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What are you training your coaches to do?  Have you trained them?  Or is it every man for himself?
I’ve found there are four key questions that every coach should be asking.  Here they are:

What is the best thing that happened in your group meeting this week? (Praise) Notice that it’s not a question about numbers.  [...]

When you meet with a personal trainer one of the first things they ask you is what do you wish was different?  They may phrase it a lot of different ways, but essentially they’re asking, “Where do you see that you need to change in order to be healthy?”
What if you taught your leaders to [...]

We talked about using a small group agreement in a recent article.  One of the reasons I recommend using an agreement in a group is that it provides an easy way to begin talking about two very important values in group life.  Rotating facilitators and host homes are two significant predictors of groups that thrive.  [...]

Reminder: Two of my core assumptions are (1) if I want to make it possible for everyone to be part of a group, I need to lower the bar for leaders (and raise the bar for coaches and coaching) and (2) part of lowering the bar for leaders is that I need to provide material [...]

“I can’t find enough leaders to take care of the number of people who want to be in a group.”
“Many of the people with the most potential to lead are just sitting in groups as members and won’t leave to start a new group.”

Sound familiar?  Those are two of the most common complaints of small [...]

One of the most important ingredients in group life is a small group agreement or covenant.  It doesn’t have to be complicated.  It can be a pre-printed handout (or download) or you can simply offer a set of guidelines and ask each group to write their own.  I’ve found an agreement to be very helpful [...]