Team Building

February 9, 2011 Leave a comment

I’ve recently been studying team building while pursuing my masters in Christian leadership at Liberty University. It’s prompted me to organize thoughts on how I build my teams. I figured I would share them with all the team builders out there.

The first thing that comes to mind is importance of selecting the leaders on the team. It’s absolutely amazing you can accomplish when you have the right people in the right spots. You can take over a field in business, win a city, build a dynasty, and pretty much do anything with the right team. Jesus hand picked his twelve members and so should we.

Over the next few posts I will share qualities that I look for in potential team members or leaders.

Here are some excellent books on team building:

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Catalyst One Day

March 23, 2010 Leave a comment

Headed to Chicago tomorrow with my dad. He’s hooking me up with a trip to Catalyst One Day with Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel. It’s going to be a great trip!

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Long Overdue

March 3, 2010 Leave a comment

Sorry for lack of updates!

Here ya go:

  • We are starting an Elevation college ministry in Little Rock in August! So we are strategizing how to do the whole dual campus thing. If you have any tips lemme know.
  • Women’s event Sunday night was insane. Seriously. Etroupe dance team was crazy good and so was everything else. Videos, decor, worship, and Christine Caine spoke. An amazing event.
  • I’m starting my masters degree in Christian leadership at Liberty University on March 22nd. Really pumped about this.
  • I’m speaking at a college ministry in Texarkana, TX on Thursday night called The Connection. Should be fun.
  • I’ll be headed out to Colorado next week to go to John Eldredge’s Wild at Heart Boot Camp. I’m going with like 10 other older men. Can’t wait to learn from all their life experiences of being a husband, father, and man of God. Plus, John Eldredge may have something to say too. :)
  • My dad is taking me to a conference in Chicago next month. Catalyst One Day. Andy Stanley and Craig Groeschel teaching on momentum. Yes please.

That’s all I can think of at the moment. I feel like that was all positive so here is one negative. I’m tired.

Peace.

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Random Update

June 22, 2009 Leave a comment

  • Ashley and Mac hooked me up big time yesterday for Fathers Day. Pics to come soon. 
  • I’m reading The Principle of the Path by Andy Stanley
  • People think that because I work with college students that I’m still in college. I’m flattered but I’m almost 28.
  • I’m working on being more patient. It’s hard. 
  • Planning for Elevation in the fall semester is going better than expected. Get ready get ready get ready. 
  • It’s HOT in Arkansas!!!!!! 

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Being Teachable Towards Others: Ask Great Questions

April 20, 2009 Leave a comment

Recently I had the opportunity to hang out with Andy Stanley, who in my opinion is one of most influential and innovative pastors in the world. Not a bad communicator either! He was coming to our church to speak and I had a list of questions for him. But when I picked him up from the airport he turned it around on me and beat me to it. He was asking me tons of questions about our church and my family. Brilliant. He wrote book called the The Best Question Ever. Go buy it. 

We can learn so much just by asking the right questions. If you meet with someone don’t expect them to teach you something. Tell them what you want to learn from them. Ask them great questions.

Questions For Others:

What can I work on?

What strengths/weaknesses do you see in me?

Questions For Yourself (I ask myself these questions everyday almost intuitively now):

Am I growing and gaining wisdom?

Am I becoming more Christ-like?

Am I becoming a better leader?

Am I humble and submitted to God?

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Catalyst West Coast

April 14, 2009 2 Comments

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Thanks to the University of Central Arkansas, who gave me some money to go to a conference, I will be attending Catalyst West Coast next week. Quite a speaker lineup:

  • Andy Stanley
  • Rick Warren
  • Brian Houston
  • Guy Kawasaki
  • Erwin McManus 
  • Craig Groeschel
  • Francis Chan
  • Perry Noble

Oh yea, and Hillsong United is leading worship. They’re not bad…

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