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Oct 28, 2013
An interesting and challenging job of staff
One of the jobs of staff is to keep their leader out of trouble: From making poor decisions, driving down the wrong road or ignoring warning signs that they need to be aware of. It is not always an easy job depending on one's leader but it is important because bad decisions by our leader carry consequences for the organization, its staff and its mission.
Some leaders (the healthy ones) both welcome...
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Some leaders (the healthy ones) both welcome...
Jun 28, 2013
Healthy teams
Consider this definition of a healthy team: A high impact ministry team is a group of missionally aligned and healthy individuals working strategically together under good leadership toward common objectives, with accountability for results. All of these same criteria apply to healthy church boards as well.
A team is not simply a random group of people thrown together because there are slots to...
Jun 28, 2013
Healthy teams
Consider this definition of a healthy team: A high impact ministry team is a group of missionally aligned and healthy individuals working strategically together under good leadership toward common objectives, with accountability for results. All of these same criteria apply to healthy church boards as well.
A team is not simply a random group of people thrown together because there are slots to...
Jun 16, 2013
The glue that holds good teams together
It is a fun game: how many cards can we stack on top of another until the house of cards comes down.In real life, it is more serious - for leaders and team leaders. The measure of our leadership is not what happens when we are leading but what happens when we leave. Does what we built hang together and continue to flourish or does it come apart like a house of cards?
Some leaders build their team...
Jun 16, 2013
The glue that holds good teams together
It is a fun game: how many cards can we stack on top of another until the house of cards comes down.In real life, it is more serious - for leaders and team leaders. The measure of our leadership is not what happens when we are leading but what happens when we leave. Does what we built hang together and continue to flourish or does it come apart like a house of cards?
Some leaders build their team...
Jun 11, 2013
Loyalty: To the leader or to the mission of the organization?
Recently I led a retreat for a senior group of executives who desire to go to the next level. Each of them is fiercely loyal to their founder/leader. Yet, among themselves there is a fair amount of dissonance with sometimes poor cooperation, siloed departments and lack of cooperation. Why is that when there is such strong loyalty to the leader?
The answer is relatively simply. If my primary loyalty...
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The answer is relatively simply. If my primary loyalty...
Jun 11, 2013
Loyalty: To the leader or to the mission of the organization?
Recently I led a retreat for a senior group of executives who desire to go to the next level. Each of them is fiercely loyal to their founder/leader. Yet, among themselves there is a fair amount of dissonance with sometimes poor cooperation, siloed departments and lack of cooperation. Why is that when there is such strong loyalty to the leader?
The answer is relatively simply. If my primary loyalty...
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The answer is relatively simply. If my primary loyalty...
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TJ Addington
Addington Consulting
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