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Is your client working with an unhealthy team?
Recruiting volunteers has always been a touchy ministry subject. But since the pandemic recruiting and keeping volunteers and lay leaders necessary to run a ministry has become increasingly difficult. Here’s 5 reasons why.
Coaching through Scandal
If you stay in the coaching game long enough, at some point you will coach leaders on how to deal with division in the body, disciplinary issues, and, well, scandal. Sadly, these issues are a part of life. As a coach, you have an opportunity to help leaders rise above the problem and take the higher ground.
Getting revitalization right
Your client’s church is in a slump. Whether it’s just a feeling or a steadying decline in attendance the word that is in the back of your head is revitalization. It’s clearly time to do something new. Here are 4 revitalization strategies to help your client make the right changes.
Set effective—and reachable—goals
Your client has a big vision. To help them see that vision become reality means strategically breaking up that vision into manageable goals. Easier said than done…
Is timidity in the way?
Timidity can feel like a major obstacle to overcome. The good news is that assertiveness is a skill that can be learned. Here’s a good place to start.
How good are you at time management… really?
You’ve thought it. You might even recall (with a pit in your stomach) of a time you’ve been told to “get your priorities straight”. We’ve all been there. Either way, it’s a red flag that you aren’t managing your time well. The good news is, prioritizing is the first step in the right direction.
How to Coach Your Client to Curate Their Library
To “curate” goes beyond simply arranging books on a shelf; it means making intentional choices about the authors and works that have deeply impacted you. This process invites you to recognize the transformative potential of the written word in shaping your journey. At its core, the term “curate” conveys a role of stewardship, of taking care of something precious—your intellectual and spiritual development. That’s the essence of this endeavor.
Coaching to Develop Problem Solving Skills
Your clients come to you because they are stuck and need help moving forward. Often, because you are experienced and have the benefit of objectivity, you can pinpoint the problem and have a good idea where the solution lies. It’s tempting just to provide that help, knowing that clients will find it helpful.
5 Challenges Every House Church Faces
House Churches are becoming more common. Are you ready to coach their leadership toward effective ministry?
When church planters need coaching the most
No one likes feeling stuck. Coaching church planters when they are at critical sticking points helps them move forward with clarity and confidence.
How to reboot your church board
If you feel like your board is tying your hands from moving forward effectively in ministry—or if your board members feel like you are tying their hands—there’s need for a reboot.
The best investment you can make in your church
It’s not a building or hiring additional staff members. And it’s not coming up with a new program. The best investment you can make in your church is to help develop the innate leadership skills in the people who are already there.
Ready to grow your coaching business?
Want to grow your coaching business? Here are 5 Steps to get you (and keep you) on track.
Top Ten Coaching Blog Posts of 2023
Looking back at the posts that you engaged with the most in 2023. It’s an insightful peek into what matters most to YOU, which helps to direct us in how to continue to offer you resources and solutions in 2024.
Ministry and Social Media
Whatever your feelings are about it, social media is an important piece of communication that you—and your ministry clients have to get right.
Creative Approaches to Casting Vision
Helping them have eyes to see is the aim of casting vision. It is an essential piece of any ministry—for without vision the ministry will inevitably decline.
Working with Different Generations
Reaching and working with people from various generations needs to be intentional. Here are some strategies you can work through with your coaching clients.
Coaching through Scandal
If you stay in the coaching game long enough, at some point you will coach leaders on how to deal with division in the body, disciplinary issues, and, well, scandal. Sadly, these issues are a part of life. As a coach, you have an opportunity to help leaders rise above the problem and take the higher ground.
Change is hard. Here’s how you can make it a little easier.
Sometimes initiating a change initiative can bring everything to a screeching halt. Most people like the idea of change—they feel the need for it. But change hits hard and fast causing people to seize up, shut down, become angry or uncooperative. As a coach, you can help your leaders to manage change in a way that is honoring to those affected and actually moves things forward.
Is your board functioning well?
Being stuck with a dysfunctional board can feel like a being out to sea, alone on a sailboat, without wind. You can’t get anywhere and it feels like there is nothing you can do about it. But there is!
Level Up To Transformational Learning
Your goal as a coach is greater than the tasks at hand. Excellent coaching moves a client through reflection to action to transformational learning.
Finding Your Ideal Coaching Client
Successful coaches are always looking to expand their work by finding new clients, but it can be difficult to know which clients are right for you.
Is your feedback actually helpful?
As a coach, you know how important it is to listen, to ask questions, and to listen again. But you also know that this a time to speak. The same is true for your clients. 4 tips on how to give appropriate and helpful feedback.
3 Listening Exercises
Listening is a hugely important—and often underrated—skill set. You know as a coach how critical it is to listening well. The better you listen, the more effective you’ll be. Three ways to improve listening skills.
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