Podcast Episode #321
Staff culture is important for healthy churches. Today, we talk with Bryan and Shannon Miles who lead the #1 staff culture in the U.S. according to Entrepreneur magazine.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- “You can’t ask others to do things you’re not willing to do as the leader.”
- “As a leader, you can’t force or create a policy that you’re not willing to live and die by as well.”
- “Not everyone carries the same vision for the church that you do.”
- Sometimes we take leadership so seriously that we don’t have any fun.
The four keys for healthy staff culture we discuss on the episode are:
- Lead by example
- Invest in your culture
- Share common values
- Focus on the people
About Bryan & Shannon Miles and BELAY
Episode Sponsors
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Resources Mentioned in Today’s Podcast
- BELAY
- Team members acknowledge their weaknesses to one another
- Team members voice their opinion even at the risk of causing disagreement
- Team members offer unprovoked constructive feedback to one another
- The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni
- The Levity Effect by Adrian Gostick
