Resources

This page of resources is designed to provide busy ministry leaders with brief tip sheets on a variety of leadership topics. You can quickly search for a resource related to your current issue simply by sorting the categories or by clicking on any specific tag or category. Happy searching, clicking, downloading, and reading!

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Doing Step One of the GIA HR Planning Process

Provides more details on the GIA HR Planning Process. Steps to start with and view as you consider asking GIA to assist you.

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Sleep Better Tonight

Top ten basic tips and strategies to improve the quality and quantity of your sleep. Good and sufficient sleep provides the energy for service to the Lord and others.

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Growing your Understanding and Use of Strengths

Suggestions for those who have participated in GIA’s initial Strengths interactive presentation

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Talking about Strengths as a Team

Watch this video for ideas about keeping the Strengths culture alive and strong for your team

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What Strengths Are and Aren’t

Watch this video for an overview of CliftonStrengths is all about

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How to use Strengths in Ministry

Watch this video for an overview of how to work from your Strengths in ministry

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Building a Strengths Culture

Define how the Strengths of each person shape the culture of your team

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You Can Count on Me

Create a statement about what your Strengths bring to the team

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Key Takeaways from 4000 Weeks-Time Management for Mortals

Dr. Todd Russ identified these key takeaways from the book, 4000 Weeks – Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkman.
He shared these takeaways along with many other insights in a CrossTrain Webinar held in January 2024.

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Ways to Build Time for Reading into your Day

Great tips on ways to build time for reading into your day. Steps to help you build a “reading for leading” habit!

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5 Ways to Enhance Your HR Practices

A great tool for organizing and streamlining your HR processes.

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Reflection: A Powerful Tool

Five ways to practice REFLECTION for leadership growth!

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Casebook — GIA — Move Ministry Forward

Casebook for GIA’s Move Ministry Forward Campaign. Read how you can help!

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FAQ–Move Ministry Forward

All you need to know about GIA’s Move Ministry Forward Campaign.

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Leveraging Team Strengths

Key insights on how to best leverage your team CliftonStrengths. Implement these for team growth!

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How to Increase Margin

Creating and increasing margin in your life is an ongoing project. Here are some key steps to help you increase margin in your life!

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Strengthening Your Board Checklist

Use this checklist to do a quick assessment of the focus of your Board’s governance.

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7 Benefits of Positive Conflict

Stresses the top benefits of a team engaging in positive conflict on the issues.

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EOS IDS Tool

A tool from the Entrepreneurial Operating System for teams to use to identify, discuss, and solve issues.

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Ministry Core Values

Here are key considerations as a ministry establishes its core values.

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The Seven Benefits of Coaching — Walking Together

These are seven key benefits of being coached and learning and growing as you walk together.

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Start Your Keystone Habit Today!

Keystone habits initiate a chain reaction of positive changes , leading to significant and lasting improvements in various areas of our lives. Learn more about Keystone Habits with this resource.

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20 Questions to Consider When Doing Strategic Human Resource Planning

Great questions to review with your leadership team as you plan strategically for meeting your human resource needs.

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Relationships and the Four-R Leadership Model

Healthy relationships are a vital component of being a Christian leader. Here are four key aspects of relationships to pursue and nurture.

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Benefits of a Not-To-Do (NTD) List

See and understand the benefits of a Not-To-Do list! A Not-To-Do (NTD) list is a list of items that you intentionally choose NOT to do. As you create the list, you work hard to make conscious choices of specific tasks that come off your to-do list and thereby free up time for even better projects and people in your life.

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Understanding The Results of Cross-Cultural Interactions

This is a tool to use to determine if The Results of Cross-Cultural Interactions are good or are in need of improvement.

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Meeting Norms for Meaningful Meetings

Sample meeting norms for you to consider for use with your team to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your meetings.

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Approaching Differences Card

A diagram of the approaching cultural differences process (c) 2011 Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship/USA. This is the basis of Chuqee Fletcher’s 4-part newsletter series March – June of 2023.

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The Response to Dissonance in Cross-Cultural Living

As we approach other cultures, we often experience the inevitable dissonance. We then need to …

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Newsletter from May 2, 2023 Using the IVA

GIA Newsletter from May 2, 2023. Using the IVA to escape an emotional roller coaster.

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Where to Look When . . .

