Tag Archive for management
8 Ways to Deal with Discouragement In...
“Anyone who doesn’t admit to occasional seasons of discouragement owns a timeshare on Fantasy Island”
How To Set Your Schedule
5 Practical Steps to Avoid Doing Ministry Minute to Minute
6 Practices Growing Leaders Embrace ...
Bluntly: there is no growth without risk
5 Choices To Handle Criticism Better
Criticism can wreck us or make us stronger. Here are some helpful ways I’ve learned to handle it
7 Ways To Recover As A Leader After You...
Some mistakes go unnoticed. So you take notes and hope not to repeat
Helping Students To Cross The Bridge...
Bridging the gap between middle/high school ministry is a year-long process that I believe starts in December
20 Interview Questions For Youth Workers
Questions For a Church to Ask a Youth Worker..Questions For a Youth Worker to Ask a Church
20 Interview Questions For Youth Workers
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The Benefits & Challenges of...
I sat down with a college student this week. He had asked if he could interview me. Here’s how it went…
How To Speak To Youth And Keep Them...
10 Simple Steps to Deliver a Powerful 5 Minute Devotional
Five Reasons Why Youth Leaders Need To...
Here’s why you need to become a substitute teacher in your community and how it will be effective to your ministry
The Best Youth Ministry Strategy I’ve...
To lead effective, balanced, healthy youth ministry, you need to pay attention to these eight “P”s
Five Mistakes You Make When You Delegate
..unless delegating becomes less about lightening your load and more about developing your leaders, you’ll keep making these five common mistakes
3 Reasons To Plan Your Summer Now
View your events more strategically…
17 Steps That’ll Make Families Want To...
You’ll make your ministry sticky for kids and their families — so they’ll keep coming back!
The Power Of Leading By Influence
What I’m learning as Executive Pastor of Willow Creek
A Message To Youth Ministers Who Are...
One secret they’ve learned is that Gods true call on their life isn’t performance, but faithfulness
How To Get A Room Full Of Teens To...
Here are 3 secrets to getting a room full of teens to listen to you, for instance when you’re doing announcements, or…
Staying Fresh In A Busy Season
“You have made us for yourself, and our hearts are restless, until they can find rest in you.”
Do Parents Respect You As A Youth Pastor...
3 Ways To Build Credibility With Parents In Your Youth Ministry
Starting A Youth Ministry From Scratch
Starting a youth ministry doesn’t mean starting a youth group. Ministry can happen in a lot of different ways. It doesn’t have…
Helping Youth Workers With Admin
I have effectively created my own digital personal assistant, a collection of apps that makes all my habitual admin work
Parent Meeting Agenda
Here is the outline for our last parent meeting – I hope it will encourage you as you meet with parents this…
5 Tips For Planning Meaningful Events...
It is possible to plan events that are both a lot of fun, and packed with life-changing meaning. Here’s how
5 Ways To Build A Better Retreat And...
Nothing changes teens’ lives like retreats. A group survey of 1000 teens proved that pretty conclusively
How I Changed My Mind
Marko: I’m still a merciless jerk on a regular basis…But I can see change.
Student Leadership Basics: Crafting...
They wonder, Why would you entrust your teens with creating your vision?
To which I say, Why wouldn’t you?
7 Steps To Automatic Growth In Your...
There are certain principles that, if applied over time, will cause growth in your ministry
Top 15 Ways That Churches Can Use the...
It works with Twitter and allows you to set up live video streaming from your smartphone just by pressing a button
Team Up!: The Family Ministry Playbook...
by Phil Bell…Parents and families are busier than ever—and so are you—but partnering with them is as important as ever.
Creating A Weekly Schedule That Works...
With the start of a new youthmin season, now is the perfect time to set priorities, prevent stress and burnout
Flashback: 2 Questions You Need 2...
These 2 questions may not seem spiritual. In fact, they may not even seem relevant to church. But they are more deeply…
Flashback: Creating A Youth Ministry...
