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
Sue Mallory, The Equipping Church: Serving Together to Transform Lives. Zondervan, 2001. Companion volume: Mallory, Smith, Wilson and Rehnborg, The Equipping Church Guidebook Referenced in: Ministry Involvement and Gift-Based Ministry Congregational Ministry Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Mallory served as founding Executive Director of Leadership Training Network and as Directional Leader and Executive Director for Leadership Connection.
Kenneth Blanchard and Jesse Stoner, Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Company and Your Life. Berrett-Koehler, 2004. Referenced in: Ministry Teams, General Resources LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a parable about a how a team reshapes its vision (clarified purpose, values and picture of the desired future) to revitalize an insurance company.
Kenneth Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles, High Five! The Magic of Working Together. William Morrow, 2000. Referenced in: Ministry Teams, General Resources LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is an inspirational parable about teamwork based on a fictional character who loses his job because he is not a team player. He starts coaching his son’s hockey team, and learns
Kenneth Blanchard, Donald Carew and Eunice Parisi-Carew, One Minute Manager Builds High Performing Teams: Excellence Through Team Building. Revised and Updated Edition. William Morrow, 2009. Referenced in: Ministry Teams, General Resources LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is Blanchard’s best on team building in typical story format. It integrates and simplifies the standard concepts of the stages of
E. Stanley Ott, Transform Your Church With Ministry Teams. Eerdmans, 2005. Referenced in: Congregational Ministry Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Ott builds on all the best resources on practices to make this one of the most well-researched and well-written books on lay-ministry development. It is not limited to leadership teams, but the insights translate well into any
Patrick Lencioni, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars: A Leadership Fable About Destroying the Barrier That Turn Colleagues Into Competitors. Jossey-Bass, 2006. Related volumes: Lencioni, Five Dysfunctions of a Team Lencioni, Death by Meeting Referenced in: Ministry Teams, General Resources LifeandLeadership.com Summary Lencioni is the author of the best-selling books on teamwork. In this book, he
Patrick Lencioni, Death by Meeting: A Leadership Fable About Solving the Most Painful Problem in Business. Jossey-Bass, 2004. Related volumes: Lencioni, Five Dysfunctions of a Team Lencioni, Silos, Politics, and Turf Wars Referenced in: Ministry Teams, General Resources LifeandLeadership.com Summary Lencioni argues there are two problems with regard to meetings. First, they are boring, tedious,
Patrick Lencioni on Team Building Lencioni, Patrick, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable. Jossey-Bass, 2002. Companion volumes: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: Participant Workbook Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Facilitator’s Guide Referenced in: Ministry Teams,
