Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Team Purpose


 

Right now I’m taking a class about building an effective ministry team.  The following are some good thoughts from today’s lecture:

 “A long-time seminary president was asked what he considered the greatest challenge in team-building for churches and church ministry teams. His response - most teams are ineffective because they lack a common purpose.

 Too many team leaders are complacent about a foggy, uninspiring, ill-defined purpose. They wrongly assume that because the purpose is clear and important to them, it must appear that way to their team members as well.

 ‘Alignment is the link between the individual team member's goals and the team purpose. Individual team members agree that the task of the team is important. It is important because it lines up with their individual goals and interests. They want the team to succeed because if it succeeds, they succeed. When a team is in alignment every member is highly committed to the team purpose. They are in the same boat, heading in the same direction, pulling together.’

Pat MacMillan’s The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork”

 

What is your ministry team’s purpose?

3 comments:

Thodgson said...

good stuffs

Rick Lawrenson said...

Your church gets too carried away with this "purpose" stuff. Why can't we just do church? Why does everything have to have "purpose"?

marcia said...

Hmmmm....Rick, maybe you should ask Rick Warren about that if you happen to bump into him the next time you are in CA! :)

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