Category Archives: Best Practice

Book: From 1 to 726 – Partners in Transformational Network

This book is for mission leaders who want to enjoy the blessing of partnership, know how to gradually develop from one partner to more than 726 partner networks, and know how to work together to complete big tasks, transform lives and understand the secret to serving your city.

How Does a Global Missions Network Engage with the Younger Generation?

How do younger leaders need to develop as disciples, followers,and leaders? How can senior leaders encourage, support, and challenge? What are some of the gaps between the generations, and how should Lausanne seek to bridge those gaps on a global scale? This article will seek to answer such questions by drawing from a number of relevant surveys…

9 Best Practices for Engagement in Virtual Meetings

Trainer, Speaker, Author, and Blogger, Beth Kanter shares a shortlist of 9 best practices for increasing your team member’s engagement and participation in your online meetings….

Tool – Liberating Structures

Liberating Structures are easy-to-learn microstructures (activities) that enhance relational coordination and trust. They quickly foster lively participation in groups of any size, making it possible to truly include and unleash everyone….

Tool – Needs, Contribution, Benefits, Risk Matrix

The Needs, Contribution, Benefit, Risk matrix helps potential or current partners clearly and transparently share their needs, identify partner contributions, individual and network benefits, and surface potential risks….

Tool – Impact Storytelling – The STAR Technique

The Arukah network uses storytelling as one of the ways that it raises awareness, inspires others, and creates change. It recommends using a “STAR” Storytelling model to create simple, high-impact stories…

Designed for Impact: How Design Thinking Helps Networks Take on Complex Challenges

Mark Avery shows how design thinking tools can help networks better understand their work’s context, increase engagement, strengthen collaboration, and improve the probability of a viable solution…

Cracking the Network Code: Four Principles for Grantmakers

The authors share four mindset shifts needed for grantmakers to be an effective network participant and offer practical recommendations for how grantmakers can support networks….

Building Powerful Partnerships

This blog post from Bekele Shanko and John Becker of GACX is written as a letter to a church planter in Europe. In it, they share five principles for starting powerful church planting partnerships…

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