Les McKeown, The Synergist: How to Lead Your Team to Predictable Success. Palgrave Macmillian, 2012. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary McKeown shows how most teams lack a crucial ingredient that keeps them locked in perpetual gridlock among three common types – visionaries, operators, and processors. This gridlock can be reversed through
Bill Easum and Bill Tenny-Brittian, Effective Staffing for Vital Churches: The Essential Guide to Keeping the Right People. Baker Academic, 2012. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a very prescriptive process for staff development designed for missional effectiveness. The authors’ starting point is that more than anything else, how a
Robert J. Radcliffe, Effective Ministry as an Associate Pastor: Making Beautiful Music on a Ministry Team. Kregel, 1998. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Using the metaphor of harmonious playing of the same musical score, Radcliffe writes out of his own experience as an associate pastor and presents a very useful vision
David Hopewell, Sr., Keys to Becoming an Effective Associate Minister and Church Leader. Orman Press, 2004. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Written by the Minister of Evangelism at Greenforest Community Baptist Church in Decatur, Georgia. An insightful journal of his discoveries over twenty-five years in the associate pastor role. From the
Martin E. Hawkins and Kelli Sallman, Associate Pastor: Second Chair, Not Second Best. Broadman and Holman Publishers, 2005. Referenced in: Leading in Subordinate Roles Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Using the musical analogy of “second chair,” or “second fiddle,” the authors provide a very useful guide to the associate pastor role. They first
Theodore P. Fields, All the Pastor’s Men: The Associate Minister in the Black Church Setting. 1st Books Library, 2002. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Written to address the unique opportunities and challenges of associate ministers in African-American churches. From the Publisher The book, All The Pastor’s Men: The Associate Minister in
Douglas Fagerstrom, The Ministry Staff Member: A Contemporary, Practical Handbook to Equip, Encourage, and Empower. Zondervan, 2006. Reference in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams From the Publisher This is a comprehensive and practical handbook of stories, counsel, suggestions, and projects covering all the major responsibilities of serving as a staff member in today’s church. During
Mike Bonem and Roger Patterson, Leading from the Second Chair: Serving Your Church, Fulfilling Your Role, and Realizing Your Dreams. Jossey-Bass, 2005. Referenced in: Leading in Subordinate Roles Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Leadership Network always produces quality material, and one of the authors of this volume, Mike Bonem, was a contributor to
Harold J. Westing, Church Staff Handbook: How to Build an Effective Ministry Team. Revised and updated. Kregel Publications, 1997. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Westing’s first edition appeared in 1985, and the fact that it was updated in 1997 and is still in print attests to its value. Westing presents staffs
Schaller, Lyle E. The Multiple Staff and the Large Church. Abingdon, 1980. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Lyle Schaller has been called the “dean of church consultants” and voted the most respected observer of the American church scene (LA Times national religion poll.) Church leaders who ignore Lyle Schaller usually suffer
