Session 1 – Andy Stanley – Creating and Sustaining Momentum
- Three components of sustained momentum. New, Improved, Improving
- Negative circumstances are fertile soil for a burst of positive momentum.
- Organizational momentum is often triggered by one of three things: New Leadership, New Direction, New Product.
- If something new is not a significant improvement over the old thing, don’t impliment it. Make it significantly better, and then launch it. The bigger & better the improvement, the longer the shelf life of the momentum.
- *Side note* I am continually amazed by how Andy Stanley absolutely mesmerizes a room. It’s unbelievable. Jaws are dropped & inks pens and keyboards are flying.
- Staff & Leaders are the R&D department of the church… Evalute early and often. Unfiltered evaluation is required for improvement to happen.
- Manager types are critical & important, but there is the potential to over-manage, and thereby manage away creativity & leadership.
- “I’ll take a couple of things with momentum over several things that are decent anyday!”
- “Ask yourself; ‘What are the behaviors we like or dislike, and what are we doing systematically to either foster or eliminate those behaviors?’”.
*Awesome session… Can’t wait to take in more content. This event is a power packed 8 hours; no fluff and little break-time. I will be mentally exhausted at the end of the day.*
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