Sticky Teams

Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page

By: Larry Osborne

Narrated by: Don Hagen

Learn the secrets to building and maintaining a healthy, productive, and unified ministry team that sticks together for the long haul.

Serving as a church leader can be a tough calling. Whatever your role, odds are you've known your share of the frustration and disillusionment that comes with turf battles, conflicting vision, and marathon meetings. You may have asked yourself, "How did it get this way"?

With 20 years of front-line ministry experience, Larry Osborne understands congregations (as baffling as they can sometimes be) and he know how the best-intentioned teams can become disrupted and disunified. With this audiobook, he aims to shore up the foundation of a healthy team - what does a unified and thriving church leadership look like and how can it be achieved?

Sticky Teams is divided into three main sections, dealing with key aspects of what it takes to develop long-term, efficient harmony:

• Landmines and Roadblocks exposes the organizational structures, policies, and traditions that can unintentionally sabotage even the best of teams. You'll discover strategies for managing conflicts and getting around obstacles.
• Equipped for Ministry explores what it takes to get everyone on the same page and headed in the same direction. Sections deal with practical tips for board, staff, and congregational alignment.
• Communication examines what it takes to keep everyone on the same page, with a special emphasis on some especially dicey areas and issues of ministry, such as conversations about money.

Whatever your situation; from start-up phase, to mid-sized, to megachurch, Osborne has been there. As the pastor of North Coast Church, he's walked his board, staff, and congregation through the process of becoming more genuinely unified, and, because of that, better able to carry out God's design for his church.

With warm encouragement and insight, he shares expertise that most pastors and leadership teams learn only from long experience: How to invest the time to create church harmony and how to lead so that unity is maintained long-term.

©2010 Larry Osborne (P)2010 Zondervan

A Must Book For Leaders

This is a must book to read for young leaders who wants to avoid disaster in their church leadership team as well as for seasoned leaders who wants to polish their skills.

Relevant

Helpful information for my ministry role. Narrator had a voice easy to listen to. Enjoyable.

Great book!

I was very pleased to finally get to listen to the book that had been referenced and talked about in so many places. A great book on teams and how to make them functional.

Great leadership read for Pastors

Loved it. Was very practical and helpful. I highly recommend you get a copy and take in the knowledge to help lead proper change.

church leadership

best book on Church leadership and navigating your staff and board to unity and church health. Must read for every local church pastor, staff and board. Why learn the hard way when you can download wisdom from 30+ years of a master pastor.

Better than expected

I expected this book to be good, but it is even better then I expected.

Essential for anyone in Leadership . . .period!

Very insightful book for anyone in Leadership, even if you are not in ministry. I got alot of usueful insight from the book and I would be happy to recommend it to others

One good tool to forming or reforming your church.

I may not agree with some conclusions but overall a good book. This is written well outside of traditional churchiness which I found refreshing.

very clear, simple,

very helpful for anyone in the ministry and building a team. deal with a lot of 《religious confused issues 》

Practical!

So many times through this book, I found myself going, “I wished I had known that last year.“ What a blessing to help me moving forward in my ministry!