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. | Clear Direction, Healthy Individuals, Unified Teams | Board, Change, Goal-Setting, Governance, Human Resources, New team members, Planning, Staffing | March 8, 2024 | clear-direction healthy-individuals unified-teams | board change goal-setting governance human-resources new-team-members planning staffing | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals | Emotional health, Emotional resilience, Leadership characteristics, Physical Resiliency, Resilience, Resiliency Plan, Wellness | February 28, 2024 | healthy-individuals | emotional-health emotional-resilience leadership-characteristics physical-resiliency resilience resiliency-plan wellness | ||
Growing your Understanding and Use of Strengths | Suggestions for those who have participated in GIA’s initial Strengths interactive presentation | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Partnering-up, Staffing, Strengths, Teams | February 15, 2024 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | cliftonstrengths partnering-up staffing strengths teams | ||
Talking about Strengths as a Team | Watch this video for ideas about keeping the Strengths culture alive and strong for your team | Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Strengths | www | February 8, 2024 | unified-teams | cliftonstrengths strengths | |
What Strengths Are and Aren’t | Watch this video for an overview of CliftonStrengths is all about | Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Strengths | www | February 8, 2024 | unified-teams | cliftonstrengths strengths | |
How to use Strengths in Ministry | Watch this video for an overview of how to work from your Strengths in ministry | Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Strengths | www | February 8, 2024 | unified-teams | cliftonstrengths strengths | |
Building a Strengths Culture | Define how the Strengths of each person shape the culture of your team | Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Strengths, Teams | February 8, 2024 | unified-teams | cliftonstrengths strengths teams | ||
You Can Count on Me | Create a statement about what your Strengths bring to the team | Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Onboarding, Strengths, Teams | February 8, 2024 | unified-teams | cliftonstrengths onboarding strengths teams | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Decision-Making, Efficient, Leadership characteristics, Life rhythm, time management, Wellness | February 5, 2024 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | decision-making efficient leadership-characteristics life-rhythm time-management wellness | ||
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! | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Change, Emotional health, Emotional resilience, Goals, Leadership characteristics, Leadership support, Way forward, Wellness | January 3, 2024 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | change emotional-health emotional-resilience goals leadership-characteristics leadership-support way-forward wellness | ||
5 Ways to Enhance Your HR Practices | A great tool for organizing and streamlining your HR processes. | Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | Human Resources, Leadership support, New team members, Onboarding, Staffing, Teams | January 3, 2024 | tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | human-resources leadership-support new-team-members onboarding staffing teams | ||
Reflection: A Powerful Tool | Five ways to practice REFLECTION for leadership growth! | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Emotional health, Goal-Setting, Goals, Leadership characteristics, Resilience, Teams, Vision | December 9, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | emotional-health goal-setting goals leadership-characteristics resilience teams vision | ||
Casebook — GIA — Move Ministry Forward | Casebook for GIA’s Move Ministry Forward Campaign. Read how you can help! | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Emotional resilience, Leadership support, New team members, Onboarding, Physical Resiliency, Spiritual Resilience, Teams, Wellness | November 20, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | emotional-resilience leadership-support new-team-members onboarding physical-resiliency spiritual-resilience teams wellness | ||
FAQ–Move Ministry Forward | All you need to know about GIA’s Move Ministry Forward Campaign. | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Emotional resilience, Goal-Setting, Leadership support, Onboarding, Physical Resiliency, Resiliency Plan, Spiritual Resilience, Teams, Wellness | November 20, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | emotional-resilience goal-setting leadership-support onboarding physical-resiliency resiliency-plan spiritual-resilience teams wellness | ||
Leveraging Team Strengths | Key insights on how to best leverage your team CliftonStrengths. Implement these for team growth! | Healthy Individuals, Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Communication, Culture, Leadership characteristics, New team members, Partnering-up, Strengths, Teams, Trust | November 9, 2023 | healthy-individuals unified-teams | cliftonstrengths communication culture leadership-characteristics new-team-members partnering-up strengths teams trust | ||
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! | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Emotional health, Emotional resilience, Goal-Setting, Leadership characteristics, Physical Resiliency, Resilience, Resiliency Plan, Spiritual Resilience, Wellness | October 28, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | emotional-health emotional-resilience goal-setting leadership-characteristics physical-resiliency resilience resiliency-plan spiritual-resilience wellness | ||
Strengthening Your Board Checklist | Use this checklist to do a quick assessment of the focus of your Board’s governance. | Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | Board, Governance, Partnering-up, Strengthening Your Board, Teams, Trust, Vision | October 12, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | board governance partnering-up strengthening-your-board teams trust vision | ||
