5 Ways to Create Loyal Volunteers
"The strength of brand loyalty begins with how your product makes people feel." This quote from Jay Samit may be referring to a product but I find that it aligns with my theory on creating…
5 Ideas for Appreciating Volunteers this Christmas
It's not just beginning to look a lot like Christmas, it's becoming a lot like Christmas! For me, I've got Christmas music playing 24/7, Christmas events that are filling my calendar and shopping lists that…
Andy Stanley’s 6 Questions for Every Leader
Many of you know who Andy Stanley is, the founding pastor of North Point Community Church in Atlanta, GA. Not only is he a one of my favorite communicators in the church, but he's among…
3 Components to Prevent Burnout in Your Creative Team
In many areas of you life, whether you work full time in a church, part time, or volunteer your time and have a separate career, you may find yourself feeling exhausted and burned out from…
3 Phases of Ministry
Most of the SALT Community and those who have attended one of our gatherings, work full time or part time for a church. And those who don't work full time for a church, likely serve…
6 Obsessions of a Great Event Producer
Your creativity as an event producer can be classic or it can be a twist of the classic. For example, you know the old saying, “give a man a fish, he eats for today. Teach…
5 Ways to Build Trust
Good leaders continually think about ways to get their team to be more effective. They experiment with tools and apps that will make the team's workflow more efficient. They move people around and give them different…
8 Tips: Appreciating Volunteers
As a volunteer at my church, I have first hand knowledge on what it is like to be a volunteer. It is something I feel lead to do and am very excited about having the opportunity to…
6 Volunteer Invitation Ideas
Tim Stevens wrote Simply Strategic Volunteers and said something that has stayed with me ever since. We should use the term "invite" instead of the word "recruit" when it comes to adding volunteers to your team.…