Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

86 • P LANTING C HURCHES AMONG THE C ITY ’ S P OOR : V OLUME 2

b. On-the-spot feedback, encouragement, instruction, and suggestions from both leaders and other team members

c. Clear sense of the task and ability to carry it out

5. The opposite of Implementation is poor performance .

6. The result of not implementing strategies is no accomplishment of team goals .

D. The Golden Key: Empower each member to do their job, and hold them accountable to do it.

VIII. Provide leadership and oversight to every dimension of team effort: The Principle of COORDINATION.

A. Key Scripture: 1 Cor. 12.15-27

B. Definition of the Concept

1. “To bring the efforts of the various team members into a synchronized, purposeful, and harmonized movement through mutual support and careful oversight” 2. Coordination is the act where members learn to function and operate their particular roles alone and together in such a way that the entire team prospers and succeeds. 1. This is synonymous with a kind of coaching that orchestrates (not dominates) the activities and efforts of the team towards its predetermined goals. 2. Coordination is coaching, and as such, it helps to establish and maintain the team members in both mutual and reciprocal relation. 3. As a function of leadership, coordination attempts to keep all team activities in essential relation to each other lest team members operate separately as unattached units.

C. The Principle Explained

4. How it functions