7 Benefits of Positive Conflict | Stresses the top benefits of a team engaging in positive conflict on the issues. | Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | Accountability, Communication, Decision-Making, Governance, Healthy conflict, Issues, Level 10, Solutions, Trust | September 28, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | accountability communication decision-making governance healthy-conflict issues level-10 solutions trust | ||
EOS IDS Tool | A tool from the Entrepreneurial Operating System for teams to use to identify, discuss, and solve issues. | Tools to Serve Others | Decision-Making, Efficient, Issues, Level 10, Meetings, Solutions, Solving | September 14, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | decision-making efficient issues level-10 meetings solutions solving | ||
Ministry Core Values | Here are key considerations as a ministry establishes its core values. | Clear Direction, Tools to Serve Others | Accountability, Board, Communication, Core focus, Goal-Setting, Governance, Planning, Vision | August 31, 2023 | clear-direction tools-to-serve-others | accountability board communication core-focus goal-setting governance planning vision | ||
The Seven Benefits of Coaching — Walking Together | These are seven key benefits of being coached and learning and growing as you walk together. | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Accountability, CliftonStrengths, Emotional health, Emotional resilience, Goal-Setting, Physical Resiliency, Resiliency Plan, Spiritual Resilience, Trust, Wellness | August 17, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | accountability cliftonstrengths emotional-health emotional-resilience goal-setting physical-resiliency resiliency-plan spiritual-resilience trust wellness | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Emotional health, Physical Resiliency, Resilience, Resiliency Plan, Spiritual Resilience, Wellness | August 3, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | emotional-health physical-resiliency resilience resiliency-plan spiritual-resilience wellness | ||
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. | Clear Direction, Tools to Serve Others | Human Resources, Planning, Staffing, Strategic Planning | July 14, 2023 | clear-direction tools-to-serve-others | human-resources planning staffing strategic-planning | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others | Emotional health, Leadership characteristics, Relationships | July 1, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others | emotional-health leadership-characteristics relationships | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals, Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | Creativity, Decision-Making, Resilience, Resiliency Plan, time management | June 23, 2023 | healthy-individuals tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | creativity decision-making resilience resiliency-plan time-management | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Competency, Cross-Cultural, Culture, Multi-Cultural | June 8, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | competency cross-cultural culture multi-cultural | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Efficient, Level 10, Meetings, Very Effective | May 25, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | efficient level-10 meetings very-effective | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Communication, Cross-Cultural, Multi-Cultural, Process | png | May 14, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | communication cross-cultural multi-cultural process | |
The Response to Dissonance in Cross-Cultural Living | As we approach other cultures, we often experience the inevitable dissonance. We then need to … | Tools to Serve Others | Communication, Cross-Cultural, Multi-Cultural, Response | May 12, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | communication cross-cultural multi-cultural response | ||
Newsletter from May 2, 2023 Using the IVA | GIA Newsletter from May 2, 2023. Using the IVA to escape an emotional roller coaster. | Newsletters | Emotional resilience, Newsletter, Wellness | May 9, 2023 | newsletters | emotional-resilience newsletter wellness | ||
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 . . . . | Healthy Individuals | Emotional health, Emotional resilience, Resilience, Scripture references, Wellness | April 27, 2023 | healthy-individuals | emotional-health emotional-resilience resilience scripture-references wellness | ||
Newsletter from April 18, 2023 — The Inevitables | Newsletter April 28, 2023 — The Inevitables of Cross-Cultural Ministry | Newsletters | Cross-Cultural, Culture, Inevitables, Multi-Cultural, Newsletter | April 18, 2023 | newsletters | cross-cultural culture inevitables multi-cultural newsletter | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Communication, Cross-Cultural, Multi-Cultural | April 15, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | communication cross-cultural multi-cultural | ||
10 Common CliftonStrengths Partner Up Examples | Specific ways to partner up with other people and their strengths. | Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths | March 31, 2023 | unified-teams | cliftonstrengths | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Communication, Cross-Cultural, Multi-Cultural | March 18, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | communication cross-cultural multi-cultural | ||
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. | Clear Direction, Tools to Serve Others | IDS, Issues, Problems, Solutions, Solving | March 5, 2023 | clear-direction tools-to-serve-others | ids issues problems solutions solving | ||
