ICYMI – January 30, 2013
If you are like me you try to read as many articles, blogs and books as possible but just cannot catch all of them. “In Case You Missed It” is my way of pointing out a few “reads” that I think are too good to miss.
What’s More Important than Vision? – RJ Grunewald
It’s common when thinking and talking about our strategies for ministry that we focus on our vision.
We focus on the preferred future we are aiming at as the new goal for our ministries. We create mission statements, vision statements and strategic plans to lay out the preferred idea for how our student ministry or congregation should progress over the next several years.
While a clear, compelling vision is certainly important, we would do much better to focus first on the people on our team and let the vision follow.
We should focus first on the who…then on the what.
Social Media at Work – INFOGRAPHIC
So, you’ve just finished a task or an assignment and figure you deserve a little mental break. Why not check Facebook or Twitter? It will only take you five minutes, right? Wrong.
As American students and workers spend more time on the Internet and on social media sites in particular, their levels of productivity are tanking. The average college student might spend three hours checking their various social media sites, but only two hours studying. That discrepancy is reflected in lower GPAs. Workers aren’t faring much better, either. Every time someone at work gets an IM, a Facebook message or a tweet, it takes them a whopping 23 minutes to get back on task. Taken all together, that costs the American economy $650 billion per year in lost productivity. The next time you think about checking a social media site, consider how much time and energy it will actually take.
