Sticky teams : keeping your leadership team and staff on the same page /

Osborne, Larry W., 1952-

Sticky teams : keeping your leadership team and staff on the same page / [print] Larry Osborne. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Zondervan, (c)2010. - 221, 1. pages ; 21 cm

The unity factor: the one thing that can't be left to chance -- Why boards go bad: structured for conflict -- Guarding the gate: no guts, no unity -- What game are we playing? How growth changes everything -- Six things every leadership team needs to know: axioms to live by -- Clarifying the pastor's role: why leadership matters -- Clarifying board and staff roles: why teamwork matters -- Making room at the top: why young eagles don't stay -- Equipped to lead: lobbying isn't training -- Board alignment: the power of an extra "shepherds' meeting" -- Staff alignment: plumb lines and assumptions -- Congregational alignment: preempting conflict -- Change diplomacy: minimizing conflict and chaos -- Setting salaries: investment or expense -- Talking about money: assumptions, facts, and a savings account -- When things go wrong: telling the truth when the truth is hard -- Final thoughts: sticky teams and the gates of Hell.

Learn the secrets to building and maintaining a healthy, productive, and unified ministry team that sticks together for the long haul. Serving as a church leader can be a tough calling. Whatever your role, odds are you've known your share of the frustration and disillusionment that comes with turf battles, conflicting vision, and marathon meetings. You may have asked yourself, "How did it get this way?" With twenty years of front-line ministry experience, Larry Osborne understands congregations (as baffling as they can sometimes be) and he know how the best-intentioned teams can become disrupted and disunified. With this book, he aims to shore up the foundation of a healthy team--what does a unified and thriving church leadership look like and how can it be achieved? Whatever your situation; from start-up phase, to mid-sized, to megachurch, Osborne has been there. As the pastor of North Coast Church, he's walked his board, staff, and congregation through the process of becoming more genuinely unified, and, because of that, better able to carry out God's design for his church. With warm encouragement and insight, he shares expertise that most pastors and leadership teams learn only from long experience: how to invest the time to create church harmony and how to lead so that unity is maintained long-term. https://www.amazon.com/Sticky-Teams-Keeping-Leadership-Staff/dp/0310324645/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3TGM1Q9RG5UQY&keywords=9780310324645&qid=1662130169&sprefix=9%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1



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Group ministry.
Pastoral theology.
Christian leadership.
Church group work.
Church work.

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