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Jan 03, 2014
Is your staff more family or more team?
I am working with a church that is in a common spot. Their staff is more like a family than a team and they need to make the transition from family to team.
Staff as family has an upside and downside. The upside of course is that there are loving and caring relationships - which should characterize any healthy staff. But there is a downside when staff see themselves as family. There is often a...
Oct 04, 2013
Ministry anchors that hold you back
Do you ever feel like there is an anchor that keeps your board or staff team from moving forward like it should? Like many of you are trying to row as hard as you can but it's like you have an anchor dragging behind you that makes the going slow and frustrating? You wish that you could cut through the water at a nice clip but each pull on the oars is hard!
Usually when this happens it is because of...
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 06, 2013
Why I love working with my team
I am in an enviable position with a senior team that is amazing - 13 leaders. I love working with them, enjoy their company, and we are on a common mission to see 100 million people impacted with the gospel and to multiply transformational churches globally. Here is why I love working with them.
1. The team is deeply committed to our mission. The missional glue is strong and when a team lives and...
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1. The team is deeply committed to our mission. The missional glue is strong and when a team lives and...
Jun 06, 2013
Why I love working with my team
I am in an enviable position with a senior team that is amazing - 13 leaders. I love working with them, enjoy their company, and we are on a common mission to see 100 million people impacted with the gospel and to multiply transformational churches globally. Here is why I love working with them.
1. The team is deeply committed to our mission. The missional glue is strong and when a team lives and...
Read more
1. The team is deeply committed to our mission. The missional glue is strong and when a team lives and...
Apr 06, 2013
Learning to understand those we work with
There are few skills more important than that of learning how to understand those who we work with. It was Barnabas who watched and understood Paul after his conversion when others were deeply fearful of him. It was also Barnabas who understood John Mark when Paul wrote him off as a a failure: He got it right when Paul got it wrong.
Paul grew in this area and was a good read of Timothy and Titus,...
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TJ Addington
Addington Consulting
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Murfreesboro, TN 37129
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