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Cultivating Courageous Innovation and Risk-Taking

Cultivating Courageous Innovation and Risk-Taking. Sources: Michael Slaughter, Larry Osborne, and George Barna. Issues of innovation. Introducing vs. Implementing America good at introducing innovation, Japan better at developing apps Prioritizing among multiple innovations.

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Cultivating Courageous Innovation and Risk-Taking

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  1. Cultivating Courageous Innovation and Risk-Taking Sources: Michael Slaughter, Larry Osborne, and George Barna

  2. Issues of innovation • Introducing vs. Implementing • America good at introducing innovation, Japan better at developing apps • Prioritizing among multiple innovations

  3. Top-rated Ministry Innovations in last 25 years (www.barna.org ) • A/V technology in worship • Music/arts in worship • Ministry emphasis • Gift-based service • Computerization and internet applications • Ministry philosophy and models • Seeker-driven

  4. Are these new ideas? • Rarely! • Recoveries of old ideas • Ecclesiastes: “there is nothing new under the sun” • ie. Priesthood of believers leading to gift-based ministries

  5. Postmodern ministry models Senior ministry to boomers Multi-cultural ministries Technology for global missions Pastoral training process From seminary to field-based Congregational connectivity From denomination to city-reaching Six Emerging Innovations

  6. Diffusion of Innovation • Awareness • Interest • Consideration of benefits • Trial • Experiment, tinkering • Decision • Where $ gets involved • Adoption

  7. How People Adopt New Ideas(… and the church is slower than the culture!)

  8. Traits of Innovators • Curiosity • Self-confidence • Courage • Dissatisfaction with current models • Mental perseverance • Future-orientation

  9. Best-Practices of Innovators • Insight • The ability to mentally model outcomes of alternatives • Courage • Willingness to take on calculated risk • This is why they hate committees! • Flexibility • Willing and able to make mid-course corrections • They never fall in love with their first draft

  10. Smart Innovators and Riskers … • Deal with more in social situations than they do in formal presentational contexts • Where resistance is more formal, stiff, and unbreakable

  11. Innovation Attracts Things • Creative people • Excitement • Quality enhancement • Resources • Image enhancement • “Movement” (a life of its own) • It also attracts: • risk • the chance of being drawn off-track • criticism

  12. Igniters, Accelerators, Idea-KillersLarry Osborne, www.northcoastchurch.com • There are 2 Igniters • Personal Passion • “why can’t it be done this way?” • Organizational Problems • “let’s try harder” vs. “try something else”

  13. 5 Accelerators • Clear mission and values • Helps you to know what “fits” • “mission creep” (Y.M.C.A.) • Bias for action • Vs. a bias for “study” • Permission-granting vs. permission-withholding (“let’s study it more”) • A respected champion • Holds off middle-adopters from premature closeout

  14. 5 Accelerators • Planning in pencil • Organizational mindset to considered experimentation • Hint: don’t baptize new ideas with Bible verses to get buy-in! • Viable exit strategy • Most start-ups fail; do you know where the back door is? • Rule of thumb: add new things rather than changing old things

  15. 5 Idea-Killers • Past failures • Surveys • Surveys: there was no market for minivan, fax, or microwave • Group-think • Ideas entrusted to groups often move towards harmony and the least-objectionable (weakest) idea • Individuals innovate; groups critique and mediate

  16. 5 Idea-Killers 4. Cultural disconnect • Importing Willow/Saddleback uncritically • Past success • Some things that used to work well no longer work in a newer day • Peter Drucker: “If it ain’t broke, fix it!” • Starbucks: doing things they said they would never, ever do

  17. Building a Risk-Taking ClimateMichael Slaughter, www.ginghamsburg.org • First, start with a focused-faith picture. • “In the last days, God says, ‘I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams.” -- Acts 2:17

  18. Then, move with Courage. “”Get yourself ready! Stand up and say to them whatever I command you. Do not be terrified by them, or I will terrify you before them.” -- Jeremiah 1:17 “willingness to risk the call to transform the community” “We walk by faith, not by sight.” -- 2 Corinthians 5:7

  19. Next, begin to reward risks. • When people act out of personal passions or callings (instead of committee assignment), highlight and celebrate that.

  20. Have your boards move from being permission-giving to becoming “obstacle-removing” Financial Facility Staffing Have your board become “experts in the future” Well-versed in emerging postmodern culture Begin to redefine boards and structures. If you can change your board culture, you can change the church culture

  21. Finally, maintain personal moral and spiritual momentum (“drive”) Devotion to God Read for life-long learning Invest in key relationships • Family first, then leader board Vision for the future • Spend daily time visioning Exercise for life

  22. Cultivating Courageous Innovation and Risk-Taking Dr. John P. Chandler The Ray and Ann Spence Network for Congregational Leadership www.rasnet.org John.chandler@vbmb.org Copy right John P. Chandler, 2007

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