Pete Wilson - Creating a Staff Culture - ReThink Leadership 2016

Pete Wilson is the founding and senior pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee. He spoke at one of the breakouts at ReThink Leadership about what it means to create a great staff culture in your Church. Here are the notes from that session.

• If you want me to defend something, you have to first define it.

3 Reasons why defining culture is important

• they should be different than Church Values

1. If you don’t define it, it’s going to get hijacked
2. It leads to healthier hires in your organization (Character, Contempency, Chemistry and even Culture)
3. You can create a value to strengthen a weakness (all of your leadership dysfunction is going to seep down)

3 things to keep in mind when creating Staff Values

1. They need to be sticky.
2. Icons help
3. Make them visible in every staff environment

What do you think about creating a positive staff culture in your church or ministry?

Pete Wilson - Orange Conference 2016

Pete Wilson is the founding and senior pastor of Cross Point Church in Nashville, Tennessee, a committed church community that has grown to reach more than 7,000 people each weekend through its five locations.  

• Sometimes I forget how good it is to get together and fellowship with other pastors.
• What is most important – winning or not looking like an idiot?
• I’ve spent way to much of my ministry hedging on steps of faith.
• My entire ministry comes down to winning people for Jesus or not looking like an idiot.
• So much of my ministry has been driven by my fear of failure.
• Regret stings a lot more than failure.
• My fear is we’re going to spend a lot of time thinking about what we should’ve done.
• Inside of every leader there is belief and doubt. The difference is what are you going to choose to act on?
• I’ve not sensed any moment where I couldn’t do this.
• I am passionate about ministry. I’m passionate about my family. I’m passionate about fun things to do. 
• I speak live six times on Sunday. I could speak seven but my limit is six.
• Make sure we have fun with each other and don’t lose our families in the process.
• I like to avoid conflict.