Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page by Larry Osborne

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Serving on a church board can be a tough assignment. Marathon business meetings and petty squabbling can quickly take a toll. But lay leaders aren’t the only ones who find board meetings to be a harrowing experience. So do many pastors.

Larry Osborne is no exception. Six months into a new pastorate, he found himself embroiled in controversy. Old members left as fast as new ones could be added. He and the board seldom saw eye-to-eye on anything.

Troubled and confused, he set out to find some answers. What were the secrets of an effective leadership team? Could a pastor lead without becoming a dictator? What would it take to develop and maintain and unified board? Could it even be done?

Now, after many years of board meetings and hours of research, Osborne applies tested, no-nonsense wisdom to questions like these:

• What roadblocks keep a board from working well together?

• What do you do when a member of the leadership team isn’t working out?

• What work should a board handle? What should it definitely not touch?

• How can a leadership team guide a congregation through controversial changes?

A modern classic of church leadership, The Unity Factor shows pastors what it takes to develop a healthy environment of teamwork as leaders pursue God’s will for their church.

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