Teamwork

Conversations on Teamwork with the Collegiate Executive Team

Noah Haas, Melissa Nugent, Ben Nugent, Deb Proctor  Hosted by Norm Hubbard  A good team can make or break your experience of job and ministry.  During the Navigators National Collegiate Conference in 2021, Norm Hubbard interviewed the Collegiate Executive Team about some of their thoughts on teaming. Ben and Melissa

Flipping the Map

“If you flip the map over, you’ll get a bigger picture of where we are,” I suggested to my teammate. His response? “I actually like to only look at the little square.” Surprised, I mentioned that he might be missing out on a lot by seeing only one piece of

Teamwork According to Ants

Go to the ant, you sluggard;  consider its ways and be wise!  It has no commander,  no overseer or ruler,  yet it stores its provisions in summer  and gathers its food at harvest.  Proverbs 6:6-8  A friend and I were talking about working with others. I wasn’t at all surprised

Teaming in the Cities: An Interview with Patriece Johnson

Why is a team important to the mission of your city team?  Teams are important because there are so many aspects of ministering in the city context that one person will miss. We have some amazing leaders on campus and they have a unique skill set that allows them to

Teamwork

My idea of teaming was significantly impacted when I read the first four words of I and II Thessalonians: Paul, Silas and Timothy. Three individuals with decades of shared experience were writing a letter as a ministry team.  For 47 years, I have served with ministry teams on college campuses

A Whole Lotta VUCA

In the mid-80s, the Army War College developed a term to describe the global environment at the end of the Cold War.  I use it in our household to describe ever increasing amounts of chaos, looking to my husband and stating with a knowing look, “That’s a whole lotta VUCA.” 

Eight Hours of Sleep

A colonel I knew said that when he was deployed to Afghanistan as a battalion commander, he made sure to get the best sleep of anyone in his unit. That seemed odd—shouldn’t he have worked longer and harder, sacrificing his rest for the sake of his soldiers? But he had

Presence: Face to Face

I survived two years as an EDGEr, an overseas mission trip to Norway, and most of my dating relationship with my now-wife, Heather—all without a cell phone. Shocking, right? What does it mean for us to be really present with each other?

Strength in Masculinity

On Halloween, my kids excitedly put on their costumes to run house to house for their annual candy-induced sugar high. My four-year-old son wore a full knight costume, complete with helmet, shield, and shining silver sword. Inside this little boy lived a mighty warrior ready for battle. But what did this young knight do first? He poked his two-year-old sister with his plastic sword!