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Staying On Target – Part 2

August 25, 2011 in Management and Leadership with 1 Comment

Whatever you do…don’t continue reading until you have read Part 1 – Click HERE.

So, I hope that exercise brought some clarity. If you haven’t done it, I really wish you would stop reading and take some time to do it. There are few things more helpful than knowing this information and knowing it is what you truly believe.

As for me, this information drives my daily decisions. This is what helps me STAY ON TARGET.

The Three Most Redemptive (Therefore Effective) Things I Can Do For Middle Schoolers.

1. Find great people and give them a healthy culture in which to grow and connect with students.

Staying on Target

August 24, 2011 in Management and Leadership with 2 Comments

I spent 10 years in schools…and now 6 in church world.

I believe that both churches and schools suffer from the same disease.

The basic symptoms of this disease start with a sincere desire to do what’s best for the people you serve and ends in a slow frustrating death.

At the center of this disease is this…

When you’re trying to serve kids…when you’re trying to do what’s best… there are simply too many good ideas. All of them can be rationalized into a great idea that we “HAVE” to do!

For example, in schools…

Casting Vision

August 18, 2011 in Vision and Leadership with 2 Comments

Yesterday we had “Camp Packing Day” for Boot Camp.

Boot Camp is our camp for 6th graders. We do it over 2 weekends. It’s a pretty big deal. We have over 700 6th graders involved and well over 200 volunteers to coordinate.

So…packing day is where we take care of all of the little details.

We label t-shirts, put them in backs, create leader bags with guides, pencils, activities, gifts, first aid kits…etc…etc….etc.

The net of it all is that we fill 8 hours with manual labor. It’s simply stuff that needs done.

16 golf pencils in this zip lock…add 16 cards…2 shapies…and a partridge in a pear tree.

Long story short…as we broke for lunch, Justin Grunewald, our Buckhead Middle School Director was in charge of lunch…and so he was also in charge of praying.

But…before he started…he said something like this.

Free Staff Meeting

August 11, 2011 in Vision and Leadership with 3 Comments

So… I’m about to share something with you I probably never should.

That being said… if you want to do it, too… feel free to claim it… use it… don’t feel the need to give me credit for it!

I was in a tough place. I was leading a team that was having trouble living in reality. So many people were so mad at each other that no one was dealing with their part in the mess. We were in a vicious cycle… non-stop loop of the “Blame Game.”

So… this is what I did.

I’m not saying this was a good idea.

I’m not saying this is even ethical.

I’m definitely not saying this is Biblical.

But… this is what I did.