What are we Assuming?

What are we Assuming?

What Are We Assuming? I love a saying that I heard recently. “What is assumed is often what is most important.”   The idea is that in so many situations in life, we erringly assume that something is understood or true, and we are left wondering why our plans...

Amazing Parish Follow-up Checklist

Amazing Parish Follow-up Checklist

A friend of mine who works in a parish recently asked me to help him assess how well his parish was doing in regard to what it learned during the Amazing Parish Conference. I responded by asking him a series of questions which provides something of a self-assessment...

5 Signs You Attend A Healthy Parish

5 Signs You Attend A Healthy Parish

By Caitlin Bootsma | August 22, 2016 Business guru Patrick Lencioni is well-known for his expertise on organizational health. In fact, he is a New York Times best-selling author of books like The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team and Death by Meeting. But Lencioni is also a...