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Communications
Serve by Coaching: Communication Skills
Coaching others through your edits of their work is a unique way you can serve your organization. Take advantage of this practice and walk people through why you made specific changes and how to improve their objective and subjective communication skills....
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Communications
Coaching Others Through Your Edits
Taking the time to coach others on the edits you make on their work has proven to be a worthwhile practice for us. It is mutually beneficial because it gives our Communications team the opportunity to serve other teams, and it allows other teams to become better communicators....
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Communications
Inside Our Communication Guide
One way we avoid making mistakes on communicative pieces is by referring to our Communication Guide. It contains our mission and core values, a list of "best practices," and practical information regarding style and punctuation specifications. The Communication Guide serves as our standard, clearly...
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Communications
The 5 Key Characteristics of Life.Church's Voice
At Life.Church we have five key characteristics that serve as a filter through which we run every communicative piece we create. These help us keep our voice consistent and clear across every channel....
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Communications
Crafting Your Church's Voice
Every church has a unique voice, and that voice should be loud and clear! Express your church's mission and values through an effective voice that remains consistent across all your channels of communication....
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Human Resources
Developing Staff: Bring In. Build Up. Train. Send Out.
The purpose for our staff here at Life.Church is to bring in, build up, train, and then send out. We recognize that great staff aren't found but developed in the right environments. That's why we create those environments and bring people in. While they are with us, we build our staff up and train...
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Human Resources
Being Open-Handed with Our Staff
We believe our greatest resource is our people, our staff, and it is our job to steward them well for the season they are with us. Seasons have beginnings and ends, so we are intentional about developing and equipping our staff for whatever God has next for them. And when the time comes for a staff...
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Life.Church
Life.Church's Open Door Event
Open Door is an event held at each campus that gives campus staff and attendees a chance to get to know one another. Typically held over dinner, Open Door provides the space for staff and attendees to connect on a personal level, ask questions about Life.Church, and hear the history and vision for...
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General
Why We Don't Do Church Membership
At Life.Church, one of our goals is to be spiritual contributors, not spiritual consumers. We've found, however, that church membership does not necessarily encourage this attitude in the most effective way. Instead, we believe that when people feel needed and known, they are drawn to engage and c...
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Experience
Three Tips for Stage Communication
It can be scary—having only a few minutes to convey all the news, initiatives, and stories that you want to share with your congregation during a service. But if you think of communicating from stage less as making announcements and more as casting vision, you'll be able to craft stronger, more coh...
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