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Purpose-filled Conversations with Your Teens
Conversations with your teens can feel one-sided. There are a lot of grunts and minute head nods, or if you’re lucky–one word answers. But this is a time in their development where they make important decisions that have lasting consequences. So, how do you move past casual chats to more meaningful and purpose-filled conversations with your teens?
Coaching your kids
Translating your coaching skills to support your parenting will help you raise kids who have a clear understanding of who they are and have a solid framework for making good decisions.
Learning to trust your coach and your team
Are you at the top of your game? Even if you are, are you ready for what’s next? So many gifted and purposed pastors burn out because they are playing a solo game. Learning how to work with your team raises your effectiveness and reach in ministry.
Are You Hitting a Spiritual Wall?
If you are feeling a bit out-of-step with your faith you are not alone. We are sitting in a space where the effects of the events from the last couple of years are lingering in our everyday lives, including the church and our spiritual well-being.
How to Invest in Your Staff and Get Things Done
When you are supervising staff, you need to ensure that the needed tasks are done—and done well. I believe that can be accomplished at the same time as you also develop those staff people through coaching. Coaching and high-quality ministry do not stand in opposition to each other.
Faith Conversations That Get Results
It’s amazing what can emerge when you approach others with curiosity and a desire to learn about them. Giving careful attention to the most casual conversations can reveal opportunities to help others take the next best step in their faith journey.
Coaching Can Save the Art of Evangelism
With the rapid decline of the church in America, you are either looking for ways to reach people for Christ or you should be. Applying good coaching principles offers an approach to evangelism that is both gentle and effective.
Is this a coaching or a counseling issue?
What do you do when you’re coaching someone and you enter into a conversation that has the potential to become a counseling appointment? The two disciplines, coaching and counseling, bleed into each other and it is important to keep clear boundaries.
Taking a coaching approach in marriage
Marriage is often one of the biggest challenges for many Christ followers. Even good marriages will have hard times, and those times will demand a patience and an other-centeredness that can be hard to muster.
Coaching for Disciple Making Leaders
Are you finding it difficult to change the culture of your small group ministry from merely assimilating new people to forming disciple making communities? If you find yourself in this predicament you are certainly not alone.
Can coaching help you build better connections with neighbors?
You can use coaching skills to deepen in our engagement with casual friends and neighbors. Giving them the gift of real listening can be an amazing example of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.”
How can you help leaders prepare for retirement?
Preparing for retirement can be an exciting time. For others, however, it can be a frightening season full of unknowns. When succession and retirement is looming, you can coach ministry leaders through this season helping them gain peace and confidence.
7 habits to nurture mindfulness in your coaching
Your clients have thanked you again and again for listening both to them and to the Lord with them. That is mindfulness at work! It’s one of the most powerful practices you can bring to your coaching.
The Barnabas Questions
If you have excellent listening skills and are armed with good questions you can empower people to live into all that they can be.
Five Questions to Greater Clarity
As a coach, it’s helpful to have a few hip-pocket questions that are useful in a wide range of situations.
A risk that will make you a better coach
As a coach, you are great at asking hard questions—but they generally aren’t about you. Turning the tables on yourself with your clients is a risk you need to take.
3 Essentials When Establishing a Coaching Relationship
Getting off to a good start interpersonally is an essential part of a well-functioning coaching relationship. Although coaching is not counseling or friendship, it’s still at core a relational process. Find the essentials for establishing a coaching relationship here.
That was a great coaching moment!
Most coaching assumes a formalized coaching relationship with a beginning, a middle, and an end, with clear goals to be accomplished along the way. However, you can also use your coaching skills in less formal ways– just as a way of relating and interacting. Think of it as a “coaching moment” instead of a “coaching relationship.”
Steps to Help You Make Decisions with God
You’ve got a big decision to make. When you make a decision based on the human intellect alone you might come away with a “good decision”; in contrast, when you consider God’s perspective on a matter you engage the spiritual dimension. This will lead you down the path of prayerful decision making.
Can you find coaching in the Bible?
If you are trying to help others understand the biblical basis for coaching, here are two key scripture passages to help.
5 signs that you could be a better coach
You’ve been coaching for a while now. You may have even completed coach certification; but you feel there is something more… Are you coaching at your optimal level or could you be a better coach? How do you really know how well you’re doing?
5 Steps to Clarify Your Values
Having trouble moving forward in your ministry goals? What about those you serve? If you are struggling to fill seats and find volunteers the issue may not be WHAT you are doing but a disconnect from the WHY.
Learning to trust your coach and your team
Are you at the top of your game? Even if you are, are you ready for what’s next? So many gifted and purposed pastors burn out because they are playing a solo game. Learning how to work with your team raises your effectiveness and reach in ministry.
Are You Hitting a Spiritual Wall?
If you are feeling a bit out-of-step with your faith you are not alone. We are sitting in a space where the effects of the events from the last couple of years are lingering in our everyday lives, including the church and our spiritual well-being.
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