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Developing Essential Leaders: Part Two

What separates good youth ministries from great youth ministries?

What’s Essential for Leading a Volunteer Team?

We could probably all come up with a good set of answers to that question (in fact, I’d love to see your lists!).

Developing Essential Leaders: Part One Plus an Interview with Mark DeVries

What’s essential to effective youth ministry? That’s a great question.

Essentials for Team Leadership

We all struggle with leading our ministry teams at times, especially when it comes to knowing what’s most important. Leadership coach Mark Maines explores two team dynamics models and offers practical suggestions for your ministry.

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…

Team Accountability

I love re-reading books. I often feel like I learn and apply more the second time around (kind of like the way “Princess Bride” seems to get better every time I watch it).

I’m re-reading The Five Temptations of a

Recruiting Leaders New Ideas from Old Pros

We recently asked four youth ministry veterans (with over 70 years of combined experience) to give us glimpses into the good, the bad and the ugly (sometimes the very ugly) of recruiting leaders.