One of the cool things about blogging having the ability to see the search terms people used to find your blog. Daily Kingdom in the Midst gets hits from all over the world, many finding old articles, and some finding images I have used in posts. One of the most popular searches leading to this blog is “presidential seal,” which leads to this post from a few years ago. I also get a lot of hits from people researching Haiti, foreign aid and a poem by Mother Teresa (discovered today by a searcher from Armenia). Today I had the strangest search phrase ever to lead a person to my blog. Here it is in full: you will write a five-page argument on same sex marriage. controversial topics are often what people look for to write about, but using local issues, issues you are familiar with, or issues less controversial (whether to use a real christmas tree or a fake one, for example) work just as well. sometimes using less controversial topics are easier to work with than highly charged topics, but in any case, choose a topic you already know something about. the focus here will be on how well you can pr It sure looks like a student copied and pasted their entire homework assignment into a search bar and went for it. I sure hope they found something they could use.
Six reasons to have regular team meetings
The current wisdom on having team meetings (staff meetings) is generally dependent on the timeframe of current. Thoughts in 2012 different than in the 1990s than in the 1950s. Does it matter whether you have regular meetings of your direct reports, or should you just “hire the best and turn them loose”? I have been in a number of different staffing situations during my various careers. I was on a team of package delivery personnel, was the single paid staff member at a small church, served on the pastoral leadership team at a mega-church, was a part-time pastor at a mission church, led a team of pastors and support staff at a medium sized church and currently work as a member of a small team in a much larger company. Having done some things right and some things wrong over the years, here are six reasons why I think it important to have regular team meetings.