Cracking Your Church's Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series)

Cracking Your Church's Culture Code: Seven Keys to Unleashing Vision and Inspiration (Jossey-Bass Leadership Network Series) by Chand, Samuel R.. Hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780470627815.

Strategies for transforming a toxic church culture Why is it that the best strategic plans and good leadership often are not able to move churches in the desired direction? Sam Chand contends that toxic culture is to blame. Quite often, leaders dont sense the toxicity, but it poisons their relationships and derails their vision. This work describes five easily identifiable categories of church culture (inspiring-accepting-stagnant-discouraging-toxic), with diagnostic descriptions in the book and a separate online assessment tool. The reader will be able to identify strengths and needs of their churchs culture, and then apply practical strategies (communication, control and authority, selection and placement of personnel, etc.) to make their churchs culture more positive. Discusses how to diagnose the state of a churchs culture Reveals what it takes to put in place effective strategies for creating a more positive church culture Author served on the board of EQUIP (Dr. John Maxwells Ministry), equipping five million leaders world-wide. This important book offers a clear guide for understanding and recreating a healthy church culture.