Impact
The start of the fall is always an exciting time for Fuller students, especially the students in our Urban Youth Ministry Certificate program …
Archive October 14, 2010
This is Your Brain on Multitasking
So I’ve been a multitasker for as long as I can remember. But then I saw a recent article by Stanford University News that challenges the effectiveness of multitasking.
Chat with Kara, Study at Fuller
Next Tuesday August 18th Kara will be hosting an online conversation for prospective Fuller students. Is that you?
Unprecedented Training
When we launched our Urban Youth Ministry Certificate training program four years ago, it represented an unprecedented training opportunity — graduate education specifically for urban youth workers, packaged in a 6-course certificate completed mostly through distance education over the course of two years.
The Money Question
In an interview process, if the organization ever asks, “What are your salary requirements?” (which many do), your best response is to ask, “What is the pre-determined salary range for the position?”
If you must answer, your best response might …
One Applicant Per Position Drafting Performance Agreements (aka Job Descriptions)
Hiring someone new in your ministry? Need to overhaul your own job description with your church board?
Peter Drucker used to say that your job description (we’ll call it a Performance Agreement from here on out) should be written in …
Justice in Your Paycheck?
We’ve all been told that there are more than 2,000 Bible verses that deal with money or that Jesus talked about money more than any other topic in his ministry. However, for all the “public” discussion about money, the Church …
Pracademic
I was with some academicians and practitioners from around the U.S. this week and we were talking about how many of us are actually hybrids of the two roles – we are both researchers and youth workers.
A new term …
The Conflict Correlation
The Gallup Management Journal recently published an article entitled, “What Strong Teams Have In Common - The Five sure signs of an excellent team.”
Here is the summary:
1. Conflict doesn’t destroy strong teams because strong teams focus …
Reinventing the Interview Process
Part of the reason why churches experience so many turnovers is because we do not interview well. We often “do what we know to do” without thinking about “how do we get what we need.”
Here is my best thinking …