In Building Your Ministry Teams

Avoid These Common Pitfalls

Avoid these pitfalls

1. Drafting or choosing team members without any thought as to whether they want to be on the team or will play an active role.

Avoid these pitfalls

2. Throwing a group of people together and declaring that the result is a team.

Avoid these pitfalls

3. Appointing yourself the

team leader.

Avoid these pitfalls

4. Placing your favorite employee or volunteer on the team because you like her/him and get along well with her/him or, she/he will be sure to do what you want.

Avoid these pitfalls

5. Demanding that the team do it your way.

Avoid these pitfalls

6. Requiring team members to function on the team using their job titles as power

symbols.

Avoid these pitfalls

7. Giving the team its operating charter. Rather, let the team develop its own charter for reaching its goals.

Avoid these pitfalls

8. Setting out individual roles on the team in advance. Rather, let the team establish its own responsibilities for its work plan.

What -- Why –How in that order.

Avoid these pitfalls

9. Not learning from your mistakes. You will repeat them and destroy the team’s morale.

Avoid these pitfalls

If you avoid these 9 common pitfalls in forming your team, you will be on the road to having a successful team. The team may stumble through a project, but the talents and well-being of its members will not be sacrificed and it will be ready for the next task.