team building
How to Create a Strategic Plan for Your Production Ministry
What if I told you that a strategic plan could be a powerful catalyst in getting you the resources you want? Or that it could create alignment in your team? Best of all, what if there was a simple method that would get you there fast? Here's how. Read more
What is Excellence?
Chronic inconsistency is a product of our busy, complicated world. It's not the lack of great results but the inability to repeatedly provide those results. Excellence, therefore, is found in religious consistency. Read more
Leave Your Ego at the Door
It's good to have a healthy, honest opinion of yourself. The problem occurs when you deny your shortcomings, your failings, and you view yourself as better than others. Read more
Embracing Change: 3 Steps to a Healthier Church Tech Team
Are you a church tech change-agent or a serial idea killer? Here are three ways to prevent insecurities or a strong bent toward logic from holding you back in the exploration of new ideas for your church's ministry and vision. Read more
Respect: Is It the Missing Link on Your Team?
Whatever is your job...mixing, directing, preaching, we are all different parts of the same body. But do we even act like we’re on the same team? Read more
Avoiding the 4 Biggest Pitfalls to Volunteer Retention
What makes a volunteer walk away from a church tech team? Here are four reasons why techs leave, and what you can do--preemptively--to make them want to stay. Read more
How to Build Healthy Habits For Tech Ministry--and For Life
To change and grow spiritually, personally and professionally takes fortitude in four distinct areas. A church tech leader and CPM contributor sheds light on them. Read more
10 Tips for Leading Tech Team Creatives
As a tech director, you've probably learned that it takes a different skill set to effectively lead and motivate your creative teams. But are you intentional about honing those skills? Here are 10 actions you can take to become an even better leader. Read more
Church Production Devotional: The Power of Faith: Luke 8:40-56
Jesus has the power to heal and restore. Do we live, serve and lead like we believe this? How will your team answer the three questions this write up poses? Read more
Keeping Your Focus on the Ministry Behind Technology
“Tech ministry” should be more about the second word than the first. Because we're called to be what Paul describes in Romans as “ministers of the gospel," and that starts well before we even touch a piece of gear. Read more
Running Your Tech Team Like a Small Group
When we change how we look at our tech team, we can help our church be more effective. Here's how to focus, not just on the tasks but also on the people performing the tasks. Read more
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4 Make-or-Break Programming Tips for Worship Services
No matter how fantastic your church's teaching, a number of attendees will connect with your services based on the music. These tips can help pastors, worship leaders and tech directors work hand-in-hand toward a unified goal of bringing people back. Read more
People vs. The Product
Church production should no longer be about the gear, the process or the presentation excellence. We need to feed sheep. Read more
Embracing Diversity on Your Tech Team
Regardless of your political beliefs, your race or where you stand on social issues, there is one thing that all churches should be able to agree on. God is love and he has called us to love one another. Read more
Are You a Flexible Church Tech Leader?
To successfully lead or serve on a church tech team, enduring flexibility will be required. Because no matter how hard we plan and practice, mistakes will happen. Read more
Lessons for the Foul-Mouthed Church Tech
Think of the last time you said something you wish you hadn’t. James and Paul tell us it has no place in the church. It doesn't matter if it’s in the tech booth or the pulpit. Read more
The Most Effective Church Tech Leaders Are Good Listeners
If we want to lead our teams better--and gain more influence across the ministry--we must improve our ability to listen. Here are three key ways to accomplish that and to help our teams grow in the process. Read more
Worship Wars & Conflict Resolution
It’s human nature that where opinions are strong, conflict is often close behind. However, how we treat each other when we have disagreements is one of the surest ways we can demonstrate what it means to be Christ followers. Read more
Are You a Self-Centered Tech Director?
Delegating can be scary. But if you’re the one doing everything, you keep other people from having the opportunity to try something new and experience their own successes. Read more
3 Steps in Managing Tech Team Mistakes
Whether you're leading a tech team or serving on one, there will be mistakes--they go with the territory of live-production. But the good news is, they don't have to define your church service or your team. Instead, they can be opportunities. Read more
