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No Win Situations

October 25, 2011 in Management and Leadership, Uncategorized with 1 Comment

One of my favorite little mind exercises is to read about a tough situation and put myself into the leader’s situation.

What would I do in that situation?

Last week I was completely obsessed with the story out of Zainesville, Ohio. If you’ve been living in a cave..HERE’s a link.

Here’s the basic set-up.

You’re the Sheriff in a small town and a call comes across the radio that many exotic animals are running lose from a local piece of property you’ve been to before.

You know there are over 50 wild animals in that “zoo.” You know there are MANY Lions…MANY Tigers….Wolves….and Grizzly Bears.

You know…when you were on the property before that the animals were aggressive…

It’s getting to be dusk….

It’s raining…

The next call over the radio is asking permission to “Shoot to Kill.”

What do you do?

Believing in Cheating

October 4, 2011 in Leading yourself with 1 Comment

I had an interesting experience last week.

Basically for you to understand it you need to know a few things. It starts a few weeks ago when I was asked to sit on the leadership team for North Point Ministries.

To me, that was a very humbling, flattering, and exciting opportunity.

And so, for the last few weeks, on Tuesday mornings, I have prayed myself up and walked into a room full of very talented people to intimidate the FOOL out of me!

So…last week was supposed to be my fourth time in that meeting…BUT…the challenges of raising a young family had other plans!

For those of you who have multiple little ones…you know how this goes!

EARLY in the morning someone throws up…and then the chain reaction begins…until the sun rises on one exhausted momma. (It’s not that I can’t help…it’s the fact that no one wants Daddy when they’re sick!)

But that wasn’t it. As the morning came…so came the requirements of a new day.

And…as I looked at my wife…I could tell. This was just one of those days that comes along every once in a while. A day when my family needed me.

And I was faced with this decision.

Take Your Boss to #Orange12 – Winner

September 29, 2011 in Uncategorized with 2 Comments

Winner…Winner…Chicken Dinner!

So…a week or so ago we launched THIS competition.

A couple of quick comments before we announce the winners.

I wish I could give 10 sets of tickets away…you guys (ladies included) are awesome.

I picked this winner because of a few of things…

1. I love that this pastor spent time in Family Ministry and I don’t want him to forget!

2. I want to help rejuvenate a church.

3. I love that the board of the church is concerned for families.

4. I want to give a husband and wife time away!

That being said…here is the winning letter.

My Wife and I – Crystal Patey, Youth & Children’s Pastor at Trinity Pentecostal Church, Baie Verte – have spent the last number of years in Youth & Children’s Ministry. Now, we have taken up the challenge of being the Senior Pastors in a small church of about 100 people, in the community of Baie Verte, NL., Canada, pop. approx. 1250. She serves as the part time youth & children’s pastor, and I serve as the Senior Pastor!

We have been given a mandate by our board to reach this community and engage young families in our church and community, in an assembly that is aging and desperately needs new life, fresh energy and renewed vision. The Think Orange conference will be a great benefit to us, as a place where we can get new ideas, learn to think creatively, and impact the families of this community that is set to explode with new work opportunities and the possibility of many young families moving back home or moving into town to work in the area’s mining industry.

Pastor Greg Patey
Senior Pastor

Congratulations Greg and Crystal…can’t wait to meet in person. I’ll be in touch soon.

Take Your Boss to Orange 2012

September 23, 2011 in Uncategorized with 10 Comments

Are you struggling getting your head pastor to buy into your dreams for family ministry?

Last year I gave away two tickets to the Orange Conference. You can read about that HERE. I loved it!

And I got to meet a couple of great guys, Steve and Chris who have been working hard at improving their family ministry programs at their church in Kansas. You can read their letter HERE.

In fact…I loved it so much that we’re doing it again.

What do you say? You in?

Here’s the official prize.

2 Registrations to the Orange Conference (one must be for your head pastor)
a 2 hour consulting lunch during Orange to talk systems and volunteer recruitment with me. (I’m buying)
2 copies of Think Orange for you and your Head Pastor.

Here’s how you get it. Continue Reading…

Ministry Impossible

September 22, 2011 in Management and Leadership with 4 Comments

A co-worker came to me the other day and said… “You’ve got to watch Restaurant Impossible!”

He then said…”You would love it! They basically take an overwhelmed and under performing restaurant and apply some of your systems…and the make it work again! And all in 60 minutes!”

So I watched it…and I loved it. So I watched a few more episodes.

A theme is really starting to emerge.

On the front end…when the restaurant isn’t running well and on the brink of going out of business.

There is usually a proud man in charge…with proud man disease.
They have a huge menu that is complicated and almost impossible to pull off.
They have no idea what their top sellers are or where the are making or losing money. They don’t measure and they don’t have systems in place for the daily normal stuff that goes down.
There is tension and backstabbing going on amongst the leadership and staff.

During the show, Robert takes them through pretty much the same processes.

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