When communicating our ministry’s God-given vision to our people, we must remember to communicate the Four P’s. Vision without the Four P’s will result in extreme frustration for our people.
The Four P’s come from a wonderful book that has sold over 400,000 copies. William Bridges wrote, Managing Transitions (Perseus Publishing, 1991, 2003). Go get it right HERE!
(1) We must communicate the Purpose behind our vision. Communicating purpose to our people means answering the question...
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Sound familiar? In just the past two days, I’ve heard this cry from two ministries. In one case, it was after a meeting with an ED and two of his board members about their upcoming event. If you know about Transformational Giving fundraising dinners, you know they’re all about ‘casting the vision.’ So it’s, um, kind of a big problem if three ministry leaders, as I witnessed during that meeting, have differing views of the vision and type of organization they want to be. I followed...
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