A tool for quickly finding a portion of Scripture to help you ALIGN you emotions with God’s Word and truths. Answers where to go in Scripture when . . . .

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Newsletter from April 18, 2023 — The Inevitables

Newsletter April 28, 2023 — The Inevitables of Cross-Cultural Ministry

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The Inevitables of Cross-Cultural Living

A summary of potential dissonance that occurs when we approach cultural differences. Use these summaries to plan our response and hoped-for result.

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10 Common CliftonStrengths Partner Up Examples

Specific ways to partner up with other people and their strengths.

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Keys to a Successful Multi-Cultural Approach

A practical guide for your approach and your Personal Entry Posture to any cross-cultural experiences that you may encounter in your ministry or personal life.

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IDS Issue Solving Form

A form to help with the Identification — Discuss — Solve process. Useable by any team that wants to improve their problem solving by making sure they are discussing the right issue.

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Keys to Cascading Messaging

A tool for clearly communicating information from meetings to key audiences. Part of the Level 10 meeting process

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Balconies and Basements

A Gallup organization tool that gives a brief description of each of the CliftonStrengths along with an explanation of the balcony/positive side of each strength and the basement/negative side of each strength.

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5 Keys for Successful Ministry Transition

Whether you move to a new location or transition to a new role in your current ministry, the challenge is real. Things to keep in mind when transitions occur.

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New School Team Members

Areas on which to focus and ways to help ministry team members who are new to your school

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SMART-ER Goals

Goal setting by making your goals Specific, Meaningful, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound — and then taking time to Evaluate and Refine.

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Thankfulness brings Blessings

The blessings God gives us through a thankful attitude and actions. Helping us be thankful for all God’s blessings!

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GIA Board A Quick History

A quick history of the Grace in Action Board. An example of God’s blessings on a Board that while a bit unclear on its direction, continued to serve the Lord with passion and commitment.

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Leadership Support Analysis Tool

Boards strive to provide stong leadership support. This tool helps a board evaluate its leadership support. It helps answer the question — are we doing all we can to support our ministry leaders?

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5 Ways to Deepen CliftonStrengths

Consider taking these additional steps with CliftonStrengths as you strive to enhance your team culture.

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Top 10 Take-Aways from GIA

A complete list with descriptions of areas in which GIA may be able to assist your ministry.

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7 Characteristics of Ownership

Key areas to consider as you work to “own it” as a leader. Could be used as a self-check of your “ownership” level.

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Considerations for Conflict Correction

A plan of action for conflict that has become personal, rather than focused on ideas and issues. The resource identifies a process to help with conflict resolution.

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10 Tips from “Eat Move Sleep”

The book Eat Move Sleep is a great resource for improving our physical resiliency. Here are 10 key tips from the pages of this book. Implementing these tips can be a great start to building your personal resilience.

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7 Tips to Grow Church & School Cultural Awareness

The resource provides great first steps to growing cultural awareness in your church and school. Grab this resource and get started today.

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5 Ideas to Make Your Church Visitor Friendly

This resource provides 5 great ideas for helping your church be visitor friendly. It helps you focus on five key areas that will help worship visitors have a great experience and want to come back.

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5 Ideas for Productive Meetings

Meetings can be frustrated by lack of preparation, meandering conversations, lack of accountability, and much more. Here is a selection of some top ways to have efficient and productive meetings.

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GROW Decision Making Process

This is a tool for making a decision by working through GROW — Goal, Realities, Options, and Way Forward. It helps your team make quicker and more accurate decisions.

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7 Steps for Setting Team Direction

This document shares seven areas on which to focus when setting direction in Ministry. Areas include Core Values, Core Focus, and Vision/Targets.

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5 Ministry Team Essentials

A list of 5 Team Essentials ranging from Trust to Attention to Results. Provides a summary of each essential

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Summer S.T.A.R.T.

How to begin your journey to great spiritual, emotional, and physical health by using the technique of Schedule The Action Required Today. Get started now!

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9 Ways to Nurture Engagement with your Team

Nine tips to nurture better engagement on your ministry team.

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Effectively Communicating to Others’ Strengths

This resource explains how best to engage and communicate with others who possess different Strengths than you do.

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Key Partner-Up Opportunities for Every Strength

This document shares the key partner-up opportunities for every strength. REaders can find out with whom they should be partnering up. Developed by Scott Gostchock and Peter Wolfgramm.

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