Keys to Cascading Messaging | A tool for clearly communicating information from meetings to key audiences. Part of the Level 10 meeting process | Clear Direction, Tools to Serve Others | Communication, Level 10 | February 17, 2023 | clear-direction tools-to-serve-others | communication level-10 | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals | Balconies, Basements, CliftonStrengths, Shadow side | February 3, 2023 | healthy-individuals | balconies basements cliftonstrengths shadow-side | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Change, Onboarding, Roles, Transitions | February 2, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | change onboarding roles transitions | ||
New School Team Members | Areas on which to focus and ways to help ministry team members who are new to your school | Tools to Serve Others | Communication, New team members, Onboarding | January 7, 2023 | tools-to-serve-others | communication new-team-members onboarding | ||
SMART-ER Goals | Goal setting by making your goals Specific, Meaningful, Achievable, Relevant, Time-Bound — and then taking time to Evaluate and Refine. | Clear Direction | Focus, Goal-Setting, Goals, SMART | December 21, 2022 | clear-direction | focus goal-setting goals smart | ||
Thankfulness brings Blessings | The blessings God gives us through a thankful attitude and actions. Helping us be thankful for all God’s blessings! | Healthy Individuals, Unified Teams | Attitude, Blessings of God, Gratitude, Thankfulness | December 6, 2022 | healthy-individuals unified-teams | attitude blessings-of-god gratitude thankfulness | ||
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. | Clear Direction, Unified Teams | Board, Direction, Governance, History | November 27, 2022 | clear-direction unified-teams | board direction governance history | ||
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? | Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | Analysis, Board, Leadership support | November 27, 2022 | tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | analysis board leadership-support | ||
5 Ways to Deepen CliftonStrengths | Consider taking these additional steps with CliftonStrengths as you strive to enhance your team culture. | Healthy Individuals, Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Culture, New team members, Partnering-up | November 10, 2022 | healthy-individuals unified-teams | cliftonstrengths culture new-team-members partnering-up | ||
Top 10 Take-Aways from GIA | A complete list with descriptions of areas in which GIA may be able to assist your ministry. | Clear Direction, Healthy Individuals, Newsletters, Tools to Serve Others, Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Cross-Cultural, Generations, Governance, Leadership support, New team members, Planning, Traction, Visitor Friendly, Wellness | October 26, 2022 | clear-direction healthy-individuals newsletters tools-to-serve-others unified-teams | cliftonstrengths cross-cultural generations governance leadership-support new-team-members planning traction visitor-friendly wellness | ||
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. | Clear Direction, Unified Teams | Empowerment, Leadership characteristics, Ownership | October 14, 2022 | clear-direction unified-teams | empowerment leadership-characteristics ownership | ||
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. | Unified Teams | Conflict, Harmony, Peace-making, Problem-solving | October 2, 2022 | unified-teams | conflict harmony peace-making problem-solving | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals | Eat, Move, Physical Resiliency, Resilience, Resiliency Plan, Sleep, Wellness | September 13, 2022 | healthy-individuals | eat move physical-resiliency resilience resiliency-plan sleep wellness | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Cross-Cultural, Culture, IDI, Multi-Cultural | September 1, 2022 | tools-to-serve-others | cross-cultural culture idi multi-cultural | ||
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. | Tools to Serve Others | Visitors, Welcome, Worship | August 16, 2022 | tools-to-serve-others | visitors welcome worship | ||
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. | Clear Direction, Unified Teams | Accountability, Efficient, Meetings, Productive | July 25, 2022 | clear-direction unified-teams | accountability efficient meetings productive | ||
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. | Clear Direction, Unified Teams | Decision-Making, Decisions, Goals, GROW, Options, Reality, Way forward | June 27, 2022 | clear-direction unified-teams | decision-making decisions goals grow options reality way-forward | ||
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. | Clear Direction | Core focus, Goal-Setting, Rocks, Setting direction, Vision, Vision setting | June 10, 2022 | clear-direction | core-focus goal-setting rocks setting-direction vision vision-setting | ||
5 Ministry Team Essentials | A list of 5 Team Essentials ranging from Trust to Attention to Results. Provides a summary of each essential | Unified Teams | Accountability, Attention to Results, Commitment, Healthy conflict, Team essentials, Teams, Trust | May 25, 2022 | unified-teams | accountability attention-to-results commitment healthy-conflict team-essentials teams trust | ||
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! | Healthy Individuals | Plan, Resilience, Resiliency Plan, SE-EMS, Wellness | May 1, 2022 | healthy-individuals | plan resilience resiliency-plan se-ems wellness | ||
9 Ways to Nurture Engagement with your Team | Nine tips to nurture better engagement on your ministry team. | Unified Teams | Active engagement, Engagement, Teams | July 23, 2020 | unified-teams | active-engagement engagement teams | ||
Effectively Communicating to Others’ Strengths | This resource explains how best to engage and communicate with others who possess different Strengths than you do. | Healthy Individuals, Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Communication, Engagement, Gallup, Strengths | March 11, 2020 | healthy-individuals unified-teams | cliftonstrengths communication engagement gallup strengths | ||
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. | Healthy Individuals, Unified Teams | CliftonStrengths, Gostchock, Partnering-up, Strengths | March 3, 2020 | healthy-individuals unified-teams | cliftonstrengths gostchock partnering-up strengths |