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Tony Morgan pulled 12 questions that Marcus Buckingham developed to uncover employee's job satisfaction.  I'm wondering if/how to work these into our Next Gen's year end assessment and planning.  Any ideas?  Follow the jump to read more...

WHY PEOPLE QUIT

If you're like me and make your living leading a volunteer organization, inevitably you've heard the words, "I'm taking a season off from serving/volunteering", or "I feel the Lord moving me on" or my favorite "I just don't feel called to serve here anymore".  While many times these are valid and Spirit Led decisions, sometimes they're really Christian code for "I QUIT!"  I read a great article by Barbara Beach who outlines several reasons why people quit, and what leaders can do to retain their volunteers.  Here is a summery and link to her article:

Reasons Volunteers Quit

1. Volunteers aren't challenged.
2. Volunteers don't have a job description.
3. Volunteers aren't sure of their performance.
4. Volunteers aren't trained.

Follow the link to read the rest of the article and link to the original.

Teamwork

Ever wonder what the essence of teamwork is?  These guys have it nailed...

LINK!

Tonight was the Grand Finale for our LINK Leadership gatherings.  Bellow are the notes I used for the presentation and the handout we provided.  If they can be of use to you please take advantage of them.  Also, the books I mentioned are listed on the right side of this page.  I'd like to credit Tim Elmore who has shaped my thinking on mentoring and Robert Coleman for his writings on Discipleship and Evangelism.  Enjoy, and keep leading!

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Getting Older and Younger...

This is an excerpt from Glenn Burris' weekly email to Foursquare Leaders.  Glenn is not only a VP of Foursquare but he is a father in the faith to many of the emerging leaders within the  movement.  I love the heart and focus that we have to keep reaching back to emerging leaders as we move forward into the future.

At Christ Church in Cambridge, England, there is a stone that reads, "On this place, John and Charles Wesley were prayed for and sent into the ministry to bring an awakening to the nations!" Grab some oil and let's start looking for the men and women that God has already placed His hands on for ministry. This should be of highest priority. "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field." (Matthew 9:38 NIV)

Looking for the next generation of ministers,

Glenn Burris Jr

How do you manage stress? Part 3 of 3

Here's the exciting conclusion of our look at how different successful leaders handle their stressful lives.

* Jane Friedman (CEO of HarperCollins) is "an email addict" who checks her email virtually every waking moment via computer or BlackBerry and personally reads every single email that anyone sends to her.

* Judge Richard Posner (U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, Chicago) has few phone conversations and relies almost entirely on emails, returns emails on a laptop rather than a BlackBerry, gets up before 8 a.m., arrives at work before 10 a.m., returns home after lunch and works until 11:30 p.m. from home.

* Henry "Hank" Paulson (Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs) never uses email, but spends the day on the phone leaving and personally responding to a few hundred voicemails without any screening, works out five times a week, and sleeps nearly eight hours a night.

* Brett Yormark (CEO Nets Basketball) wakes up around 3:30 a.m., is in the office by 4 a.m. on weekdays and 7 a.m. on weekends, and often works until midnight.

How do you manage stress? Part 2 of 3

Here's part 2 of a list of how some very successful managers handle their busy lives.  My friend and colleague Kelly wrote her own post about balanced living at her blog.  There's no time like the present to do a little self inventory to see where you stand...

* A. G. Lafley (Chairman, President, and CEO of Proctor & Gamble) takes a 5–15 minute walking break every hour or hour and a half to refresh, eats 5–6 smaller meals a day to manage his glycemic levels, prefers conversations to emails, works some on weekends, focuses on developing leaders, and spends time each day meditating.

* Amy W. Schulman (Partner of DLA Piper) has one assistant from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. and a second from 4 p.m. to midnight, wakes up between 5 a.m. and 6 a.m., arrives at the office around 8 a.m., gets home around 7:30 p.m., is online doing her 600 daily emails until midnight, has two cell phones from two carriers to ensure constant coverage, and tries to turn off her cell phone and BlackBerry during meals and in movie theaters.

* John McCain (U.S. Senator from Arizona) reads emails but does not write any because he is a "Neanderthal" who cannot type and barely knows how to visit a website, has no laptop or Palm Pilot, keeps his daily schedule in his pocket on a note card, and leans heavily on his Chief of Staff who has been with him for 17 years.

How do you manage stress? Part 1 of 3

If you are like most people, you feel like your life is busy and there's no end in site.  Mark Driscoll preached a message called "Death by Ministry" to help put busyness into perspective, especially if you're in ministry.  As a part of his message he shared how certain "Big Time" execs have come to terms with the demands on their time.  Here's a few, more to come:

* From 1978 to 1984, Bill Gates took only 6 days off.
* Carlos Ghosn (CEO of Renault and Nissan) has an assistant screen all emails and documents, will not allow a meeting to exceed 90 minutes, splits meeting time into half presentation and half discussion, and has to have at least 6 hours of sleep and his weekends off.
* Marissa Mayer (VP at Google) gets 700 to 800 emails a day, sometimes spends 14 hours straight on Saturdays and Sundays catching up on email, and has learned to live on 4–6 hours of sleep a night.
* Howard Schultz (Chairman of Starbucks) rises between 5 and 5:30 a.m. and prefers face-to-face meetings and phone appointments over emails.
* Bill Gross (Chief Investment Officer of Pimco) gets up around 4:30 a.m., arrives at the office around 6 a.m., refuses to look at any emails he does not want to, only answers the phone 3–4 times a day, does not have a cell phone, does not have a BlackBerry, is intentionally disconnected with the exception of his wife, and works out for an hour and a half every day.

Leadership 101

Today we had a great conversation about our forthcoming LINK leaders meetings on the fourth Wednesday of Feb, Mar, Ap, May.  During our chat about what leaders need and want these thoughts came to my mind:

1. Fundamentally, leaders have to lead.  Just because someone is given a responsibility that requires them to delegate tasks does NOT mean that they are a leader. 
2. Some people have great people skills but are poor leaders.
3. Leaders should must constantly know who they are leading.  If they're not in your speed dial, you're probably not leading them.
4. Leaders grow intentionally, not on accident.
5. Leaders have to be willing to go BEFORE the people they lead, and then stay after to clean up the left overs.
6. Leaders have to really love people.
7. Leaders must, must, must have VISION.

Any adds or challenges?

NextGen Team #1

Today began our series of Team Training meetings for the NextGen Team.  We focused on the idea that "You teach WHAT you know, but you reproduce WHO you are".  It's one thing to educate people through the transmission of fact and theory, it's another thing to affect life change in other people because you embody your message. In order to "live your message" you have to spend time getting to know God through His word and worship.  Too many people are content to pass on information that has never even settled into their own heart. 

We were bummed that Pastor Shane couldn't join us, but we hope he's having fun on vacation in Texas...

Here are 3 ways that God wants to interact with His people through Worship from Exodus 25:

He wants to dwell in our midst (time together) vs 8
He wants to meet with us (interaction) vs 22
He wants to speak to us (illumination) vs 22