The Mission Guys

Trust and Leadership: Lessons from 'The Speed of Trust'

In this episode, Nick and Rick discuss Stephen M.R. Covey's book "The Speed of Trust" and its relevance to leadership within the church. They explore how trust serves as a foundational principle of leadership, emphasizing the importance of integrity, character, and the process of restoring broken trust. Additionally, they connect these concepts to Biblical teachings and encourage leaders to follow Jesus' example, leading at the speed of love.
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From Good to Magnanimous: Level 6 Leadership

In this episode, Nick and Rick discuss one of the best secular leadership books written in our lifetime. They kick around a few ideas that can both take advantage of this all time leadership classic and then take it even further in the Church to help you grow as a Kingdom Leader.
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Leaders Growing Leaders - Too Often Overlooked

One of the most important responsibilities of a leader is to grow other leaders. However, too often in the Church, this is at best an underdeveloped leadership trait and at worst is often ignored — poor leadership is frequently tolerated. In this episode, Nick and Rick share their observations, insights, and practical advice for Church leaders to grow in developing other leaders, a must.
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Pruning good fruit for even more fruit

Did God design tomato plants so that we can be even better leaders? In this episode, Nick and Rick discuss why pruning even fruitful endeavors is necessary in order to feed and grow the most important aspects of our ministries. Pruning can be painful, and is often avoided, but is necessary for more abundant fruit.  This episode will help make pruning easier.
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Good Fights Instead of ‘Catholic Nice’

In this episode, The Mission Guys address the all too often habit of Church leaders who avoid conflict for the pseudo-virtue of being nice (aka Catholic nice). Instead, Nick and Rick offer a fresh perspective and practical methods for leaders and their teams to encourage and have good fights, resulting in better decisions, more creativity, increased clarity, and stronger relationships.
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Sharpen Your Ax: Seize Opportunities to Step Back

Are you taking the time, both scheduled and unscheduled, to step back, reflect, and recharge? We suspect your answer is “No, I don’t have enough time to get all the work done that I need to do, so who has time for that?!”  So in this episode, Nick and Rick explore ways to ensure that you regularly take advantage of the opportunities to “sharpen the ax,” whether they are via planned retreats and offsites, or whether they are less-planned as with a sudden job change. You can and must leverage every good chance to sharpen your axe.
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Don’t use “family” in the workplace

Unfortunately, leaders in the Church too often buy this bad advice as they try to lead people as though they are running a business. That’s not biblical. And it doesn’t work well in the Church. So set down “Inc. Magazine” and “Harvard Business Review” for the length of this episode, and consider what the Bible and Jesus have to say about becoming a family on mission. You’ll love it brothers and sisters! 
 
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Goals? Really? In the Church? Why?

Goals. Focus. Energy. 
 
The Mission Guys close out a mini-series for leaders on strategic planning. In this episode, they’ll help you as leaders to think about how best to establish your organization’s goals, in order to focus the energy of your team to achieve what it is the Lord has called you to achieve together.
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You can’t measure success in the Church! (3rd in a series on strategic planning)

In this episode, Nick and Rick tackle one of the biggest challenges for leadership teams in the Church, which is to figure out how to assess and monitor the success of their organization (diocese, parish, school, apostolate, etc.). Metrics, indicators, measures, markers, KPIs, SMART objectives, and many more terms like those often get leaders in the Church especially agitated. Some insist that you can’t measure results in the church, while others suggest that you should measure the Church just like a business…both extremes are wrong, but contain some valuable insights.
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You must clarify the mission! (second in a series)

In this episode, the second part of a mini-series on strategic planning, Nick and Rick focus on the concept of ’mission’, the definition, the often confused difference and relationship between mission and vision, why clarity of mission matters in the church (parish, diocese, school, family, your organization), and how to approach missional clarity.
 
Though vision and mission are critically linked and dependent on each other, it is vital for leaders to know the difference and the importance of providing clarity of both. So the “mission” of this episode is to help leaders become more comfortable and confident in discerning and effectively communicating their mission for the entire team/family.
 
Mission Challenge: 
Prayer Sessions: Higher Level, longer-term mission. For example:
What is our part of the Great Commission; what are you calling us to do? 
How are we to arrive at the vision of success that you have shown us?
Prayer Sessions: Deeper Dives, shorter term
How will we succeed in your mission for us?
What is most important right now?
Who is to do what?
What am I personally called to do in light of the larger mission here?
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