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
Stephen Chapin Garner and Jerry Thornell, Scattering Seeds: Cultivating Congregational Vitality. Alban Institute, 2012. Referenced in: Traditional Church Renewal Congregational Ministry Teams Empowerment, Ministry-Based LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a realistic and hopeful model for the revitalization of “average” established congregations. It is especially strong on moving away from a “membership” to a “discipleship” mentality through
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,
Kenneth O. Gangel, Team Leadership in Christian Ministry: Using Multiple Gifts to Build a Unified Vision. Revised edition. Moody Press, 1997. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary This is a significant revision of Building Church Leaders for Church Education which was reprinted three times since 1970. It is a widely used encyclopedic
Dale Galloway, Building Teams in Ministry. Beacon Hill Press, 2000. Referenced in: Congregational Ministry Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Galloway edits a series of articles on team ministry from the faculty of Asbury Seminary’s Beason Institute for Advanced Church Leadership, including John Ed Mathison, Jim Jackson, Mike Foss, Jim Garlow, and Carl George. The book is divided
Dr. Paul Ford, Your Leadership Grip. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Dr. Ford is a leadership and teambuilding specialist associated with Church Resource Ministries and Church Smart Resources. Though geared more toward staff team-building, his resources are useful for any other leaders or ministry team members. Ford’s special focus is the
George Cladis, Leading the Team-Based Church: How Pastors and Church Staffs Can Grow Together into a Powerful Fellowship of Leaders. Jossey-Bass, 1999. Referenced in: Ministry Staff and Leadership Teams LifeandLeadership.com Summary Directed to staff teams, but still quite valuable on the functioning of teams in the overall ministry of the church. Cladis begins with a
