Take the Lid Off Your Church: 6 Steps to Building a Healthy Senior Leadership Team [Kindle Edition]

Tony Morgan (Author), Craig Groeschel (Foreword)

Book Description

"Take the Lid Off Your Church" is a practical eBook to help churches, non-profits and businesses rethink their structure beginning with the senior leadership team. The book addresses several key questions regarding the health of this team including:

> When should you begin building a senior leadership team?
> What are the roles of this team?
> Who should be on the senior leadership team?
> How does this team empower other leaders in the organization?
> What should the senior leadership start and stop doing? What's their focus?

Like previous eBooks written by Tony Morgan, this resource can be read in about 30 minutes, but it's designed to promote conversation and next steps. In other words, consider reading and talking about the content and the discussion questions with your team.

If you feel stuck in your leadership or as an organization, you might want to stop looking at your frontline staff or blaming the people you're trying to reach and spend a little more time evaluating the health of your senior leadership team. This eBook is designed to help you begin that journey.

Product Details

• File Size: 162 KB
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B009H68UBE
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #48,663 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #17 in Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Clergy > Church Leadership

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Good read for leadership team October 17, 2012

By Brent D. Johnsen

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

Short e-book that gives insights to the structure and expectations of a church leadership team. Basically an expanded blog post that's good, but not revolutionary. The self-promotion of his coaching/consulting business and the name dropping of the vanderbloeman search groups felt awkward and forced.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Sure wish I could turn back the clock September 28, 2012

By Jerry McQuay

Format:Kindle Edition

Man, I wish I'd had Tony's eBook about 10 years ago - it would have saved me some of the worst decisions I've made as a leader. But since we can't turn back the clock, I would at least urge you to get your copy & Take the Lid off your Church by implementing its principles.

Probably most of us reading this would agree with Tony's assessment that the Senior Leadership Team is one of the most important factors in a church's growth & health, but I'd be the first to admit I haven't know how to insure the right people were on that team or that the team was functioning for optimal results. This eBook gives you the tools to solve both issues.

This may be the best $3 & 30-minute investment you'll ever make in your ministry!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Homerun from Tony Morgan October 1, 2012

By Randy Clark

Format:Kindle Edition

Tony Morgan brings to this book his experience consulting with churches and leaders around the county. What I appreciate most about this book is its brevity. He makes his points well and strongly but without over-explaining or providing endless, repetitive examples. You can read this book in a single setting and I would encourage you to do so. What you don't want to do - and won't I would venture - is finish it in a single session. tony provides practical advice on discerning whether your senior leadership team is the lid on your church's growth. And he doesn't leave the chief leader, the pastor, out of it. I found this a hard read at certain points where I saw my own leadership and my own church painted a bit more accurately than I found comforting.

The book also provides clear ways of assessing the team (and individual leaders) and suggestions for moving ahead. The discussion guide included at the end brings the material to your context and team in a practical way.

If you find this book as useful and thought-provoking as I did, I'd encourage you to look at Tony's other short works on leadership. Their brevity - and this one as well - is no indicator of their usefulness and applicability. Once you've read this one you will want to go farther and deeper.

More About the Author

Tony is the Chief Strategic Officer and founder of TonyMorganLive.com. He's a consultant, leadership coach and writer who helps churches get unstuck and have a bigger impact. More important, he has a passion for people. He's all about helping people meet Jesus and take steps in their faith.

For 14 years, Tony served on the senior leadership teams at West Ridge Church (Dallas, GA), NewSpring Church (Anderson, SC) and Granger Community Church (Granger, IN). With Tim Stevens, Tony has co-authored Simply Strategic Stuff, Simply Strategic Volunteers and Simply Strategic Growth - each of which offers valuable, practical solutions for different aspects of church ministry. His book, Killing Cockroaches (B&H Publishing) challenges leaders to focus on the priorities in life and ministry. His most recent books on leadership and ministry strategy are available on Kindle.

Tony has also written several articles on staffing, technology, strategic planning and leadership published by organizations like Outreach Magazine, Catalyst and Pastors.com. Tony and his wife, Emily, live near Atlanta, Georgia with their four children -- Kayla, Jacob, Abby and Brooke.