Your web strategy involves more than launching a web site (71): Chapter 71 goes over the advantages of the internet and how you can use it to your advantage.
Teach others what you are learning (72): Chapter 72 talks about the importance of being a teaching church. Even when you are a smaller church-there are always other churches that can benefit from your expertise!
Handle tough situations head-on (73): Chapter 73 goes over a "continuum of care" following 6 steps. 1) Coaching session. 2) Performance review 3) written reprimand 4) formal warning 5) Time off 6) Termination
Partner for the long term (74): When planning for the future-make sure you are able to build long lasting relationships. Follow these steps. 1) you won't need to re-educate your partners each time. 2) you save time. 3) you have opportunities for life-changing ministry 4) the quality of the craftsmanship and service is improved 5) the blame game is minimized
Teach the tithe regularly (75): Tell your people not to give! Bringing a gift to God is apart of your worship. Also have people give personal testimony. You are bound to get better results when you have "regular" people talk about their personal experiences.
Throw a party for the smallest success (76): Get excited about the small things! Give silly gifts, give a sermon, group recognition!
Affinity and diversity can walk hand in hand (77): Chapter 77 talks about diversity and affinity within your ministry team. Diversity helps strengthen your your team and affinity creates a bond that is not easily broken.
Send lots of handwritten notes (78): Chapter 78 talks about the power of words of appreciation. Writing post cards to people each week can have an incredible impact on people. Make it a habit
Reward the person who stops a dead program (79): Reward the people who stop the programs that do not line up with your churches vision or mission. By doing this you are able to focus your energy in other areas that are apart of your vision and mission.
Don't let your board decide how many pencils to purchase (80): Just because your church board has an opinion doesn't mean you have to use and it doesn't mean that they will be upset if you don't ask for their opinion. Remember: the people are the ministers the staff are the ADministers.
Chapter 72 talks about teaching other people what you learn. I saw my Dad implement this into his church when he chose to send some of his staff to different conferences to help them get ideas going for the things they wanted to do in our church that followed the churches vision and mission. While they were not able to do all of the things they wanted to to full scale-they were able to take some of the ideas and put their own spin on it to work with what they need. It worked out great and one of the results was a new children's center complete with a computerized check in/out desk!
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