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Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: How Effective Leaders Handle Criticism, Part 2
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In our last episode, we talked about how to minimize criticism. In this episode, let’s dive in to understanding our critics. All critics are not created equal. Some criticize just to point out problems— some point o...
Leadership
The Right Questions
In the church world, you will almost always get feedback. But not all feedback is equal. Finding the right feedback is vitally important. A key to finding the right feedback is asking the right questions. Here are a few questions that won’t be very effective: ● What did you think o...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Sharpening Your Communication Skills, Part 2
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! In part one of "Sharpening Your Communication Skills," we talked about a few ways to become a better communicator. Today, let’s talk about the hats you wear as a communicator. For me, I might be a dad, or a husband, and a pastor. Som...
Youth
How to Talk with Teens about Suicide
Teens deal with serious, real-life issues in their day-to-day lives, which is why we aren’t afraid to tackle heavy topics at Switch, our youth ministry at Life.Church. Suicide can be a tough topic to address, but starting the conversation with students might help alleviate some of the stigma and...
Leadership
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...
Leadership
Is Anyone Listening?
With social media, many people express what’s going on inside their hearts with the same level of transparency as sharing what they had for lunch. “Out too late partying last night = overslept my alarm this morning. Guess I’ll be having ‘car trouble’ again.” “Yay, lunch! It’s burger & fries day!!...
Leadership
5 Days of Leadership with Pastor Craig | Day 3: Give and Receive Feedback
Day 3: Give and receive feedback. As leaders, we have the responsibility to ask for and give feedback in a life-giving way. Why? Without honest and timely feedback your personal and organizational growth is always limited. Feedback is one of the most important tools for personal growth, but how d...
Communications
Lead with Vision: Tips for Stage Communication
At Life.Church, Pastor Craig teaches the message every week via video to our campuses. But every campus has a campus pastor who is responsible for boots-on-the-ground pastoring to the people in that community. They take to the stage every week for what we call "stage time"—it's an opportunity to sh...
Worship
Three Questions for Worship Pastors
At first glance, it seems like a Worship Pastor's main priority is to sing. While singing is the medium, pastoring is the goal. Worship Pastors are responsible for one of the most real, vulnerable, spiritual parts of a church experience—when we tell God how wonderful He is and let him minister to...
General
A Year at a Glance
When you work as part of a team, everyone has different things they're focused on and contributing to, and it's important to stay organized. Many of our teams use a program called...
Messages
Message Support: The Good Work
Join Life.Church Campus Pastor Erin Crain as she helps us unpack The Good Work and how to use it in our churches. For more on holding your own Chazown event, visit the Chazown resource page . Each one of us has a good work to do. We may not see it yet, but it’s often right there in front of...
Service & Events
The Team Behind the Scenes of an Experience
It takes a lot to execute services each weekend at our campuses. But no matter the size of your church, you will need a mix of skilled technical people and teachable volunteers to run your experience. We have a few skilled contractors on the weekend: a front-of-house (FOH) engineer and light...
Multi-site
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...
Leadership
Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast: Strengthening a Struggling Team
Thank you for joining the Craig Groeschel Leadership Podcast ! There’s nothing like being on an amazing, focused and passionate team. There’s no limit to what can be accomplished when it doesn’t matter who gets the credit. Unfortunately, it’s way more common to be on a Struggling Team. A stru...
Leadership
5 Ways the Best Leaders Think Master Class
5 WAYS THE BEST LEADERS THINK: MASTER CLASS WORKBOOK YOU’RE A PASTOR. YOUR MIND MATTERS. Find the five master class teaching videos from Craig Groeschel on YouTube . To walk through this workbook with your team, download the PDF ....