leading the arts

Every once in a while I have breakfast with my great friend Barry. He runs a large software solutions company. He says I “never ask him for anything” but I always walk away with so much wisdom. We talk a lot about leadership, effectiveness, structure, strategy, and management. Here are a few gold nuggets that came from his years of experience and wisdom this morning. Who do u want on your team?
Those who are taking classes, strengthening their skills, outside of their work resources and work hours.
Those who are constantly reading to become better outside work resources and hours.
Those who are bringing new ideas of large change to make things better.

Who do you not want on your team.
Those who depend on their knowledge and skill of past years to get them to the future.
Those who can’t/won’t learn new things to go to new levels. Those who compete with the people on their team instead of coach and mentor them.

Thanks Barry. Can’t wait till next time.
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————— @Edyoung ———–
 things I learned by being the sr pastor
1. U will deal w crazy people
Stop trying to fix them. They will get worse.
How do u know the crazy people?
A. Always play the “God told me” card
B. They don’t take your advice after asking for it
C. Everything is about them (people r after them)
D. 1 issue people – they have pet issues (worship, teaching, etc)

 Surround yourself with the right they
Tough, Honest, Encouraging, Yielded yes (wo)men

 2. must remain creative
Must do this with a team to remain creative.
Doing it yourself will wear u down.
Schedule time4what relaxes U so the ideas will come.
Creativity is change.
Change causes conflict causes growth
Small tweaks can take us to giant peaks

 3. It takes lots of cash to finance ministry
Don’t be afraid to talk about money
Use vision, not need when u talk about money

 4. Talk about the vision “too much” never stop.
People get mission drift constantly

 5. The power of delegation
Delegation w/o investigation is an abomination
Make sure u manage what u delegate.

 6. No matter what u do people will leave
“Not deep enough” (teaching or worship)
“Its getting too big”
“Its too entertaining”
It will hurt but it will happen. Let them go.

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5. emotional – evokes emotion

• an emotional idea makes people care
• only using the facts kills emotion.
• make sure it makes people happy, sad, angry, scared, etc

6. stories – often told as stories

• people are moved by stories.
• information with no story to stick to us. 
• put peoples stories. this is why "Impact" is so popular.
• 5 in 100 people will remember the facts after 10 min. 6 in 10 people will remember a story after 10 min.

when communicating through your art form as these three simple questions.

• what do you want them to know?
• what do you want them to feel?
• what do you want them to do?

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Building an Arts Team from the Ground Up
make sure that constant prayer is part of your arts teams.
1. build trust into your team.

• doesn't just happen. you have to work at it.
• let them know that you will work along with them sometimes.
• delegate to and empower your people
• you have to trust others with your "baby"

2. build respect in your people

• work hard for them – no one respects someone who is lazy
• take risks – people will criticize you at the beginning of risk but will respect you on the other side.
• be honest with each other in love even when it may hurt  your relationship.
• risk things that you may fail at.

3. build vision in your people.

• repeat it until they are tired of it
• aim everything you do with your vision

4. Make sure everything points to the great commission

road blocks to building a great team

• negative comments (volume, style, lighting
• don't consider anonymous comments
• don't always give your church what they want. it's our job to know what they want/need more than they do
• don't turn down the music for individuals
• usually the people that have been in the church the longest have the biggest opinions and know the least about contemporary art forms (how often have they seen bands/dramas outside of the church? that determines how much you listen to their advice.
• keep your personality. you can't be great at many things. you will be average if you try to cater to all styles.

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Q&A session w/ Darlene Zschech & Joel Houston #wcawonder
how do you develop your team?

• must have joy in your teams as you work hard together (Ps 45 God will anoint you with joy and set you above your companions)
• serve the Lord with Gladness – keep out the wining and complaining
• tell people when they can/should do better (velvet covered brick)

how do you insure excellence in music ministry?

• be honest with some people that music isn't their gift! (play the their music back)
• if someone joins our team it should mean that they are open for coaching.

advice for developing song writers?

• must teach people that song writing is from God.
• all songs are listened to by many people and honed to make sure its word based, musically massaged, etc. songs go through a grueling process before they are ever released.
• don't let people submit songs with an unfair "God gave this to me. it's going to be great."

how do you personally maintain your hearts with such a pace.

• maintain the amount of time we spend in the Word
• find what feeds and refreshes your spirit and soul. do things you enjoy and excite you.

Darlene – Make sure that you are constantly pouring into other peoples dreams. You are trying to build a masterpiece every weekend but make sure you take time to build the people in the process.

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Today is our first day at Willow Arts Conference.
First session was with thier Creative Arts Pastor Nancy Beech

all children are creative, ask lots of questions, test all boundaries.
when we get older we trade creativity for mental apathy and status-quo
much of this is because we become afraid to fail. afraid to try.
must have a childlike spirit of openness and creativity.
if we do this we can cultivate a spirit of wonder and wow.

arch enemies of "wow"

• hurries
• stress
• too much technology
• noise
• information overload
• unrealistic job descriptions
• lack of solitude
• absence of celebration
• boredom of routine

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once again.. another inspiring leadership message from Pastor Steve (www.stevecaronna..com)

sometimes people have high expectations of being a leader and when things don't go their way they loose that leadership faith.
Heb 11 – faith is the substance of my confident expectation of my leadership experience.
if i confidently expected that i could be a good leader then that is the substance of my leadership faith.
Don't depend  people to encourage you. When David was at his lowest point ever he encouraged himself in the Lord.

Speak these things over your Leadership to encourage your self in the Lord
1. Ps 1.3 – "whatever i put my hands to prospers. therefore I'm a good leader"
2. Col 1.10 – "i am a fruitful leader and am growing as a leader"
3. 2 Cor 5:14-17 – "My family knows me , not only in the natural realm, but also the spirit realm, and appreciates my ministry."
4. Rom 12:4-5 – "i am a vital part of the body of Christ, and my ministry is important."
5. 2 Tim 2:2 – "The principles i teach to my team are taught to their teams."
6. Acts 1:8 – "The Holy Spirit gives me power to make a difference in the lives of people."
7. Mark 16.20 – "As i work with my team, the Lord works with me and confirms His Word."

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i learn so much from this guy

1. that your spouse knows you are married to them and not the ministry.
2. what real ministry is – that you duplicate yourself. (public min is less than 10% of min)
3. take care of details and the details will take care of you.
4. prayer is a staple!!! (you'll never come in second by putting God 1st – ed ainsworth)
5. faithfulness –     Luke 16:8 be faithful over what is others and you'll get your own. eph 6:9 whatever you make happen for someone else will happen for you.
6. preparation – prov 24.27 – prepare your field first and then build your house. prepare for what you don't need yet. take notes on everything and get a filing system. read, read, and then read some more.
7. master adversity – it will come! it is the breakfast of champions. Ps 23.5 God will prepare a meal for you in the presence of your enemies. peace in the midst of adversity. if you don't learn how to push through adversity skillfully then it caps your leadership.
8. you must take risks – God rewards those who seek him to the point of risk. am i taking the kind of risks that inspire people to follow me? risk is a requirement for success.
9. money – money shouldn't make you nervous. it is a tool. you need it. the church needs it. learn how money works and behaves. ex.
10. what you can't see produces what you can see -  what is on the inside produces the outside. jer 18.4 sometimes you have to break what you have and rebuild if the inside is wrong.
11. people have to be the main thing – never loose
12. submission – you will never see miracles unless you are submitted to the authority God placed over you.

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