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What Motivates Your Team?

by Mike Schwiebert

I am always looking for new ideas and concepts that challenge my thinking and help me improve as a person and a church technical leader. I’m glad I have the opportunity to minister to the church body through technical arts, but I really value using my platform to minister to the people on my team. I believe tech is a tool God uses to spread the Gospel. It is also a tool God uses to reach technically minded people

by Jacob Barbour

Marcus Buckingham, in his book The One Thing You Need to Know, states that there are three types of people, The Leader, The Manager, and the Individual Performer (or as I like to call it, the Button Pusher).

We all have read books and been to conferences or seminars and have been challenged to be leaders.

by Jacob Barbour

By now, you are either excited about the place you are at or maybe just confused by it all or maybe you are completely defeated. For those of you who are discouraged and are saying to yourself, “What do I do now?” Don’t give up! For those who just know that they have been called by God and excited for what your church is about, you may be still asking, “So why am I still so burned out?” For both groups I want to encourage you with a few lessons that I have learned from asking all these questions of myself and seeking those answers out not only from wise people in my life, but also from my favorite author.

by Jacob Barbour

I think all of us have asked the question at one point in our ministry, “Should I even be here?”. Some of us have asked that more than once in our careers and some of you are asking that very question right now. The hours are getting longer, the frustrations are building, and your family is…

by Dustin Hamilton

I have always been a task-driven individual. I have the tendency to fill every day with items from “the list.” It feels great – the desire that drives so many us: stay busy; get stuff done. Recently, however, I learned a lesson from this habit. I got so caught up in getting stuff done that I prevented my own team from excelling in their strengths.

by Wes Wakefield

Have you ever felt totally inadequate for a task or project assigned to you? If so, you’re not alone! All good technical directors have had this thought at some point in their career, and if they haven’t, chances are they were in blissful denial of their inadequacy. Unfortunately, many churches that choose to hire a technical director (TD) expect that person to be an expert in…

by Jason Castellente

I heard someone say a few days ago that “ministry would be really awesome without people”. Now, they obviously said this sarcastically and in jest but this something we could be subliminally thinking about. Sure, dealing with people and working as a team can be frustrating but unless we learn how to treat people…

by Christina Jessup

I remember coming on staff as a church technical leader thinking I got this… I am equipped and ready. I’ll work hard and get a lot accomplished for God. I quickly realized that ministry is much different than the corporate world. I realized that this is much more than a job -this was my calling.