Staff Trip – Part 1

One of my favorite parts of my job is planning and leading our staff trips. We just got back from two days in the Smokey Mountains.  We piled into a beautiful cabin and tucked ourselves away for some time to laugh, learn and grow together. Some of my favorite moments this year were: Campfire confession […]

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Believe, Encourage, Share, Trust

Believe in them Encourage them Share with them Trust them This is a John C. Maxwell acronym that I picked up somewhere along the way.  I wrote this down a couple of years ago but I’m embarrassed to say that I don’t feel like I’ve gotten much better at it.  I think I tend to […]

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Create a Crisis – Part 1

I get a lot of questions about what we do for staff leadership and development at Cross Point, so I thought I would start sharing more of the behind-the-scenes details of how we lead and manage. A couple of years ago I read Silos, Politics & Turf Wars by Patrick Lencioni and quickly adopted his […]

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Drive Conference – Day 2

Some quotes from today to get you thinking… Session 2: Becoming a Great Staff – Andy Stanley “The further up the organizational ladder you climb, the more you must serve.” “Great leaders don’t set their sites on leaders they want to emulate, they set their sites on serving people.” “If you have to require loyalty, […]

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