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Re: 90 Second Leadership – Pipeline Transitions

toddmckeever — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 08:16:53 -0000

I enjoy and am very thankful for all of your work and training with the leadership pipeline.

As the XP at my church and the one with the task of developing the pipeline at my church, my Pastor and I are struggling with the difference of developing "Leaders" vs "Disciples". They are not the same. You can develop a great leader and they could be a terrible disciple, or, develop a great disciple and they are a terrible leader.

Any insight or input you may have to help us with this would be appreciated. Then how do you measure discipleship? It has to be more than seeing physical signs of jumping through certain hoops, because you may end up with a Judas in discipleship, who looked one way but was another.

Help!!

Re: Identifying First-Time Guests

toddmckeever — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 12:15:48 -0000

I guess I was hoping there was a better more efficient way to find out. We just started using Planning Center and I will need to find out how to see each week when someone is there for the second time. I didn't know that CCB would alert you to that. We don't get good responses of 2nd time visitors filling out a card saying their 2nd time. We even tried to let them know that for every card returned we donated an amount to a non profit ministry that would be attractive around our community.

Thanks for the response

Re: Identifying First-Time Guests

toddmckeever — Wed, 13 Sep 2017 02:24:35 -0000

In your follow up first time link for the flow chart may I ask how do you know if they are returning visitors or not?

Re: Interpreting your VOP-S Scores

toddmckeever — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 11:13:41 -0000

Thanks so much for the video and the two great books. I have confusion on 2 items. I am a dominant V with a secondary S and only traces with the O,P.

My first question is: How does the S work with the Dominant V? Does it mean I can or have learned to do the others but need to stay out of the O,P areas? Im an executive pastor so trying to figure out how to use this info to keep me in my strengths as much as possible.

Second question is: Do we need to have all 3 (V,O,P) roles on our executive team? If my secondary is S can I make up for them through the learned skills and behaviors I have developed over time?

Thanks again for all your work. It has truly been a great tool for myself and many others as we have taken them through it.

Re: 5 Basic Mistakes Churches Make Over and Over Again

toddmckeever — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 11:45:30 -0000

I enjoyed #1 and #4. Then as an XP I can't wait for the day when #5 discussions are no longer seen as lesser type of discussions. Thanks for the post it was a great one.

Re: The Executive Pastor Is A “Coach”

toddmckeever — Thu, 02 Feb 2017 08:18:39 -0000

The XP compared to the role of a coach, you are spot on.

Re: The New Executive Pastor – Organizational Structure

toddmckeever — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 07:02:40 -0000

Kevin, thanks for the follow up comment and pointing me to specific links to aid me in this new adventure.

Re: The New Executive Pastor – Organizational Structure

toddmckeever — Fri, 30 Dec 2016 06:41:36 -0000

I am going to make this move in February as the XP, (even though we are calling it Family and Ministry Operations Pastor). I feel completely nervous due to this will be a completely different role than I have ever held over the last 25 years. Plus, my Pastor (who is a preacher/visionary type leader) has never had an XP either. I have been everything from church planter, childrens pastor, youth pastor and most recently Family pastor with over site of birth-High school and marriage/parenting. Usually I have been in churches 1000+ with my last church being 6000+ and now my current church for the past 2.5 years is only 400 (I thought that was a large enough learning curve), but now I am nervous due to this new role.

Your blog has been one of the best resources for me and you can not post often enough as I am ready to consume anything you put out. Thanks.

Saying all of that, we are just starting to try planning this transition period. Neither myself or my lead pastor have an idea how to accomplish this with the least amount of pain or confusion potentially coming from the congregation. I will keep you updated.

Please keep the posting coming.

Re: 15 Great Apps for Ministry Leaders

toddmckeever — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 05:45:11 -0000

What did you think about Unroll.me? Did you get to check it out yet?

Re: 15 Great Apps for Ministry Leaders

toddmckeever — Tue, 22 Nov 2016 12:46:19 -0000

Nice post and gave me a new app - "Expensify".

Some others that I use would be Dropbox, Unroll.Me (helps control junk mail and newsletters etc from my inbox), #slack (Im still experimenting with this one with groups of people), Lynda (video training on variety of topics) and lastly 1Password.

