The Productive Pastor

How well are your sermons planned for 2024? I'm working on mine in the same way I have for years.  Here's how I am doing it.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email L...

So what do you want out of 2024? That's a big question.  Specific outcome + tangible actions = transformation I love that mental model. So let's apply it into planning for our ministry year.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube...

Do you ever get in a funk? In this episode, I share 4 ways to get out of work funks.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List |   https://bit.ly/PPemailList The 5...

So how do you work sermon preparation in around the ups and downs of a ministry schedule?  You prep to preach!  In this episode I share the things I have learned over the last 15 years to develop efficency in both presentation and preparation.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor...

How often do you think about follow-up sequences in church? Sure, we want to follow up with guests. But what about a few other things? In this episode, I go into how we can think through follow-up using 3 different levels of belonging and how it helps us to strategize.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/Productiv...

Ministry weeks are all different. But I think the majority of them can fall into three different categories. The normal week, the light week, and the different week. Let's unpack them all and what it takes to do them well.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://...

What role do our values play in decision making? The better we know ourselves, the better (and easier) decisions will be. Especially the tough ones.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube P...

No secret.  I am a massive fan of the cliftonstrengths assessment. I have been for a long time, but a few years ago it began to shift in both it't importance and how I use it.  Here are 5 ways it helps me enhance my productivity AND keep me doing so in a healthy way.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePas...

What is my absolute basic productivity stack? Three things. And they have been at the core of my system for pushing 20 years.  Grab the shownotes | bit.ly/prodpastor75 Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevC...

Back this week with an episode from the vault. From 2014-2019, Productive Pastor released 100 episodes. Since I have been FULL this week, I'm pulling out a great episode from those archives and sharing it with you.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi...

Are you a serial procrastinator? (my hand raises). I've been putting off a few different things and I had to get myself in gear this week. Here is how we can face the fear, bite the head off the frog, and get after it.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://sp...

Does the perfect ministry week exist?  I don't think so. This is a fluid life and our expectations are much better when we...well, expect it. What I want to share with you in this episode is the idea of how we can begin thinking of tasks in terms of layers. Like an upside down wedding cake, our time and focus exists in certain ways.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscr...

Do you learn from courses? Whether it is a technical challenge, or an adaptive one, I think courses are a great way to increase our learning and get over ministry walls. But one of the tough pieces of online learning is actually developing our own learning plan. In this episode, I share some of why I love courses and I give 4 tips towards how to approach a course to learn as much as we can.  Work...

How do you kick off your mornings? Is it hectic?  Let's talk about a quick paradigm to help you build a healthy morning routine.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor E...

We've all been there. That moment of fear and anxiety that we've got too much on our plate. In this episode I want to walk through 4 ways to think through our mess of a schedule and come out on the other side.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT...

Are you starting seminary this fall? One of the things I have always wanted to do is an episode specifically about productivity tips for seminary students!     Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrook...

Learning is an interesting thing. Especially when we hit a ministry wall and realize we need to grow in our understanding of something. This episode is a conversation about how we might learn to do something new.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3...

Sometimes you just a few hacks. Here are 7 ways I found to create mental space AND a better approach to productivity Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List |   h...

So what can a trained language AI do for your sermon/ The folks at PulpitAI have already proven it can do a lot.  In this episode I talk with Michael Whittle about how they want to help the average pastor lead and disciple folks in their congregation better with AI.    Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePa...

So how can AI be part of your ministry?  I know people get nervous about AI writing sermons, or somehow taking over the world. I'm taking a different approach, and finding ways it can make things easier for me in order to have more time for healthy ministry.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Produ...

So what secrets about your understanding of work can your schedule tell you? Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit.ly/RevChadBrooksYouTube Productive Pastor Email List |   https://bit.ly/PPemailList The 5/15 |   h...

So how do you start your day?  Those handful of decisions we make can either be natural, or intentional. Here is my framework for mornings and how I leverage them to help create the best version of myself.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf...

So how do you keep yourself focused? The basic elements of my approach to ministry productivity are two systems; working and keeping. Let's get into a basic approach to them.  Work With Chad https://bit.ly/CoachingWithChad Listen and Subscribe to Productive Pastor on iTunes |   https://bit.ly/ProductivePastor Productive Pastor on Spotify |   https://spoti.fi/3oIT5gf Chad on YouTube |   https://bit...

Hey Friends -  Last episode was the What and Why of Assimilation systems. And if I'm honest, I think I left you hanging. As I prep out for the future Trello course, I went into the archives to find this old interview from back in 2017 of the assimilation system we built out at a previous church...and it is gold. Rather than put this behind a paywall, I want to share it with you!  Work With Chad ht...