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Within this book you will find the way up to the next level of leadership, allowing you to better handle your role as a staff or ministry leader. It will also provide insights that will give you more time to be the leader that God is calling you to be.Topics include:
* Understand the true purpose of ministry leadership
* Put people first while accomplishing your goals
* Identify and share your purpose and vision
* Add a structured approach to your team
* Train new team members
* Balance the dynamics of church ministry
* Recruit volunteers effectively
Get the Handle With Care eBook
Recruiting Volunteers
Learn to recruit the right volunteers for your ministry
- Recruiting Volunteers
- One of the patterns I've seen constantly in ministry is the use of the same list of people when a new volunteer is needed. Often, the need is very short term (reactive) instead of medium-to-long term (proactive). So, who do you go to first when you have a new position to fill? Let me guess - the same people that always say 'yes', right? If not, give yourself a pat on the back. If so, brace yourself.
- Targeting the Right Volunteers
- If you are building your team early on, you need volunteers that have a strong walk with the Lord, a heart to serve, and some basic understanding of your ministry. The most difficult part of starting a ministry is building a team of people that will allow the ministry to thrive rather flounder...
- Interviewing Volunteers
- Now that you are starting to recruit, you'll begin to get some interested people to sign up. The next step is to conduct an interview to determine if the recruit is a good fit for your ministry.
- Integrating New Volunteers
- Now that you are actively recruiting, you will begin to locate new volunteers that match your ministry. The next step is to integrate them into your team. Here are some suggestions...
- Saying "Goodbye" to Volunteers
- Inevitably, the time will come when a volunteer decides to move on...
FREE PDF eBook on Recruiting Volunteers
CLICK HERE to Learn More and Download the FREE PDF eBook on Recruiting VolunteersWant to recruit volunteers for your church ministry?
No matter where you may be in your leadership, recruiting volunteers can be one of the most difficult tasks you will encounter. Even if you are able to teach a room full of kids, design a website, or manage hundreds of youth, recruiting may not come easy.
This FREE, easy-to-read electronic book ("eBook") provides a simple approach to recruiting more volunteers for your church ministry. Whether you are a new leader or have been leading for years, there is something new and fresh to learn about recruiting volunteers.
5 Steps to Easier Volunteer Recruiting
This book is designed to open your eyes to new ways of thinking about recruiting. It will provide some ideas, inspiration, and a 5-step process that will help you to improve your ability to recruit new volunteers for your town.
* Volunteer Recruiting Step 1: Prepare
* Volunteer Recruiting Step 2: Find
* Volunteer Recruiting Step 3: Interview
* Volunteer Recruiting Step 4: Integrate
* Volunteer Recruiting Step 5: Retain
CLICK HERE to Learn More and Download the FREE PDF eBook on Recruiting Volunteers
Volunteer Management
Apply volunteer management best practices to maximize your ministry
- Volunteers Have Higher Priority
- the average volunteer may have around 5-10 hours of time per week to put forth into helping out your ministry (assuming only 1 ministry involvement). So, how do we, as lay or full-time leaders, treat them and utilize their time? Here are some ideas...
- Managing Volunteers
- Day-in, day-out. Week-in, week-out. Month-in, month-out. What is keeping your volunteers going? How does a leader keep their volunteers happy?
- Preventing and Dealing with Burnout
- Anthony Coppedge has a great 3 part series on dealing with burnout in the tech arts.
- Volunteer-Centric or Staff-Centric?
- Many churches like to think that they are volunteer-centric. In fact, many will say something like "Sure, we love volunteers! Who would turn down volunteers?" But in fact, many churches rely on their staff to do a large portion of the weekly work.
Project Management for Ministry Leaders
How to apply a simple to maximize your ministry and volunteers
- Project Centered Ministry
- In this first installment in a new series on project management, I want to start out by defining what I view as a project...
- Define Your Project
- Before a project can begin, we must define it...
- Project Milestones: Setting the Pace
- The pace you set for your ministry will be defined by a number of factors, but often the key factor is the milestones...
- Project Risks: When Bad Things Happen to Good Projects
- Some days, things just go wrong. Servers fail. Computers crash. People don't show up...
- Project Compromise: The Iron Triangle
- Once you have your milestones and risks assessed, the next step is to begin to chart the project timeline. The first step is determining the time, scope, and cost...
- Project Planning: Creating a Strawman Plan
- It may be early in the life of your church project, but often you have to provide a timeline for a project to your stakeholders...
- Strawman Project Plan: An Example
- An example of a strawman plan and tips for creating one...
- Project Requirements: Know What You Need To Do
- This phase describes more about how your project will be conducted, and requires that you capture more detailed requirements from those involved...
- Project Work: Buy vs. Build Basics
- Everything is a trade-off: time vs. money, low-cost vs. high-cost, high-tech vs. low-tech. Before you start, perform a buy vs. build to determine what purchasing decisions need to be made...
- Project Work: Performing a Buy vs. Build
- How to start perform a buy vs. build...
- Recruiting Volunteers for Projects
- Projects provide the ministry leader with a very strategic recruiting strategy...
- Projects: Managing the Tasks
- Whenever you are ready to execute a project, you must be prepared to manage the tasks...
- Milestone and Project Wrap-Up
- As your milestone or project ends, schedule some time to learn what worked and how to improve the next project...
by James H
James Higginbotham is a consultant, software architect, author, and entrepreneur. He is the author of the Agile Ministry blog.
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