With a clear and compelling strategy…
10 Steps To Help Kids & Teens...
Stop blaming other churches for your failure to make an impact and take responsibility
How To Jump Back Into Youth Ministry...
Coming back from vacation does not have to be overwhelming. Develop a plan so you can use your new found energy…
10 Tips To Get Parents To Show Up To...
How can I partner with parents so the training I offer meets their needs?
Flashback: 7 Ways To Deal With CAVE...
They are critics. They are naysayers. The negatively outspoken people
Advice For Planning Your Next Youth...
I have learned a few things I wish someone would have told me. I’m passing these thoughts along.
Maturity: Passing On Ownership To...
We’ve not genuinely passed on the leadership mantle until we give them ownership…
Why Parents Don’t Read Your Emails
The single most common reason parents don’t read our emails is because they never actually…
Include Parents In The Plan
When you invite parents into the process it produces something very valuable: Ownership!
Going Orange: The First Steps
Trying to bring your church toward Orange thinking? A few steps you can take to manage the transition in its early stages
What It Takes To Lead The Next...
Developing a discipleship strategy from cradle to graduation—a NextGen pastor
Summer Is Winding Down . . . Are You...
Before the start of school comes, here’s a loose list of things to help you get in the swing of kicking off…
7 Tips For Dealing With Airplane Parents
Those parents who circle their teens at a respectable distance, giving them an appropriate amount of autonomy
3 Simple Steps to Planning A Great Year
Right now is the time for you to plan. I know, the “plan” word sounds so boring. There are 100…
Change Is Good. But Informed Change Is...
True, some people don’t naturally like change. But when you communicate well and often, and allow them time to get used to…
Toxic People?
8 Ways Emotionally Intelligent People Deal With Toxic People
Starting Out: “Communicating With...
Communicating with parents is essential for a successful youth ministry—it’s also one of the hardest things we do
4 Phases Everyone Goes Through After An...
While life eventually goes back to normal, you don’t have to
The 4 Types Of Parents In Your Youth...
When we consider the role parents play in discipling their teenagers, I think there may be four categories, or types, parents fall…
Flashback: 3 Clues Into Starting Out In...
My Secret Sauce For Youth Ministry
“Planning Our Youth Ministry...
Paint in broad strokes what your youth ministry year will look like at this point. Lots of prayer – ask God for…
New Youth Ministry Word: Commitment!
Thomas Edison was committed to his imagination. He pictured a new reality and worked tirelessly thinking through possibilities
What A Winning Youth Ministry Team Looks...
If you want people to join your ministry team you need to make sure it’s winning
A Tip For Keeping Your Performance In...
The response of the….will always be the best litmus test as to how I’m doing
How To Handle Hot Topic Conversations In...
What you will talk about will change, but maybe there are some principles that you can apply to any hot topic
Youth Ministry Management: 10 Key...
Summertime is a great opportunity to work on your management skills
Youth Ministry Management: 10 Key...
Summertime is a great opportunity to work on your management skills
How To Fire A Volunteer
When it isn’t about me, when it is about what them, how do I ask a volunteer leader to step away?
How To Recruit Volunteers And Keep Them
Our volunteers are a gift and blessing. When they are treated that way, they will want to stick around, and be…
Keeping Volunteers Engaged In Your Youth...
I think they leave because we haven’t shown them a clear vision
Finding Magnet Volunteers
A couple that sets the tone and culture of your youth staff. A couple that leads from within
5 Goals For Student Ministry
These 5 Goals help me ensure that…we have a distinct and well thought out focused on following Christ plan
#YouthMin: Are You Doing What Needs to...
You spend all of this time with students and what are you doing?
Recruiting Your Volunteer Dream Team
The book is potent with tools and tips for recruiting, retaining and training today’s volunteers
6 Challenges To Starting A Jr. High...
Before you announce that you are going to separate your groups in the fall, you will need to have a response…
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