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Church Leadership And Infrastructure Development

The Performance Cycle

Helping An Organization Leverage The Knowledge And Expertise Of Its Best Leaders

It's all about scalability. How can an organization leverage its leadership? Its knowledge? There are only so many leadership people to go around and good leaders are extremely difficult to find. So ... building a world-class organization depends on the leader's ability to develop good systems, processes, and methods and to make them known (easy to access, learn about, use, and change as needed) to the entire … [Read more...]

Strategic Planning

A Step By Step Outline Of A Pretty Good Strategic Planning Process

Developing a “plan and execute” culture in the local church is critical to success! Here’s a “step by step” description of the process of developing a strategic plan. This can be done in a fairly short time and without much difficulty and cost. Check this out and give it a try! Flowchart Stakeholder Needs Using numerous data sources (internal opinion surveys, external demographic studies, performance metrics, … [Read more...]

Church Management Software

Some Interesting Conversations And Observations Lately On This Topic

I have conversations with church leaders about Church Management Software (CMS) almost daily. If you've been a reader for a while, you know that I consider a church's choice of CMS providers to be one of the most critical. And, as you also know, our church has been a happy Church Community Builder customer for a long time. I think it was late 2011 when we first talked to them, and our implementation was done … [Read more...]

How To Write An Operating Procedure

Some Thoughts On Writing One Of The Most Important Documents In Any Organization

The heart of any serious effort to develop infrastructure in the church is the Operating Procedure. Here on Executive Pastor Online, you'll find lots of content about infrastructure development and the role of the Management System in this process. More than any other document type in the Management System will be the Operating Procedure and associated forms, work instructions, effectiveness measures, etc. The … [Read more...]