Better Future Series: ADAPT Your Generosity

Auxano Senior Lead Navigator and Director of Resourcing Greg Gibbs unpacks questions and concerns around church finances.

Better Future Web Series: ADAPT Your Communication

Auxano co-founder Jim Randall unpacks vision-driven communication and complete clarity best practices from the Better Future Web Series.

How To Handle Communications When Crisis Hits: Part Two

Failure to make yourself heard in a crisis is a very risky move, almost as much as failure to communicate at all. There is no one who can speak more effectively for you and your organization than you.

How To Handle Communications When Crisis Hits: Part One

When your church finds itself in the midst of a crisis, the ripple effects can disrupt lives and operations for the foreseeable future if public opinion is not properly addressed and stewarded.

Creating a New Scoreboard: Results, Engagement, and Strategy

Auxano co-founder Will Mancini wrapped up his two-day introduction to the Better Future Web Series by talking about creating a new scoreboard.

Pastoring Your Cul-de-Sac: Samaritan Living

The Great Commission may carry you to the ends of the world, but it starts on your street. If anyone should “neighbor” differently, it should be us. So let’s do it. Let us love our neighborhoods as ourselves.

Four Paths to A Better Future

The clarity to lead toward God’s better future will not come from confidence in a tactic or plan, as those are changing hour-by-hour. Clarity will only emerge from faith in the One who placed your unique church, in your unique place, with your unique people, with your unique passion for accomplishing something that no other church can accomplish.

Let’s Talk About the FUTURE: God’s Better Future!

There is a better future to lead toward, even when it doesn’t feel like it.

As we all navigate these strange and challenging days, here are a few resources to help you lead toward God’s better future.

You Cannot Fight Uncertainty with Certainty, It Takes Clarity

Welcome to a world devoid of best practices, proven strategies, and models to follow. Here’s the thing though, the opposing force of uncertainty is not certainty: it is clarity.

How to Make Crisis an Opportunity for Growth

Every crisis is a leadership opportunity. Daniel is a great model for how to pray during a time of crisis. His prayer is a great model for believers who find themselves in a period of crisis.

What Happens When You Can’t Pass the Plate?

It is highly probable that churches will collect significantly less money than they are used to collecting over the next 3-8 weeks.

This is a time that calls for proactivity and faith. 

Leaders Never Stop Learning

The practice of lifelong learning has never been more important to leaders than it is today. The necessity of expanding your knowledge through lifelong learning is critical to your success.

Pastoral Succession is a Family Matter

Succession Planning is bigger than hiring the right person, developing leaders or making sure the organization doesn’t lose momentum. It’s also a family matter.

Are You Developing Leaders in These Key Places?

From a Christian perspective, leadership development is not constrained to one environment. Because the whole world is His, leadership development can happen in a plethora of places.

Commit to Generosity Now By Starting Wherever You Are

Generosity has a starting point. You don’t just wake up one day and poof, you’re generous. It begins with a decision to steward your resources with a heavenly mindset.

The Main Reason Your Strategic Plans Are Failing

Sometime it seems like the more plans church leadership teams create, the less church ministry actually happens.

100% of Pastors Will Stop Pastoring at Some Point

Pastoral succession planning isn’t the last great thing a leader does. It is the gateway to a leader’s greatest season of influence.

How to Utilize Four Different Modes of Design Thinking

You don’t need a Master of Fine Arts degree and nine years of experience at a design studio to engage in designing. You just need to find a situation worth improving and then work through the creative process.

Keys to Unlocking the Power of Your Leadership Energy

What can you do to activate the fullness of the energy that God places in you?

Are You Looking for Tools to Help Design Your Succession Planning Process?

Learn how to transition with wisdom & power in Auxano’s Pastoral Succession Boot Camp.