The best Coaches not only put their teams in the best position to win, but they help their players become better people, they improve their game, and they help them grow. It’s true not only in sports, but off the field as well. The real irony is the higher you go in leadership the more coaching comes into play. Below are 4 phases of the game that your players need you to coach them through if they’re going to grow.
Only one in ten new products succeed. That’s only a 10% success rate! What if only 10% of the hires you made worked out? What if your financial reports were only accurate 10% of the time? What if your local pizza joint only got your pizza right 10% of the time? You’d find a different place to buy a pizza wouldn’t you? Nine out of ten new products fail because the ideation process that the majority of companies and organizations use is broken.
In their book, “Lightning in a Bottle: The Proven System to Create New Ideas and Products that Work,” authors David Minter and Michael Reid detail why current ideation tools fail and provide a proven 7 step system that you can follow to better ideas. Below are the top 10 reasons they’ve identified why most ideas fail:
After more than 15 years of full time ministry, 10 of which have been spent in some of the nation’s leading mega-churches, I made the decision to spend the last 6 months participating in a professional coaching group.
Here are 5 reasons why I did…and why you should too…
Ignite 2012 is only 4 weeks away. Church planters, prospective planters and planting teams will have opportunities to learn best practices from nationally recognized church planting leaders.
I’ll be involved in an Executive Pastor’s Round Table Conversation with Sam Crabtree who serves as the Executive Pastor at Bethlehem Baptist Church and Randy Deal who serves as the Executive Pastor at Rock Point Church I’ll also be teaching a break out called, “Recruiting, Hiring, and Leading a Team that Makes Vision Real.” Stop by and see me!
$119 per person or $99 per person for groups of 3 or more
March 13-15 at Cornerstone Church in Phoenix, AZ
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Don’t miss these incredible leaders and speakers!
Jud WilhiteAuthor, speaker and senior pastor of Central Christian Church in Las Vegas.
Darrin PatrickFounded The Journey in 2002 in the urban core of St. Louis, Missouri. The Journey has four campuses and has released seven church plants. Darrin is Vice President of the Acts 29 Church Planting Network and serves as a leader in Exponential.
Matt HammettLead pastor of Flood Church in San Diego, California.
Bob MerrittLead pastor of Eagle Brook Church. A large multi-site church located in Minnesota.
Organizations spend all kinds of resources to attract and keep young talented leaders at the table. But surprisingly the best way to do this may be free. Give them what they want, a voice into real leadership decisions.
One of the best ways to accomplish this is the art of collaboration. And while collaboration may not be your natural leadership style, learning to ask the right kind of questions can build a collaborative environment where ideas thrive and young leaders grow.
If you don’t know where to begin, then for the next month start asking these two simple questions. The results may amaze you.
I help churches make vision real. I am a pastor, speaker, strategist, and ministry consultant at The Unstuck Group.
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