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What is next for you?

by Kenny Conley | Feb 15, 2015 | Leadership | 0

For the last year or two, we’ve made a shift in our ministry to constantly thinking about...

Systems: Anticipating what is coming

by Kenny Conley | Aug 13, 2014 | Leadership | 0

Yes, systems take extra work to set up and extra work to maintain. Systems require you to take a...

Leading a NextGen meeting: the Agenda

by Kenny Conley | May 7, 2014 | Ideas, Leadership | 6

Last week at Orange, I led a breakout called “Aligning Your NextGen Team.” A big portion of this breakout was unpacking concepts around leading meetings. One of the best ways to align a team is to meet frequently. Last year at Orange, I led a breakout just on leading meetings. This has been a fun journey for me because 18-24 months ago, I was amazing at leading terrible meetings. After a lot of research, learning from others and implementing some great ideas, I now lead good meetings and sometimes they’re really great. Maybe one day they’ll be fantastic!

One of the most important components to a good meeting is having an agenda.

Room ratios in your kidmin space

by Kenny Conley | Sep 25, 2012 | Ideas | 6

Confession: I’ve been in ministry for 15+ years, and I’ve never been a part of a...

A little calendar planning love for you my friends!

by Kenny Conley | May 26, 2011 | Ideas | 2

A couple of weeks ago I got the distinct pleasure of leading some breakouts at the Orange Conference. It was a ton of fun and I know that it was helpful to many. One of the breakouts I led was “How To: Plan a Ministry...

Calendar Planning: Promotion deadlines

by Kenny Conley | Dec 22, 2009 | Geek, Ideas | 0

A few weeks ago I wrote about the calendar planning retreat I took the kids staff on. We took about 12-14 hours to map out all of 2010. We wrapped up that retreat with a pretty clear idea of what the following year would look...

Calendar planning

by Kenny Conley | Nov 23, 2009 | Ideas | 2

I did something I’ve never done before a few weeks ago. On of our Early Childhood leaders has a beautiful lake house on Lake Travis and offered to share it with my team, so I took my Kids Quest team away overnight to plan...

Free: Coordinatr

by Kenny Conley | Mar 25, 2008 | Geek, Ideas | 0

Coordinatr is to Evite what Twitter is to blogging. It’s specialty? “Microevents.” Want to invite a bunch of friends over for dinner and a movie? Coordinatr is your tool. Now I love Evite. I typically use it...