Questions We Answer

We know that you grapple with many difficult questions as a Christian leader. We want to help. Complex concerns about ministry can’t be fully addressed here, of course, but we provide a starting point for engaging the deep issues. If you don’t find what you are looking for, please see if our partners can help or contact us.

Management

How can I make sure that difficult conversations are productive?

We call them “crucial conversations” — the conversations we avoid but know that we should have. The stakes are high, emotions run strong, and opinions vary. Effective conversations invite both parties into a shared space or “pool of shared meaning,” in order to engage in open and honest dialogue.  In effective crucial conversations, we tell our stories and invite others to do the same.

Because this issue is part of the work of so many Christian leaders, participants in Foundations of Christian Leadership spend time working on this issue.

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