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Does your team enjoy coming to work?
Many of us have been on teams that felt like families—especially in the church world. We may also have been on teams where we dreaded coming to work every day. Given the choice between the two, all of us would rather lead thriving teams—not just teams trying to survive through Sunday services. A healthy church staff makes for a healthy church.
But how can you cultivate a healthy culture in your church staff? No matter how positively or negatively you and your staff feel about your work environment, you can implement certain practices to develop key traits of healthy teams.
Why this course?
Reveal Blind Spots in Your Leadership
Often, the parts of our staff culture that bother us the most reflect our unaddressed leadership issues. While culture isn’t entirely downstream from leadership, our influence over our staff is powerful—and growing a healthy culture begins with looking in the mirror. Dr. Cloud will encourage and challenge us by holding up a mirror to how we lead our teams.
Establish Staff Expectations
When trying to change your staff’s culture, everyone must be on the same page. Dr. Cloud will provide tools and tips on bringing everyone along on the road to cultural change among church staff. You will feel comfortable collaborating with your staff to set expectations around what working at your church should look like and how those expectations will help everyone flourish.
Encourage Empathy and Empowerment in Your Staff
A healthy staff listens to each other and feels competent to achieve its goals. Dr. Cloud will uproot personal biases we have as a church staff to better meet each other’s needs rather than only thinking about our own.
At the end of this course, you will...
Identify the traits of a healthy church staff.
List what habits you need to stop and start in your church staff.
Grow in your leadership and communication skills as the initiator of a thriving culture.
Acquire tools and practices to foster deep connections on your team.
Included in this course:
Identify characteristics of healthy leaders and learn how to cultivate those traits in your leadership to impact your staff culture.
Avoid communication mistakes that typically trip up teams and consider what practices to implement when speaking with team members.
Establish the essentials of trusting teams and gain processes for growing and rebuilding trust within your church staff.
Unpack the idea of boundaries, how we often fail to maintain boundaries in our staff, and what we can do to compassionately and honestly use boundaries to set up our teams for success.
Learn how to handle conflict within our teams in healthy ways and see conflict as a necessary means to solve problems.
Understand key factors that contribute to thriving and joyful relationships within our staff.
Henry Cloud
Dr. Cloud is an acclaimed psychologist, author, and speaker known for his work with pastors. He is the New York Times bestselling author of Boundaries and over forty-five other books, selling over thirteen million copies. In his leadership consulting practice, Dr. Cloud works with Fortune 500 companies, churches, Christian ministries, and small businesses.
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You can use this course on your own or with other leaders at your church. The written curriculum is geared toward group discussion, but it can also be used individually.
In this six-session course, psychologist and author Dr. Henry Cloud explores how to build a healthy team culture in your church staff.
Yes. This course is only available with a RightNow Pastors+ subscription as part of a RightNow Media account. Click here for more information.
Plan for an hour to an hour and a half to go through each session, especially if you’re going through the content in a group. The videos in this series range from twenty to thirty minutes, and the discussion questions and exercises will likely take up the rest of your meeting time.
This series is six sessions long. Feel free to cover the sessions in increments that make the most sense for you and your leadership team. For some, it might work best to go through one session a week; for others, it might be better to cover one session a month. We do not recommend doubling up on sessions.
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