Re: 30 Apps We Use to Lead Family Ministry

toddmckeever — Sat, 27 Aug 2016 05:49:32 -0000

I am really starting to get into #slack. We are using it more and more in my own church ministry and moving away from email for category/event type discussions. Plus, using it with groups from other churches as well for collective topical type discussions over technology, leadership, family ministry etc..

Re: How a Volunteer Leadership Pipeline Can Grow Your Team & Church

toddmckeever — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 16:35:31 -0000

what training do you do for competencies on each level? What are the competencies you are looking for on each level?

Re: A Simple Social Media Strategy for Your Ministry

toddmckeever — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 14:09:03 -0000

great topic. Thnx

Re: Reminiscing about Orange Conference before it starts

toddmckeever — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:12:15 -0000

Would you ever be open to talking family ministry sometime as this is a new role for myself as well over the last year. Looking to network with others.

Re: Episode #67: Intro to Leadership Pipeline

toddmckeever — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 16:40:18 -0000

This was one of the best Podcast I have heard in a long time. It left me anxiously awaiting the rest of the week so you will continue unfolding all of this.

Re: What Should a Family Pastor Do?

toddmckeever — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:36:06 -0000

Love this post, keep these kind a coming. That is my personal request. Would love to hear more on the monitoring the transitions and milestones. What are you hearing is being successful? Tools being used? Systems and processes developed?

Re: Set Your Life on a New Trajectory

toddmckeever — Mon, 08 Feb 2016 22:00:10 -0000

Michael, I already pre-purchased your bundle and even entered my amazon code into your site but have never received a confirmation email. Should I expect one back saying I am set to get the whole bundle when it is available? Thanks for all that you do.

Re: The 6 Things We Value In Our Family Ministry Coaches

toddmckeever — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:25:15 -0000

Thanks Nick for sharing your values for coaches.

Re: Our Plan For Developing Leaders of Leaders in Family Ministry

toddmckeever — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 07:59:26 -0000

Not yet, I'm sure he is busy though.

Re: Our Plan For Developing Leaders of Leaders in Family Ministry

toddmckeever — Sat, 23 Jan 2016 07:08:32 -0000

Thanks and Im glad that I could be the one who asked you first about your values :~)

May I ask, what is the brief description of each of your roles and commitments of each? How do they move from one level to the next?

Thanks for such an informative blog and thanks for doing our StratOp for our church. I would recommend every church go through a StratOp and if you want someone who definitely knows his stuff I would recommend Nick as the guy to bring in!

Re: Our Plan For Developing Leaders of Leaders in Family Ministry

toddmckeever — Fri, 22 Jan 2016 13:23:59 -0000

Interested in hearing if you would share your different levels in your leadership pipeline from entering your ministry to the most committed role and the definitions that go with each. Lastly what are the 6 core coaching values you settled on?

Re: Family / NextGen Ministry Survey 2016

toddmckeever — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 17:23:49 -0000

Will you share the results of your survey? If so, when?

Re: 2 Free Tools To Help You Strategically Plan

toddmckeever — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 07:13:20 -0000

Anyone who would truly like to get a better and more clear picture of where they are as a ministry, I would highly recommend this process. We had Nick come out to our church and do a StarpOp, and for the 3 days he spent with us, not only was it fun but it uncovered a ton of potential, encouraging, challenged us and also showed us a ton that we were already doing right.

Nick is one who knew his stuff and had some great insight to guide us through the whole StratOp process. The whole experience was incredibly enjoyable and we are looking forward to his return follow up visit with us in a few weeks.

Re: 3 Keys to Maintaining & Improving a #LeadSmall Culture in Family Ministry

toddmckeever — Wed, 16 Dec 2015 18:40:19 -0000

Would love to hear what your training method is? The steps? When does each level go through them? How do you have them go through it? In person or online etc?

Re: 4 Questions to Help You #LeadSmall in Family Ministry

toddmckeever — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:11:06 -0000

I agree and love the idea of asking for regular weekly commitment. Do you feel this can be the same for those who only have 1 service? Do you ask for the same commitment? Do you just shorten the commitment to be every week for 6 months instead of lets say a year? Thoughts?