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Our proven leadership development system will help you to learn faster, apply more and lead better.
We create ready-to-use “Leadership Workshops” that will help you and your staff take your church to the next level, by providing you with practical coaching,actionable takeaways, done-for-you resources, discussion questions and group exercises.
Ministry Library has +100 leadership workshops
Each workshop contains:
10-12 Minute Coaching Video
focusing on practical how-to’s
Printable Notes
created to help you take action right away
Team Discussion Guide
helping you lead your team through collaborative learning and application
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
Everyone wants their teams to succeed, but even the very best of teams still struggle. Usually, it is because these teams fall victim to one of several dysfunction which break down teamwork and cripples effectiveness. In the book The Five Dysfunctions Of A Team by Patrick Lencioni, he unveils the 5 dysfunctions of a team and how you as a leader can overcome them.
Team Discussion Guide
In the video summary, we talked about how each of these 5 dysfunctions are like a link in a chain. If one of the dysfunctions is allowed to happen, it will cause everything else to begin to breakdown and your team will start to decay. The important thing, is to be able to identify which dysfunctions are present and deal with them rapidly. So in this discussion guide, we are going to help you break down each dysfunction and see if any of them are present in your team.
8 Simple Rules For Leading Better By Mac Lake
Sometimes we make leadership more difficult than it needs to be. If you think about it, leadership is easy 90% of the time. It’s the 10% of the time is why you get paid to be the leader. It’s why you’re in the position, it’s the difficult decisions you have to make. But the truth is, leadership really is easy 90% of the time, but not for everybody.
There are some people who just struggle with leadership and they complain about the people and they feel like they have problems 90% of the time. When you have problems with your team 90% of the time, I think that’s when we have to stop and look in the mirror and begin to ask, “Is the problem the people or the way I’m leading?”
So here are 8 simple rules to help you be a better leader.
Team Discussion Guide
This Team Discussion Guide is dedicated to helping you and your team dive deeper into discussion and collaboration on the points that Mac Lake brought out in this video. We’ll also help you figure out where you and your team needs to get started with this information and give you a practical guide for you to begin forming action steps that can be implemented this week.
To begin, have your team watch the video and write down any observations or takeaways they see right away. Then together as a team, meet together and go over the Team Discussion Questions below. After collaborating together and recording insights, have each member of your team answer the questions in the What’s Next section in order to begin creating an action plan.
5 Keys To Creating A Great Team Culture
The environment you create in your organization is either attracting or it’s repelling people all the time. There’s really no in between. As leaders, we have the responsibility for setting the tone for the culture. We have to own it. We have to steward it. We have to set it. We have to maintain it.
Culture is some of the most important work that you’ll do as a leader, but it oftentimes is the thing that we take the most for granted. Plagued by goals to achieve, staff to manage, ministries to run, board members to make happy. The list goes on and on.
So in this video, we asked Jenni Catron to help us busy pastors take a big step back and focus on how to create a great team culture.
Team Discussion Guide
This Team Application Guide will be dedicated to helping you evaluate and create the necessary actions steps needed to address and improve the culture of your teams. The culture of your teams is vitally important to the overall health of your organization and you as the leader, need to be aware of the culture as well as cultivate the culture you want your teams to possess.
To begin this Application Guide, watch Jenni’s video and print off this guide. You may choose to take your leadership staff through this workshop or just use it for the teams you oversee. Below is a section of Team Application Questions that can facilitate collaboration or get you started about thinking about your context of team Afterward, you can begin working through the What’s Next section, answering all the questions and providing yourself with action steps and due dates.
7 Practices of Effective Ministry by Andy Stanley
If you’re looking for a book on how to increase your attendance or create new ministries, this book is not for you. This book is all about rethinking your ministry game plan. It isn’t a “how to” guide with 7 things that can be put in place today, it is 7 practices that will help you to rethink what you’re doing and why.
Team Discussion Guide
This Team Application Guide is devoted to helping you and your team think through each of the 7 Practices in the context of your church. Some of the best ideas and game changing thinking comes from team collaboration so we encourage your team to sit down together and walk through this workshop after watching the video.
Amplified Leadership by Dan Reiland
If you want your ministry to reach its maximum potential, all that God wants for you, it is essential that you develop strong leaders. In Amplified Leadership, “pastor’s coach” Dan Reiland gives you a proven process for developing new leaders that are established spiritually and trained practically.
Team Discussion Guide
In this Team Application Guide we will examine a 5 stage process in which you can start to develop leaders in your church. In each section, we will explain what the stage is, what your role as a pastor will be, and then we’ll lead you through some questions to help you determine who in your church is in this particular stage.
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Why David Robertson Joined Ministry Library
Winning back time to lead my leaders better is incredibly valuable to me.
I know that all leaders should be reading widely and wisely. For me, the spirit is willing but the schedule is weak!
These workshops offer pastors with limited margin a simple way to capture big ideas, major points, and training content in minutes instead of hours or days.
Ministry Library gave me the solution to the eternal challenge to grow myself, develop my inner circle, and equip my key leaders to lead their teams more effectively!
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The 5 Most Effective Ways To Recruit Volunteers
Today, Brandon Cox, Pastor of Grace Hills Church and Editor of Pastors.com, talks to us about recruiting and releasing volunteers in the ministry. Very few pastors or leaders in churches have plenty of volunteers and didn’t need any more people. There’s about a 98% chance that if you’re watching this, you’re hoping for more volunteers, you’re looking for more volunteers, and chances are, you’re probably wondering how in the world do I find them.
In this workshop, Brandon will talk about five ways that work the best when recruiting volunteers. While most churches can’t get enough volunteers, Brandon has come across some, and they have effective used these 5 ways.
Team Discussion Guide
This Application Guide is dedicated to helping you and your team discover, plan, and implement much better, more effective ways to recruit volunteers in your church. We will help you think through having the right motivation, the best ways to recruit, and what to do with those volunteers once you have them.
To get started, print of the notes for this video and go through Brandon’s video. This video could make a great staff meeting that could encourage collaboration on your team as to what’s working and what’s not. Take notes on what stands out to your in the video so you can remember to come back to it later. After the video, print off this Application Guide and begin collaboration by asking the Team Discussion Questions listed below. Then move onto the What’s Next Section and provide answers, actions steps, and due dates to help you start implementing this new information into your context.
Church 3.0 by Neil Cole
Change and growth can be painful, but that is no excuse to shy away from it. Our society has moved from modernism to a postmodern mindset, but yet the church has remained stuck in modernism. There are major changes that must be made so that we do not miss the opportunity to share Christ, but they are painful. Church 3.0 helps to nail down the changes from modernism to postmodernism and what that means for the church.
Team Discussion Guide
This Team Application Guide is intended to help you think through the changes in mindset of our culture and begin to see how you can make upgrades to your church environments that will better reach your surrounding communities.
As you go through the video, make a note of anything that sticks out to you so you can remember to come back later. Go through the Team Discussion Questions below with your team to get some discussion and collaboration going. Then as a team or individuals go through the What’s Next questions below. Provide due dates for any action steps you identify.
7 Stupid Things That Keep Churches from Growing
Sometimes it’s difficult in our current circumstances to always know if the choices we make are good or not. But as church leaders, our mistakes mean more than losing money, time, or resources. It means failing to connect people to Jesus or stunting our church’s growth. So in the next few minutes, we are going to walk through the book Ten Stupid Things That Keep Churches From Growing and we’re gonna share with you the 7 biggest mistakes to avoid and give you some tips on how you can avoid making these mistakes.
Team Discussion Guide
In this workshop we are going to help guide you to identify some action steps that your ministry can take from this video, and then apply these actions steps this week. Because this video covered such a broad change of areas in your church, this workshop would be a great asset to your next staff meeting.
To begin, have your team watch the video, provide them with a copy of this Team Workshop and then go through the discussion questions listed below. Afterwards, each staff member can answer the questions in the What’s Next Section below according to their specific area of ministry. As your team collaborates and writes down action steps, be sure to encourage your team to create realistic timelines and due dates for all of the applicable action steps.
9 Tips For Productive Brainstorming Meetings
Brainstorming meetings can be energetic, engaging, and exciting. But depending on how they are run, they can also be tormenting to you and your team. Sometimes, they feel a lot less like fun and a lot more like work. Sometimes it feels like you put in a lot of effort but get little effect. But this mindset can be incredibly destructive to your creative thinking process and it doesn’t have to be this way.
In this video, Ben Stapley gives 9 tips to help you make the most of your brainstorming meetings. From the planning of the meeting, to the facilitation of the brainstorming session, to keeping the creativity alive long after the meeting is done, these 9 tips will help you foster an environment of creativity that will help to ensure your brainstorming meetings pour down ideas.
Team Discussion Guide
In this Application Guide, we are going to help you prepare for your next brainstorming meeting to ensure that it will be a productive one. Maybe you feel right at home in brainstorming meetings, but your team….eh…not so much. Or maybe you HATE being in brainstorming meetings, but they are kind of a necessary evil. No matter where on the spectrum you find yourself today, our goal here at Ministry Library is to help you improve the quality of your brainstorming meetings.
To begin, check out Ben’s video, and maybe even contemplate going over some of this information with your team. After watching the video, What’s Next section. Make sure to give yourself due dates, reminders, and key deliverables so that your next brainstorming meeting can pour down ideas! Also, don’t forget to download out Brainstorming Meeting Worksheet to help remind you to incorporate these tips and best prepare so that your next brainstorming meeting can pour down ideas!
Strange Leadership by Greg Atkinson
Is your church, ministry, or business lacking innovation? Perhaps you’re experienced in trying new things and moving in new ways, but you haven’t ever tried anything strange. Truly innovative leaders are often considered strange. Don’t settle for everyday leadership; immerse yourself in Strange Leadership!
Team Discussion Guide
In this Application Guide, we will walk you through each of the 5 ways to lead an innovative organization covered in the video and help guide you to practical application steps that you and your team can begin implementing in your church this week.
This workshop will be used interactively in the video, so please print this out and follow along with the video. In the video, we will pause and prompt you to work through some of the questions below. After the video is completed, return to the top of the workshop and continue on answering the remaining questions. Feel free to split them up over the course of a couple of days, weeks, or complete them all in a staff meeting. Whatever you do, make sure you apply what you’ve learned!