How We Make Decisions

While our organizational chart provides clarity as to the managerial reporting relationships between our staff and the main areas of responsibility, it doesn’t actually reveal how we desire to make decisions as an organization on a consistent basis.

The best decisions emerge from collaborative teams where the best idea in the room wins — regardless of title, seniority, or the number of letters behind someone’s name. Healthy teams consistently generate the kinds of debates and discussions that surface the best ideas! A well-led and focused meeting agenda can help foster effective team discussions at every meeting.

As a result, we aim for a culture that emphasizes healthy teams because the best ideas almost always require compromise. Compromise and complexity also require extra effort to communicate well — because the best ideas can’t be finalized until everyone exercises their right to information, input, approval, or oversight as detailed in the 5 Levels of Authority & Communication grid.

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Agenda - Sample team meeting agenda

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For more info, check out our: Team Meeting Agendas page!

5 Levels of Authority & Communication

Despite our best efforts to make the best decisions collaboratively with healthy teams, miscommunication happens when we wrestle through complex decisions that impact so many. Staff rarely revolve around losing a specific decision; frustration stems from a lack of proper involvement in the process.

Properly involved decision-making happens:

in an appropriate way
at an appropriate time

<aside> <img src="/icons/thought_gray.svg" alt="/icons/thought_gray.svg" width="40px" /> “Clarity is kindness.” – Brené Brown

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How We Work

We believe that healthy teams make good decisions, get great things done, and enjoy one another in the process of serving Jesus and collaborating in kingdom work together.

As a multi-site church with multiple campuses, we experience unity around our common mission to make disciples and multiply churches, as well as diversity with our unique facilities, constituencies, and even ministry strategies. Unity and diversity often create tension as we work together, and a clear understanding of all our different teams’ roles helps us keep our love for one another fervent.

Campus Teams

Each Campus Team is the ultimate responsible authority for the ministry at their campus. Collaboration across campuses energizes and enhances our ministries and events. We encourage collaboration because it represents one of the greatest values of being a multi-site church.

Leadership Teams

A series of different Leadership Teams combine key personnel from Campus and System Teams in order to fulfill key organizational purposes.

Vision Team shapes church-wide future vision, direction, and long-term priorities.