Team Leading
When we consider spiritual leadership we typically focus on the spiritual qualities of a leader and ignore the skills that facilitate effective leadership. You’ll find resources for spiritual development elsewhere on this site; here you’ll find articles dealing specifically with the practices and principles of leadership. While helpful to anyone, these articles are essential to those who provide leadership to a Campus Crusade ministry. Full-time Campus Directors can find additional support and resources at Missional Team Leaders.
Missional Objectives
Changed Lives, Gospel Experiences, Mobilized Laborers, Missional Teams and Christlike Leadership. This article describes what we seek, how we measure, and what we’re...
Missional Team Leader Job Description
“OK, so I’m an MTL. What do I do now?” Here’s your official job description, buddy. Now get to work.
Position Focus for New Staff
If you have new Cru staff on your team, use this document to help them understand their job description.
Ministering to Your Team
Any team leader who wants to have a ministry of multiplication will be committed to ministering to his staff team, making it his number one priority.
Leading a Team of Learners
A learning team is needed when the objectives are so huge that they require the full contribution of everyone. This article helps describes how to develop a team of...
Vision Leaks
Vision doesn’t stick; it doesn’t have natural adhesive. Instead, vision leaks. A classic article by Andy Stanley.
Building Effective Teams
A great introduction to building a high performance team, the stages in the life of a team, and the importance of goals in light of the mission.
Stages of Leadership Development
Leaders develop over time and in recognizable stages. Use this article to diagnose what stage you are currently in.
Movement Building and the Four Aims
Here is a clear picture of what it means to grow where you are and go where you aren’t.
Empowering Staff Through Staff Jobs
How to challenge and develop your staff team (and make your role as an MTL a lot less burdensome).
Seven Habits of Team Leaders
Leadership principles gleaned from the book “Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.”
Leading and Results
Why results (and thus, stats) are significant in the role of a leader.
Writing a Personal Development Plan
How and why to craft a Personal Development Plan.
Six Common Errors in Strategic Planning
An extremely helpful article to help any team avoid common mistakes in developing a strategic plan. Have your team read this before entering the strategic planning...
Simple Crisis Response
Steps to follow, as a Missional Team Leader, in the event of a local crisis.
The Chicago Agreement
This document, an update of the Trail West Agreement, is an agreement between various campus ministries on how to operate in unity and cooperation on colleges across the...
CRU: Joining in God’s Story
Have you ever needed to explain the essence of our movement to a new student, faculty member, or potential donor? This article, adapted from a document written by the...
The Strategic Planning Process
Following a planning process ensures that important factors, resources, goals, and information are not overlooked, and that all relevant data is taken into account. This...
Defining Our Cause
A clear, concise summary of the mission, vision, and values of the Campus Ministry.
The First Two Weeks on Campus
Beginning of the year ‘rush’ is not just for Fraternities and Sororities. In the first few weeks on campus your ministry needs to be highly visible in order to...
Ministries and Movements
There is an important difference between running a ministry and leading a dynamic, spiritual movement. This article defines that difference and describes the critical...
What an Effective Leader Knows
Eric Swanson simplifies the role of a ministry leader to just a handful of never-changing principles and practices.
Nine Principles for the First Six Weeks
The first six weeks of the school year are the most critical. Here are nine principles to live, work, and pray by in that first month and a half.
The Scope of Our Mission
As they say, aim at nothing and you’ll hit it every time. This article defines the scope of our mission as the Campus Ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ—our...
Cycles of Campus Momentum
All times of the school year are not equal. Certain periods of the semester are better for outreach and some are better for discipleship. This article outlines these...
Planning the Campus Year
This article provides an overview of the critical activities that need to take place in the ministry and where, within the campus calendar, they need to be scheduled.
The Work of the Ministry
As we engage in ministry, the Scriptures state that we are ‘co-laboring’ with Christ. This assumes that there is a ‘labor’ to ministry, and that at times the...
The Art of Delegation
Successful leadership is contingent upon successful delegation. Yet there is a right way and wrong way to pass along responsibility. This article contains some helpful...
Spiritual Leadership
In this article, Eric Swanson captures the most important components of what it means to be a godly, Spirit-filled, servant leader.
Reaching Freshmen
In the unique world of campus ministry nothing is more strategic than reaching the freshman class with the gospel. This article focuses on the ‘how’s’ and...
Evaluating Your Ministry
It’s difficult to know the next steps God has for your ministry without taking time to do a proper evaluation of the last semester or past year. This article provides...
The Leadership Model
While we are not grooming CEOs to take over Fortune 500 companies, we do hope to see every leader within Campus Crusade develop in their leadership skills and capacity....
Forming a Leadership Team
As a leader there is only one thing you absolutely must do and that’s to gather other leaders. God does not intend for you to do all the work of the ministry alone....
Cultivating a Vision For My Campus
A helpful worksheet for reflecting upon what God wants to do on your campus in and through your ministry this year.
Community, Cause, and Corporation
Do you think of your ministry as a family? A cause? A team? An army? The truth is, a local body of believers may have analogous qualities to all of these structures....
Coaching Multiple Movements
Few people are gifted enough to lead several ministries simultaneously, but just about anyone can learn to coach multiple ministries. This article explains how to equip...
Catching and Casting a Vision
Vision is what leaders use to inspire others, painting a portrait of a desirable future that compels others to action. This article explains how to cast vision within...
Being an Effective Team Coach
Working off the metaphor of a football coach, Eric Swanson draws some insightful parallels between coaching an athletic team and coaching a ministry team.
Effective Problem Solving
This article explains a simple model that a leadership team can use to solve problems.The model is called PrEFACE: define PRoblem; Establish criteria; state the Facts;...
Building Movements on a Staffed Campus
Jim Sylvester shares his considerable wisdom in what it takes to build a thriving movement on a Staffed Campus.
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