Thanks for joining us on Season 3 of The Flourishing Culture Podcast , brought to you by The Best Christian Workplaces Institute. You’ll learn how to build a flourishing workplace culture that drives the ministry impact of your organization, your church, or your company, brought to you by the Best Christian Workplaces Institute. Now here’s your host, BCWI president, Al Lopus.
Whether you work in an church, parachurch organization or company, the struggle to communicate can sometimes leave your culture in a painful, frustrating place.
So, What do you do?
Today, it’s a real pleasure to be talking with Jeff Lockyer, Lead Pastor at Southridge Community Church in St Catherines, Ontario, Canada.
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Hi Jeff, and welcome to our podcast, today.
BCWI has helped us make culture something that we can develop strategy, action planning and goals around.”
In this episode, you’ll learn about:
- Overcoming the struggle to communicate in your organization
- Leader’s in a church must first experience the kingdom themselves
- You can only lead people into what you are personally experiencing yourself
- Leading people to experience the kingdom of God in their work
- Focus on the greatest bottlenecks or hindrances to experiencing a flourishing culture
- Facts are your friends
- Strategizing around culture
- Make culture something that you can develop action planning and goals around
- Using healthy communication to foster mutual understanding, trust and productivity
- Fairness is a unifier
- Treat your culture as a strategy that the whole church, across all departments, can rally around
- Relational and organizational glue that to enter in and face challenges as a team better
- Identify and resolve conflicts much quicker
Explore Additional Resources
- Learn more on last week’s blog post: Culture as a Strategy for Greater Ministry Impact
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