that Make Vision Real.” Here’s a summary of the series:

Part 1: Why Hires go Wrong

Part 2: What a Hire gone Wrong will Cost You

Part 3: 4 Steps to Making the Right Hire

Part 4: 6 Principles of Building a Staffing Strategy

If you need help building a staffing strategy at your church I’d love to talk with you about it!

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building a family roadmap

Sunday, April 22, 2012

This past weekend I had the opportunity to speak at Sun Valley Community Church While I don’t typically post talks that I give, this one generated some serious conversations afterwards so I figured I’d share it with you. So here’s to hoping that God uses this talk and the resource below to place your family on the right trajectory!

Want to take this talk and put it into action? Here’s a great tool that I highly recommend to help you build your own plan for where God wants to take your family. Get your copy here!

Many parents want to lead their children on a spiritual journey, but they just don’t know how. “The Family Road Map” answers the question, “But how?” This workbook is designed to be a step-by-step guide for parents in planning the purpose and direction of their family. “The Family Road Map” will guide parents through creating a family purpose statement, establishing family values, identifying key mile-markers for their children, and thoroughly evaluating the yearly personal growth of each of their children. “The Family Road Map” will serve as a guide for parents in raising their children to become all that God wants them to be.

Posted in Creative Arts, Family, Spiritual Formation

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conducting a spiritual audit

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Yesterday we gave our staff a half-day off…well sort of. All Sun Valley Staff, from top to bottom, were given a spiritual audit and simple instructions. Spend a leisurely restful morning doing something that fills you up. Sleep in, go for a hike, go on a motorcycle ride, hit a favorite coffee shop…whatever refreshes you. Then make time (about 45 minutes) to find a quiet place and answer 12 pre-designed questions on a spiritual audit. Following the spiritual audit, staff found a prayer guide that took an additional 45 minutes or so to go through. Finally staff made plans to meet a co-worker for lunch to discuss and debrief what God showed them through this experience. It was a simple way to invest in the team and reinforce that we want something for them, and not just from them. It was also a simple way to build a culture of authenticity among the team. Interested in the 12 questions from the audit? Check them out below…

Posted in Spiritual Formation

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recruiting and hiring teams that make vision real part-4 6 principles of building a staffing strategy

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Great teams don’t happen on accident. Over the past 15+ years of working with churches the best hires I’ve seen have always come through a well thought out staffing strategy. Based on that experience the following are 6 principles that I help churches think through when it comes to building a staffing strategy.

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chic-fil-a leadercast

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

I’m excited to announce that Sun Valley Community Church is hosting the Chic-fil-A Leadercast for the second straight year! It’s going to be an incredible one day leadership event broadcast LIVE from Atlanta, Georgia to hundreds of locations around the world.

Chic-fil-A has put together a stellar lineup of speakers including Soledad O’Brien, Anchor and Special Corespondent for CNN | Tim Tebow, NFL Quarterback, Heisman Trophy winner, & best selling author (I gotta give a shout out to the Florida Gators!) | Patrick Lencioni, Best-selling author & president of The Table Group | Marcus Buckingham, Strength strategist, best-selling author and researcher | John Maxwell, Leadership expert & best-selling author of The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership | Angela Ahrendts, Chief Executive Officer, Burberry | Roland Fryer, Professor of economics at Harvard & CEO of the Education Innovation Laboratory | Urban Meyer, Head football coach for Ohio State University Buckeyes (I can’t believe I’ve got a Florida Gator mini-helmet in my office signed by Urban…what do I do with it now that he’s a Buckeye?) | Andy Stanley, Best-selling leadership author & communicator | Sheena Iyengar, Author of The Art of Choosing & world-renowned expert on choice

Date: Friday, May 4, 2012

Location: Sun Valley Community Church, Gilbert, AZ

For additional information and to purchase tickets for you and your team click here! I look forward to seeing you there!

Posted in Leadership