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Hillsong Training: Crucial Leadership Conversations

Join Ari Mason, Human Resources guru at Hillsong Church, as she reveals principles and practices for dealing with the most crucial conversations that leaders will have with their teams, congregation, and even their own bosses. This training was part of Hillsong Leader...

Hillsong Training: Training That Sticks

Join Daniela Duarte, Hillsong Human Resources wonder woman, on this Online Open Week webinar as she reveals simple and practical ways to ensure that your leadership and volunteer training hits the mark and is consistently followed. Do you feel like your team training goes in one ear and...

Facebook Live: Creating a Strong Culture

A strong church culture helps your staff feel closer to your mission, become better leaders, and reach more people for Christ. But how do you create a strong culture, and how do you keep it healthy? Jerry Hurley, Life.Church Directional Team Leader, shares from almost 20 years of experience how he...

Four Tips for Following Through on Goals

At Life.Church, we’re not just big on goals. We’re big on accomplishing goals. Here are a few tips to not only help you get started but to help you follow through: Review throughout the year. Consistently tracking your progress goes a long way toward keeping your goal off the backbur...

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 th...

Staff Development

Leadership XP: The Full Time Internship

What we've learned: Here at Life.Church, we have a summer intern academy that usually lasts about three months, but our primary intern placement is for three to seven months. This longer internship program allows us to really invest in, train up, and send out young leaders who can potenti...

New Campuses and the 'Core Four'

When we launch a new campus, staff is one of the primary needs. To get a new campus going in the most efficient way possible, we start with a staff of four. We love people who can multi-task...

Staff Development

The Best Fit: How We Hire

Our thorough recruitment process is intentionally designed to help prevent the people we hire from later being fired. When employees not only work for your organization, but they also worship at your church, it's important to...

Staff Development

Leadership XP: Engaging Young Volunteers

What we've learned: Here at Life.Church, our internship program allows young adults to serve in the church and gain experience in ministry. But we don't like to wait until a young person is college age before they're allowed to serve. We've found that if middle and high school students ar...

Staff Development

Leadership XP: Laying the Groundwork for an Internship Program

Before we created Leadership XP, our internship program here at Life.Church, we needed to lay the appropriate groundwork with our staff. First, we established the goal of the program and made sure everyone was on the same page. If your goal is to grow leaders, make sure everyone knows that....

Staff Development

Leadership XP: The Leaders of Today

What we've learned: Leadership XP, our internship program, keeps young people engaged in ministry today . We love empowering young people to lead and serve right where they are; they don't have to "grow up" to be meaningful in the church. Sometimes your most enthusiastic supporters are y...

Letting Go of the Know

When you are in the beginning stages of empowering or developing a leader, you probably want to know a lot and control a lot. You are building trust. Once a leader is trained and functioning well, it’s time to “let go of the know.” Here's an example: Sam Roberts oversees all of our Life.Chur...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Principles of Higher Hiring, Part 2

Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! You can have the best product, the best strategy, and the best vision, but without the best people, your organization will always be limited! In last month's episode , we talked about two principles of making great hires. Today, we'll...

Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: The Art of Energy Management

Leadership is the art of harnessing human energy to create change, to make a difference, and to get results. In this episode, Craig Groeschel will show you how to master energy management by auditing your energy and creating an energy budget. Every month, Craig Groeschel delivers a new podcast abo...

Working Lean: When a Small Staff Is Better

At first, it just doesn't make sense – but it's true. A small staff is often better than a large one. Here at Life.Church, we've found that when a team or campus is slightly overstaffed, progress generally slows down. And when that same team or campus is slightly understaffed, we usually tak...