Culture Development

“Write down the vision so that those who see it may run with it.”

“Without vision the people perish.”

The power of a culture statement can never be underestimated and is almost always overlooked. Do your employees have goals? Do they have ambitions? Are they happy with the status quo? Do they have visions that are going unrealized? How do you get and keep your staff on the same page?
The answer to all of the above is culture!

Read the DCGC culture statement. Our employees can read that and know what they are expected to help create around our offices which they can in turn take to our clients. What about your staff? Don’t ever forget that their happiness is most effective when it is all the way through and not just skin deep
The culture that they buy into is the level of involvement you’ll receive back from them. It is the essence of vision. And vision is you’re primary job as church leader. You must vision the staff and you must vision the membership.

If they see it, they can run with it. If they never see it, they will never run with it. Vision is seen in church culture. And every church has a different culture. Either you’re managing that culture or your culture is defining itself._ Staff Development

Your staff holds the key to what God wants to do through your church. Servant leadership places you in the position of helping your staff. Of course, Jesus’ example was to focus on the development of his staff realizing that even one of his staff wasn’t exactly the example of a model church staff member.

Leo Tyler is one of God’s true soldiers. He has tools, namely his God-inspired “Healthy Soul” series of personal development seminars, will help to expose areas of need to each and every staff member so they can do something to improve their own personal and spiritual health… which we all need to do!

Each department needs to be and feel as though they are an integral part of the church. When the church is small, every one is integral.

Team Development
While the rest of the world is discovering the power of one, the church world, hearteningly is moving in the opposite direction towards the power of synergy found in team dynamics.

Pastoral Staff Development
The Pastor needs a sounding board. The Pastor needs objectivity without loss of control or without too much control That only comes from the outside. Someone has to look out for the big vision needs of the Pastor. Tim Dillard serves Pastors as the CVO – the Chief Vision Officer.

Member Development
You are probably already focused in this area. But is the development process and progress of members lined up with new members and new converts processes. If not, there will, if not now, sometime in the future, be a huge disconnect with the people.

Financial Development
The financial health of the church will have a great effect on Godly Growth. There’s a reason why more than 2000 scriptures and almost two-thirds of Jesus’ parables dealt with the issue of money. The staff has to continually strive to reach new standards in this area so they can inspire the members.

Ministry Development
What ministries need to be started in order to accomplish the goals of the church? That is the question. Having started numerous ministries in a church of 35,000 people, one quickly finds out that it is much easier to start ministries as the church grows.

Small Group Development
From Cho to Castellanos to numerous American churches, the fervor over small group ministry as a way of closing the proverbial “back door” to the church has been unprecedented. It has also been very much misunderstood.