Tag: growth
-
Change: An Unexpected Roadmap
You’ve cast the vision, instilled the values, spent hours of time guiding and training your team. You are ready to soar! Then…… A key player falls sick and enters the hospital. The exciting events of marriages and pregnancies are causes for celebration yet create waves of change in a family or organization. In missions it could be the…
-
Promoting Balanced Lives in your Team
Half of American workers hate their jobs! That is shocking! I believe we can improve the enjoyment of our teams by promoting balanced lives coupled with creating a team environment and being concerned with their growth. Too often workers dislike their jobs because the road to success come through overworking. Workers need to be challenged and pushed, but…
-
Read One More Verse
Often in Scripture, things are not as they seem at first glance. Unfortunately, too many of us stop with the first glance. We practice “Bible Roulette” and grab one verse at a time without considering what the author meant. Context is the tool for this in Bible study. This is the second most important principle…
-
Growing Your Team
I am not talking about growth as we often measure in the terms of how large your team is. This is not about numbers! One of the key elements to build a team is providing opportunities for growth for your members. People want to be apart of something bigger than themselves, but also participate in a…
-
Racism is more than Black or White
We have friends who have a South African woman come once a week to help out with the children. They recently went on furlough and wanted to keep this woman employed during their trip. They arranged for her to help with another couple’s children. Recently we learned this woman refused to come and help. The family…