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Do You Have “Missional Integrity”?

The present love affair with corporate mission statements must be more than a framed eight-by-twelve well-wordsmithed paragraph hung on a...

VBS…an Emergent Problem?

The Integrity value is one of four key elements we’ve identified as being absolutely essential for the health and effectiveness of any...

How Is Your Mission?

In our work with churches in assessing the four key elements of healthy organizations, the first one we typically look at is the...

How To Dream...

After years of working with churches, we’re finding that the Imagination element is typically the least exercised of the four critical...

Spiritual Vitality...and Age

Years ago we identified 4 critical elements all healthy churches practiced, regardless of size or stripe: Integrity: systems, processes,...

2 Critical Leadership Skills in a Crisis

How Are You Exercising These in Your Church? In the book Elemental Leaders, we identify 4 critical elements every effective leader must...

The Organizational Integrity Triangle

What Do You Think of When You See the Word “INTEGRITY”? Typically, we default to thinking about it at a personal individual level. But...

The Four Elements of Effective Churches

How About a New Way to Measure Healthy Effectiveness? All healthy churches are characterized by four key traits: Integrity, Passion,...

The Hidden Power of Healthy Systems

How Effective Are Your Processes For Accomplishing Your Church's Mission? I have to smile when people tell me that they are spiritual,...

Are You An Elemental Leader?

The 4 Fundamental Factors for Effective Leadership Over the decades, I’ve had some good bosses and some not-so-good bosses. And...