Sticky Teams
Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page
- Church Leadership & Ministry
- Publisher: Zondervan Reflective (Zondervan)
- Published: 2010
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Publisher's Description
Learn the secrets to building and maintaining a healthy, productive, and unified ministry team that sticks together for the long haul. Serving as a church leader can be a tough calling. Whatever your role, odds are you've known your share of the frustration and disillusionment that comes with turf battles, conflicting vision, and marathon meetings. You may have asked yourself, "How did it get this way?" With twenty years of front-line ministry experience, Larry Osborne understands congregations (as baffling as they can sometimes be) and he know how the best-intentioned teams can become disrupted and disunified. With this book, he aims to shore up the foundation of a healthy team--what does a unified and thriving church leadership look like and how can it be achieved? Sticky Teams is divided into three main sections, dealing with key aspects of what it takes to develop long-term, efficient harmony: Landmines and Roadblocks exposes the organizational structures, policies, and traditions that can unintentionally sabotage even the best of teams. You'll discover strategies for managing conflicts and getting around obstacles. Equipped for Ministry explores what it takes to get everyone on the same page and headed in the same direction. Chapters deal with practical tips for board, staff, and congregational alignment. Communication examines what it takes to keep everyone on the same page, with a special emphasis on some especially dicey areas and issues of ministry, such as conversations about money. Whatever your situation; from start-up phase, to mid-sized, to megachurch, Osborne has been there. As the pastor of North Coast Church, he's walked his board, staff, and congregation through the process of becoming more genuinely unified, and, because of that, better able to carry out God's design for his church. With warm encouragement and insight, he shares expertise that most pastors and leadership teams learn only from long experience: how to invest the time to create church harmony and how to lead so that unity is maintained long-term.
Endorsements (38)
“Praise A must-read for any leader who cares about unity.”
“leader’s leader.” He has been delivering kingdom results for a couple of decades through the ministry of North Coast Church. Sticky Teams unlocks the secret of building effective leadership at every level. This is a must-read book for any leader.”
“Best of Larry” is out and available for all to enjoy! These truths will shape your leadership for years to come.”
“Addresses every aspect of organizations with commonsense, pragmatic solutions.”
Dr. Samuel R. Chand
“What Sticky Church was to small groups, Sticky Teams is to church leadership. This is the most practical book I’ve read on the subject. Sticky Teams is a must-read!”
“Captures the innovative knowledge of a proven pastor that will help you avoid the painful mistakes that will occur without proactive consideration.”
“You’ll find yourself saying, “That’s so true. How come I’ve never heard anyone say that before?” This book will help you build a team and keep them on the same page.”
“Filled with practical wisdom from one of the most insightful Christian leaders. Every leader needs to read it.”
“The book I needed when I landed in the jungles of my first pastorate. Destined to be a standard.”
“Addresses issues that are often avoided, from setting salaries to handling a church board to firing underperforming staff.”
“No one has more practical, down-to-earth, but Spirit-filled wisdom than Larry Osborne.”
“Profound yet simple ideas that will inspire any leader to proactively implement lasting developmental changes.”
“Speaks to the issues pastors of growing churches face every day and offers sane and tested ways to turn those issues into fuel for the mission of Christ.”
“Whenever someone has asked me how to handle some tricky situation around our church, I’ve pulled out old notes from conversations with Larry. I am stoked that I no longer have to dig up old notes. I merely have to hand out copies of Sticky Teams.”
“Counterintuitive wisdom that will help you and your people flourish whether you serve a church of five, five hundred, or five thousand.”
“In my twenty years of knowing Larry, I’ve described him as the guy who was asking and answering the questions the rest of us were not ready to deal with yet.”
Dr. John Jackson
“If you want to build a team that will impact your organization and your community, you want this book!”
“What the church needs, in every generation, is fresh perspective and seasoned experience. It’s rare to find both in one voice, but that’s what I’ve come to expect from Larry Osborne.”
“Every pastor, board member, and church committee member in America ought to read and discuss this book. The chapter “What Game Are We Playing?” may have saved my ministry.”
“Larry’s insights are priceless on three counts: thoroughly practical, totally readable, and highly transferable to your unique leadership context.”
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