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)
“Consider this book required reading. Larry’s valuable insights could save so many church leaders from serious problems.”
“No-nonsense, in-the-trenches leadership wisdom that only Larry Osborne delivers.”
“Practical insights not just on what to do but on how to do it, and full of values that Osborne has lived out and led through over the years.”
“can only imagine the land mines I could have avoided if I’d had it twenty-five years ago.”
“Lots of people talk about community; few help us figure out how to build community. Larry Osborne is one of the few.”
“This is possibly the best book on leadership ever written. Everyone should buy multiple copies.”
“Guides leaders into some of the most important but counterintuitive keys to developing a healthy team while making room for emerging leaders. A must-read for every pastor who cares about having having God-honoring, community-rich leadership for the local church.”
“Larry Osborne is the king of common sense and counterintuitive leadership. Sticky Teams overflows with the insights and the wisdom of experience.”
“Full of great lessons that will help any church leader build teams that serve together better.”
“Practical, sound biblical strategies to be a better leader.”
“Whatever the size of your church, Larry has something to share on how to remove the obstacles that prevent staffs and boards from working together effectively.”
Dr. Stacy L. Spencer
“One of those books you will read more than once. It is wise and practical, just like its author.”
“This is the stuff we thought they’d teach us in seminary. Sticky Teams is going on my list of must-read books for pastors.”
“If you relate to boards, lead a staff, or are thinking about starting a church, this ought to be one of the first books you purchase.”
“A brilliant book that every ministry leader should be required to read before accepting an appointment on a board, on a staff, or as a pastor.”
“All the young leaders I engage want Osborne as their mentor. Sticky Teams contains the best thinking about practical church leadership that you will find today.”
“For anyone who wants a healthy functional church.”
“I plan to make this book required reading for each student and intern who plans to succeed in ministry!”
Dr. Wayne Cordeiro
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