• Are we a team?
• Four different types of teams in SEND
  • The basketball type of team on the mission field
  • The track team on the mission field
  • The X-team on the mission field
  • The combo team on the mission field
• Not Every Team is the Same > this document describes the 4 teams above in point form
• FER Teaming statement.pdf developed by SEND in Far East Russia
• Teaming in SEND North
• Teaming in Spain

• Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page by Larry Osborne. Larry Thiessen recommends this book and says, “This book focuses on how to keep your leadership team and staff on the same page. It gives very practical advice to church boards or leadership teams on how to build and maintain unity as well as explaining some of the growing pains of a leadership team that can cause disunity.”
• The Performance Factor: Unlocking the Secrets of Teamwork by Pat MacMillan It's a great book on teamwork that could greatly impact your ability to lead a team.
• The Ideal Team Player by Patrick Lencioni > Team Building, Leadership, Communication Skills, Good Recruiting.
• Moving from I to We by Paul Ford >Team building, Leadership, Discipleship
• Sacred Siblings: Valuing One Another for the Great Commission by Sue Eenigenburg and Suzy Grumelot. Recommended by Donna Macomber and Dorothy Janzen. Dorothy says, “Single men and women continue to make significant contributions to global missions. Sacred Siblings addresses the importance of understanding one another as singles and marrieds working together for the sake of the Kingdom. Through careful research, Sue and Suzy provide practical suggestions for healthy working relationships, bringing greater value to our single colleagues!”

Some practical help for cross-cultural teams designed by David Sedlacek, a missionary with TEAM.

• Six questions for healthy teams
  • Mission: Why are we a team?
  • Goals: What will we do?
  • Roles: What do I do? What do my teammates do?
  • Communication: How do we relate to each other?
  • Decision-making: How do we make decisions?
  • Conflict: How do we handle conflict?
• Team Health Check-up
• Profile of a Healthy Team * Trust > mutual vulnerability
  • Communication > healthy conflict
  • Commitment > mutual accountability
  • Purpose > Operational goals
• Team Charter Guide
• Team Charter Template
• Doctrine and Philosophy Alignment on a team

• Keys to Strong Teams> PowerPoint by Ken Guenther adapted from PP by Frank Severns. See also Keys to Strong Teams in Russian.
• Good Teams, Bad Teams: Under What Conditions Do Missionary Teams Function Effectively? > article by David R. Dunaetz
• Kinlaw's BROKEN-LINK:Pillars of Commitment LINK-BROKEN
• What strong teams have in common (Gallup Management Journal)
• BROKEN-LINK:Belbin Team Roles LINK-BROKEN > an assessment tool that looks at team roles. We have used it with the International Leadership Team. It is a little pricey but gives great insight into the different roles that team members play.
• Understanding Yourself > links to a variety of self-assessment tools

• TEAM COVENANT sample 1.docx
• TEAM COVENANT sample 2.docx
• TEAM COVENANT sample.docx
• Ministry Team Charter Template.docx
• A book by Patrick Lai that talks about the importance of team covenants - Tentmaking: The Life and Work of Business as Missions

• A Tale of Three Team Leaders (simulation game) (created by Ted & Wendy Szymczak) - used at 2013 Ukraine annual conference by Alfie Mosse.
• The Wilderdom index to group activities, games, exercises and initiatives
• Teampedia Tools for Teams

• Building Teams, building walls > an article in the Evangelical Missions Quarterly arguing that teams are the new missionary compounds.
• Are we a team? > a blog article by Ken Guenther.
• Can we put too much emphasis on healthy teams? > a blog article by Ken Guenther.

• See this wiki page

See wiki page on this topic.

• Building Trust on a Team > list of discussion questions, activities and resources put together by Ken Guenther. References many of the articles below.
• The #1 Essential for your ministry team > article by Robert Crosby
• The SPEED of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything a book by Stephen M. R. Covey. Summarized by David Mays on his web site.
• Discussion guide from FER > on the topic of building trust on a ministry team, with a comparison of teams that have trust and those that don't.
• Team-building activities that build trust and interdependence > from MindTools
• A trust survey which has been used by our Macedonia field in 3 successive years. This survey was adapted from Covey's book, The Speed of Trust. The two survey files are pretty much the same, with one being for self and the other being for the team or the Ministry Leadership Team for the area. The Macedonia area did both of these the first year, and then each year after that they just did the team survey.
  • Team trust survey
  • Self-trust survey
• The Currency of Trust: the difference between flourishing and floundering.
• Understanding the Trust Equation > (Credibility + Reliability + Intimacy) / Self-orientation = Trustworthiness. See also The Trust Quotient and the Science Behind It, explaining the implications of this equation
• The Four Trust Principles > A focus on the other, a collaborative approach, medium-to-long-term relationship perspective, and a habit of being transparent
• Trust on multi-cultural teams - see page on multi-cultural teams

• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni
• Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Field Guide for Leaders, Managers, and Facilitators (J-B Lencioni Series) also by Patrick Lencioni
• Kindle highlights of Five Dysfunctions by Dave Brubacher.
• Diagram explaining the 5 dysfunctions
• Ministry Team Diagnostics > How to avoid the 5 most common dysfunctions of a ministry team an article by Nancy Ortberg
• Other products from Pat Lencioni and the Table group to be used in training and assessing your team regarding the five dysfunctions