Measure mission achievement

Use examples, surveys, and indicators to measure mission achievement.

Reflect on your goals

Reflect on your goals daily, weekly, quarterly, and annually.

Good meetings are on TARGET

Good meetings are on TARGET in terms of team purpose, assessment, results, guidelines, effective facilitation, and types of meetings.

Meet student needs

If you want to help your students to better connect God's world and Word, meet these 5 needs.

Use questions

Here are 5 things you can do to move forward on using questions to help your students connect God's world and Word.

Use assessment

Here are 5 things you can do to move forward on using assessment to help your students connect God's world and Word.

Help students connect

Here are 5 things you can do to move forward on helping your students connect God's world and Word.

Facilitators use skills

When you facilitate, make sure your listen, inquire, focus, and encourage.

Facilitate from your heart

Facilitate from your heart, from beliefs you have about personal growth.

Meet the needs of workshop participants

To help workshop participants learn and apply their learning, meet their needs. Give them support, concrete examples, opportunities to apply their learning, reflection time, and engaging instruction.

What's the framework?

Here's a framework you can you to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches.

Ask questions about creation-fall-redemption-restoration

Help you students develop a Christ-centered worldview. Ask them questions about creation-fall-redemption-restoration.

Use the GROW process

The GROW process is a user-friendly process you can use to coach others (Goal • Reality • Options • Will do).  

Use LIFE skills

When coaching, listen, inquire, focus, and encourage.

The coach's heart

Christian coaching flows from the heart, from beliefs about empowering others. 

Use coaching to empower others

If you want to empower others, use a coaching approach.

Ask questions to DRAW others out

Your fellow teachers want to help their students better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. You can help your fellow teachers by asking questions to DRAW them out.  

Reduce your frustrations

Do you want to reduce your frustrations so you can get on with what God's calling you to do? If so, reflecting on these 5 questions can help.  

Move organizational improvement forward

Organizational improvement can help you, those you work with, and your organization. Take steps to move organizational improvement forward.

How can you improve your coaching?

When I think of improving my coaching, 3 areas come to mind. Those 3 areas are beliefs, skills, and process. 

How can you manage yourself more effectivey at work?

If you want to get more done in less time at work, think about how you can manage yourself more effectively at work.

Get organized

Before getting organized, make sure you're clear on what being organized means and how being organized can help you more effectively carry out your mission. 

Start small and get started

Take steps to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. Get started today.

Asking open-ended questions works

Help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches. Ask open-ended questions.

Use the strengths God has given you

How faithfully and effectively do you use your God-given strengths?

How focused are you on your mission?

Leaders who are focused on their mission do 5 things. To what extent do you do these 5 things?

Pay attention

If you want to get your goals done, pay attention to them.

Connect God's world, God's Word, and life

Help your students connect God's world, God's Word, and their lives.

Change is uncomfortable and doable

Keep in mind that organizational change is both uncomfortable and doable.

Lead with questions

Leaders empower others. A key way leaders empower others is by asking questions.

Assessment helps students value and get proficient at Biblical perspective

Use assessment to help your students value and get proficient at connecting what they study and what the Bible teaches.

How much time should you invest?

Reflecting on 4 questions can help you figure out how much time you should invest in each of your goals.

To close the gap, do 4 things

To close the gap between the words of your mission statement and the reality of your current situation, do 4 things: focus on your mission, empower others, work smart, and pursue excellence.

Have your students connect 3 things

To help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview, have them connect course content, Biblical priniciples, and God's story of creation-fall-redemption-restoration.

Increase your investment in your staff

If you want your organization to more effectively carry out its God-given mission, increase your investment in your staff.

Schedule your key priorities first

Make sure you schedule time for your key priorities before you schedule time for other things.

Reflection can help you pursue your God-given calling

It's important to pursue your God-given calling. Reflecting can help. Here are 7 questions you can reflect on.

To achieve your God-given mission, make sure of 4 things

Make sure you ask God for help, define mission achievement, measure mission achievement, and take action.

Use the 1-2-3-2-1 lesson model

Here's lesson model that uses best practice to point students to God.

Do right things

Want to increase your effectiveness? Do right things, then do things right.

DEAL with student learning needs

To help your students better connect what they study and what the Bible teaches, DEAL with your students’ learning needs:
  • Define your students’ learning needs.
  • Explore the how you can respond to your students’ learning needs.
  • Act.
  • Look at the results.

Experience a coaching session

Considering getting coaching? If so, be sure you know what coaching is. 

You can find out what coaching is by experiencing a coaching session. And you can experience part of a coaching session by watching this 5-minute video of me getting coached. 

A coaching session usually takes 30-60 minutes and includes identifying a goal, exploring the current reality of the goal, brainstorming options for addressing the goal, and determining action steps. In this video, youll see me identify my goal and then begin exploring the current reality of my goal.

Biblical perspective assessment helps

Do you want to help your students connect what they study and what the Bible teaches? To value those connections? And to get feedback you can use to modify instruction? If so, give your students a Biblical perspective assessment.

Coach from your heart

Through coaching, you can empower others to grow. While effective coaching does involve technique, at a deeper level effective coaching is about your heart, about your beliefs, about who you are. Coach from your heart.

Want to achieve your goals?

The point is not to have goals. The point is to achieve goals. To achieve your goals, take 4 steps: pray, put, take, and reflect.

To empower others, provoke reflection

Want to empower others? Provoke them to reflect. How? By asking open-ended questions.

Teach and assess Biblical perspective

Help your students develop a Christ-centered worldview during class by teaching Biblical perspective lessons and giving Biblical perspective assessments.

Why ask students questions?

Want to help your students better understand and apply a Biblical perspective? Ask questions!

It's self-management, not time management

God calls us to manage ourselves within the time He gives us, not to manage time.

Target Biblical perspective

By targeting Biblical perspective, teachers can help student apply a Biblical perspective to what they study.

To achieve your goals, get a coach

If you want to achieve your goals, get a coach. Your coach will listen, ask questions, and provide the support, encouragement, and accountability you need to achieve your goals.