10/29/07 Leadership Team Field Exercise 2: Ambiguity of Leadership Language
From “Gaining Traction” (Chalice Press, 2007)
Do some informal research the next time you as a leader can procure about 5 minutes in a gathering of a cross section of the congregation (a class, small group, town hall meeting, fellowship gathering,...
10/22/07 Leadership Team Field Exercise 1: Spiritual Leadership
From “Gaining Traction” (Chalice Press, 2007)
Leadership teams are too busy “doing,” and rarely spend enough time thinking and sharing with one another about who God has called them to be and how they are functioning together. Use this Field...
10/15/07 What's The Point?
What's the Point?By Bill Tenny-Brittian
We were asked recently to revisit some of the basics of what it takes to grow/transform a church. Recently I attended a church that has plateaued in its average worship attendance (AWA) at about 400. Although...
10/08/07 Peer Coaching
By Bill Tenny-Brittian
There's a new "craze" in the world of church leadership development called "Peer Coaching." Although peer coaching isn't really "new," there's been renewed interest in it because of the inability of most church leaders to...
10/01/07 Training Small Groups
By Bill Tenny-Brittian
One of the most disheartening thing I've noticed in most church's small group programs is the lack of life-changing that goes on. The vast majority of the participants who attend small groups leave in about the same state as...