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Five Ways to Increase Your Leadership Capacity

Capacity—it's how much you can handle and how much you can produce. When you have your first child, you think you're maxed out. All the diapers and crying are more than you can handle. But then you have a second and a third child—and you realize you're getting better and better at the things that...

Developing a Culture of Leadership

Join Terry & Judith Crist, Lead Pastors of Hillsong Phoenix, as they discuss the principles and practises to intentionally create a culture within your staff and volunteers of personal initiative and extreme ownership. Special thanks to our partner, Hillsong Leadership Network, for providing this c...

Staff Development

Developing Staff: Bring In. Build Up. Train. Send Out.

The purpose for our staff here at Life.Church is to bring in, build up, train, and then send out. We recognize that great staff aren't found but developed in the right environments. That's why we create those environments and bring people in. While they are with us, we build our staff up and train t...

Developing Stage Communication Skills

Each time you go on stage you have a valuable opportunity to communicate with your audience. In this training, learn some valuable tips for developing your stage communication skills. Through constructive feedback and plenty of practice time, you'll begin to see yourself growing as a communicator....

Church Planting

Church Planting: Develop Ministry Systems

A healthy church involves a lot of moving parts. Having developed ministry systems helps clarify what people should expect when they come to visit and how they can get more involved. The following videos will help you think through systems for things like visitor follow-up, recruiting volunteers, an...

Message Support: Developing New Speakers with Team Teaching

Several times a year, Life.Church campus pastors and other staff 'team teach' with Pastor Craig. Team teaching allows you to take the baton from Pastor Craig during a series and create your own portion of the message. It's a great opportunity to flex your teaching muscles or empower a new speaker to...

Staff Development

Great Staff Are Developed and Stewarded Well

As God provides us the resources we need, it's our job to steward those resources well. So what's our greatest resource? Our staff. We know that great staff aren't found—they're developed. What does it look like for you to steward and develop your staff well so they will always be ready for whatev...

The 80/20 Rule: Developing the Best Volunteers

Every church loves to have Godly, committed volunteers sprinkled through its lobby or kids ministry...but finding and retaining these volunteers can be tough. The 80/20 is a guideline we use here at Life.Church to help us find and keep excellent volunteers. It's simple: spend 80% of your time and en...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: The Developer's Dark Side

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! As a leader, your most valuable resource is always the people in your organization. We don’t bet on strategies. We don’t bet on products. We don’t bet on ideas. We bet on people. After all, they are the ones who create the strategies, pro...

How to Have a Strong Developmental Conversation

At some point in your leadership, you’ll encounter a staff member or volunteer who isn’t cutting it. And if you’re a part of any growing organization, your organization is eventually going to outgrow someone on your team. The hard part, especially for those of us who are spiritual leaders, is that...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How to Develop Leaders

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast! Last month, we talked about four dark sides developers can tend toward that keep them from leading effectively. Today, we’re going to talk about developing leaders. Developing people doesn’t happen accidentally. Developing leaders mu...

Online Ministry

Church Online: Church of the Highlands

Hear Pastor David Russell from Church of the Highlands share how their ministry has leveraged church online to reach new people. He shares their approach to online ministry and how other churches can embrace this season as an opportunity to leverage new technology to share the Gospel....

When is a Leader Ready for Stage Communication?

How do you know when a developing communicator is ready to go on stage? Life.Church Campus Pastor Tim Knox chats with us about the process of identifying developing communicators. Get practical tips of what stage communication should include and how you can let your church staff practice in practica...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Giving and Receiving Feedback, Part 1

Without a doubt, one of the most important tools to develop in your organization is a consistent culture of feedback. Many of us want to know when we are doing something right, but we might also fear or avoid hearing feedback when we’re not. What’s interesting is that most people don’t know how t...

Leading in the Right Role

Before you step up to speak, before you have a developmental conversation, and before you cast vision, there’s one thing you have to do first. You need to clearly define the purpose. There are three important things to consider to define your purpose: • What you want people to know. Too oft...

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