Issue No. 2 of Your Weekly Staff Meeting features a classic book and a Starbucks way to thank your staff for thanking others. Staff meetings often get stale and sterile. But don’t skip ‘em or skimp on ‘em. Winston Churchill said, “There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.” Your team members know—in their gut—if you care about them. A well-executed staff meeting says you care.
Do You Know Any Authoritarian Leaders?
Give This Book to Someone Who's Just Been Fired
David complained to the Lord that King Saul was hardly God-honoring—so why should he honor and respect this tyrant king? Sound familiar? “Why did I get fired? My boss is the jerk, not me. Lord, this isn’t fair!”
Gene Edwards is a master storyteller and this classic, A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness, unwraps the relationships between David, Saul and Absalom. His conclusions may astound you. It’s a great book to mention at your weekly staff meeting.
The best time to talk about God-honoring leadership and followership is when things are going well—not in the middle of a nasty termination. While I have given this book to a team member who’s just been fired—it’s better to make these biblical values part of your core culture from the get go.
To order from Amazon, click on the title for A Tale of Three Kings: A Study in Brokenness, by Gene Edwards.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
1. If God puts people into leadership positions (U.S. presidents, ministry CEOs, department heads, parents, etc.), but we don’t respect them as leaders—what does God think about that?
2. If the leader (appointed by God) discerns that a team member needs to be terminated, what should our response be?
Are You a Thanker or a Skimper?
Insights from the Management Buckets Workshop Experience
A ministry leader called us last week to say THANKS for our recent donation. We give (we hope) for spiritual reasons—but be assured, we’ll send more checks to them. We were blessed, and surprised, to get a personal phone call.
Are you a thanker or a skimper?
Thankers invest time (and postage) in writing personal, hand-written notes. They invest time in making personal phone calls, not leaving voice mail. Skimpers don’t send receipts for smaller gifts unless the IRS requires it. Skimpers send automated letters to “Dear Roberta,” when everyone calls her “Robbie.” Skimpers miss the whole point.
In our Management Buckets Workshop Experience, we share dozens of ways that you can create a culture of thankfulness in your donor and volunteer appreciation programs.
Your Weekly Staff Meeting Questions:
1. Should we launch “The Thanker Team?” Any team member that sends a personal, handwritten thank you note each working day this month will be thanked with a Starbucks gift card at month-end.
2. What happens when donors over “x” dollars get special treatment, but donors under “x” dollars get the same old/same old stuff?
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