High performance and effective teams don’t happen by accident. They’re a result of deliberate, calculated action. Committing time, energy and other resources is not optional. Strategy is necessary. Strategy is about creating a symphony of with the resources. One of the critical components for building the said teams is training. It is one of the most critical bricks in the foundation. Before looking at ways to train tech teams, here’s why structured training is important.
Sound Booth Accomplished: How to Get Things Done at Your Church
You cannot believe how much maturity was required to prevent me from making a joke about how my church’s sound booth is finally “finished.” Of course, telling you about it sort of undercuts the whole thing.
Oh well.
Almost five years ago, I confessed to all of you that my church had been struggling with getting things done, but today, I’m proud to say that we’re finally finding some victory – sound booth is done!
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6 Tips to Better Recruit Volunteers
Over the last eleven years, I’ve been in a variety of positions within a handful of churches and ministries, serving with different intents and capacities. I’ve gone from a church tech volunteer to volunteer team lead, hired as a youth pastor, consulted with numerous churches, served as digital manager, and now working with ChurchMag to do outreach. Regardless of capacity, the one thing I have found myself needing to do is find volunteers, even as a senior staff writer for this blog.
The Best Task Management Tools for 2016
We all have more pressures on our time. Most of us are juggling some day job commitment, church ministry, maybe a side hustle, our own spiritual growth and not to forget family matters. Managing our tasks on a day to day basis as well as on a longer term basis is a really struggle for most of us, so it’s no surprise there are so many different task management and todo lists applications and tools out there.
In many ways they are the “hello world” post of app development, I’ve heard more than one story of an app developer wanting to make an app, needing a tool to help them manage the project, trying a whole host of different tools and then deciding to make their own tool to (finally) solve their own itch and problem.
This is great because it means there are a variety of tools which you can use and will suit your own habits, needs and productivity types. However, the bad news is that you may end up endlessly switching between different todo apps looking for the right one for you, or wondering if there is a better option out there for you.
How And Why I Use Mind Maps
I’m no genius. Every now and then my memory fails me. I sometimes get overwhelmed with the amount of detail or information that comes my way. Many years ago my uncle told me that my notebooks had better memory than me. He was right. The day he told me that, my life changed. A tower of old notebooks and journals stands as evidence in my study.
With time, the ideas and information I’ve had to capture and process grew, a lot. It became important to somehow index my ideas. I needed to get smarter with how I not only captured but processed information. From study notes to brainstorming, I’ve experimented with many ways of capturing ideas and information.
The RPG Productivity Player’s Guide: You Can’t Twink your Way to Health
[This is part 10 in the RPG Productivity Player’s Guide series.]
The great thing about games, and RPG’s specifically, is that you can do stuff you can’t do in real life. Twinking is a perfect example: giving a new or lowly character resources he’d normally not have access to through a powerful character. It’s in essence a smart way of cheating.
In real life, it doesn’t quite work that way. And one of the areas where this is most true is in your health. [Read more…] about The RPG Productivity Player’s Guide: You Can’t Twink your Way to Health