I’ve been working for at least 15 years as a graphic designer, brand developer, and website designer for churches, ministries, and businesses. I’ve designed for churches both as an on-staff designer and as a freelancer. Churches sometimes struggle to stay relevant with graphic communication because of the constant struggle against a clock of never-ending deadlines with understaffed and underpaid design teams. The end result is often rushed mediocre design. Once in a while they might land on something really good, but it’s inconsistent. One of the solutions to this is hiring remote staff for your church on ProChurch.
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How often do you sit in a team meeting at church and feel bored or like you are wasting your time?
The CrashCourse video below is 10 minutes of great tips and suggestions regarding team meetings. And it got me to thinking about all the teams one can find in a church, from the church-tech team to the door-greeter team, and there are all sorts of other places in the church where these tips could come in handy.
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Document It: How To Document
Documenting is a way of keeping a record for not only for our own benefit but for those also affected by what we do. It is how we make sure that others aren’t incapacitated in our absence. And, in some ways also helpful in training others. We’ve explored these and other reasons in earlier posts. And, in a post preceding (Best Documenting Practices) this one in the Document It series, we explored some best practices. This series would be incomplete without looking at how to document.
Document It: Best Documenting Practices
This is one of the posts in a Document It series. The idea of the series is to look at documenting as part of the way of working in church life. In this post we’ve established the importance. Among other reasons, we determined that documenting alleviates a single point of failure. This post addressed some myths of documenting, which often stop people from doing so. It is only logical that we look at best-documenting practices.
I’ll admit upfront: this list is not exhaustive, but I hope it’ll be helpful for you and your team. Church life needn’t suffer for no good reason. So, best practices are about standardizing how you document.
Document It: Debunking Myths of Documenting
Documenting why and how we do something as a church or as a church tech team is important. It helps us keep important details safe, and accessible to others we work with. It is a way to safeguard that the Church’s mission is not compromised by our absence. You can read about the importance of documenting in this first published post in the series. We need to look into some of the things that get in the way of documenting. This makes a post on debunking the myths of documenting appropriate.
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The Best Task Management Tools of 2018
The other day I was talking to a friend and he confided in me that he is finding it hard to keep track of all the different threads going on in his life. It was especially tough switching between different types of tasks and not wasting time working out what to do next. He ended it by saying that he probably needed to get one of these task management tools to keep track of all the things he needs to do. The only problem was that he didn’t know which to pick.
After all, there are hundreds out there, many with very similar features, some with utterly unique items and many built around a specific methodology that may dramatically impact your adoption or not.
This makes it hard to pick one tool, which is why we put this roundup together. Unfortunately, that is also why it is hard to recommend just one option. As such, we’ve split the review into several different categories which include different tools which are recommended for different functions. At the same time, we do have one particular recommendation at the end which is probably a good starting point for most people.
With that in mind, this is going to be the layout for the rest of the review: