The concept of workplace or employee engagement has been talked about and studied for a long time. In simple terms, engagement means a genuine commitment to an organization that goes beyond a simple transactional (or “membership”) relationship. My wife, once when...
Dear friends: How do you achieve order out of chaos? More pointedly, how to congregational leaders (clergy or laity) lead or facilitate meetings and decision-making processes so that the group is able to make a good decision and not hopelessly divide the group by...
Stay away from negative people They have a problem for every solution. We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. You never stop failing until you stop trying. Life is...
From Perspectives By Susan Nienaber This morning as I was driving to one of the churches in my district I listened to the radio to get caught up on the news. It was all about President Trump’s tweets regarding the NFL and the National Anthem, escalating tensions with...
By John Wimberly As an advocate for using teams to carry out the work of a congregation and for eliminating as many committees as possible, I often get phone calls like this: “John, we read your book and decided to move from a committee-driven to a team-driven...
