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The Worship Workshop PodcastSix Crucial Leadership Roles (And Why You Struggle with at Least Two)In this episode we’re talking about leadership—specifically the six worship leadership roles that your ministry needs. If you listened to Episode #1, which was the overview of the Healthy Ministry Framework, you’ll remember that there were three big elements of that framework that really were an equation: Engaged Team Members + Effective System xEquipped Leaders = Healthy Worship Ministry So this episode is focused on what leadership looks like within the Worship Ministry. I’m talking to Robin Walters, who’s part of our team here at WorshipTeamCoach.com and Worshi...2019-12-0246 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastThe Eight Critical Systems That Run (or Wreck) Your Worship Ministry, Part 2In the previous episode and this one, we are talking about the systems that can make your worship ministry run effectively and successfully, or run off the rails. Worship pastor, coach/trainer Peter Neumann joins us for this conversation about how to build and improve the structures and processes that make your ministry healthy and strong. It’s best if you listen to part one of this conversation before digging into this one. Episode 6: https://wshp.be/2OKaiDX Resources mentioned in this episode: Equipped: Lead, Teach & Unleash a Healthy Le...2019-11-2636 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastThe Eight Critical Systems That Run (or Wreck) Your Worship Ministry, Part 1 The Eight Critical Systems That Run (or Wreck) Your Worship Ministry, Part 1 The Eight Critical Systems That Run (or Wreck) Your Worship Ministry, Part 1Summary: In this episode and the next, we are talking about the systems that can make your worship ministry run effectively and successfully, or run off the rails. Worship pastor, coach/trainer Peter Neumann joins us for this conversation about how to build and improve the structures and processes that make your ministry healthy and strong. Resources mentioned in this episode: RENOV8 Workshop Series https://wshp.be/33Po3Y2 The SongCycle Book https://wshp.be/2qdS2dQ Worship Flow Book https://wshp.be/2...2019-11-1839 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastAaron Niequiest: Four Rocks Songs and a Hymn (Is Not Enough)In today’s episode, Jon talks with Aaron Niequist about his book The Eternal Current. Aaron Niequist is a liturgist, writer, and pastor currently living in NYC. After leading worship at Mars Hill Church (Grand Rapids, MI) and Willow Creek Church (Barrington, IL), he created A New Liturgy and a discipleship-focused, formational, ecumenical, practice-based community at Willow Creek called The Practice. Aaron recently released a book about a practice-based faith called The Eternal Current: How a Practice-Based Faith Can Save Us from Drowning, and continues to create resources to help us flesh it out. Learn mo...2019-11-0541 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastHow To Motivate Unmotivated Team MembersIn this episode, we talk about motivating your team members. You might have all-out slackers that need a kick in the tail. Or you might have solid team members who just need a little course correction. Either way, this training will give you some tools and ideas to motivate your team. This training comes from Day 9 of our Elevate Team Training Challenge, where worship leaders like you commit to building a 12-month team member training process in just 30 days. Learn more about the upcoming Elevate Challenge: https://wshp.be/2MTuCTI Join...2019-10-2826 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastThe Enneagram for Worship LeadersOn this episode, we talk with pastor and Enneagram consultant, Nate Bebout, about how the Enneagram can help you grow as a leader, as a whole person, and as a follower of Jesus. We also dig into how it help you better lead and grow your worship team. Join Us at the Live Online Training to ask Nate questions! The Enneagram for Worship Leaders Workshop Monday, November 11 at 8pm EST The On Demand version is available if you’re discovering this for the first time. Register Here: https://www.wo...2019-10-2232 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastThe Seven Subtle Stumbling Blocks for Your Worship TeamThis week, we’re continuing to talk about the Healthy Ministry Framework—specifically how critical it is to develop engaged team members. To do that, Jerimae Yoder, our Director of Coaching, and I are talking about the 7 Stumbling Blocks for Team Members. Need to learn about “The Framework?” Go to Episode 1: http://www.worshipteamcoach.com/ww01 Get access to the free 7 Stumbling Block Resource Pack on the show notes page: http://www.worshipworkshop.com/ww02 Join the new Worship Workshop Facebook group. It’s training for you and your team. And it’s FREE: http...2019-10-1053 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastFalse Beliefs Keeping You From a Stronger, Healthier Worship MinistryIn this first episode, we’re talking about The Healthy Ministry Framework. We’ll be spending much of this season talking about the three elements of a Healthy Ministry Framework. Today’s episode is an overview of it and why it’s so critical for your ministry. To explore the Framework more deeply, we focus on nine false beliefs that keep leaders from implementing a Healthy Ministry Framework. Join the new Worship Workshop Facebook group. It’s training for you and your team. And it’s FREE: http://worshipworkshop.com/facebook Be a financi...2019-10-1041 min
The Worship Workshop PodcastThe Introduction Episode: Welcome to The Worship Workshop PodcastWelcome to the new Worship Workshop Podcast. This is the introduction episode where we tell you a little bit about us and what you can expect in this first season. Here are some links from the episode: Join the new Worship Workshop Facebook group. It’s training for you and you’re team. And it’s FREE: http://worshipworkshop.com/facebook Be a financial supporter of The Worship Workshop Podcast and Facebook Group. Learn more at http://www.patreon.com/worshipteam [By the way, the first 20 supporters at $10 a month or more g...2019-10-0909 min
The Exceptional Worship Podcast028: Authority Issues Might Be Killing Your MinistryDeveloping Your Worship Team, Part 3 Submission to authority is NOT a fun topic. But if you want a healthy worship ministry—you’ve got to deal with this issue head on. Because if you have team members who won’t submit to your authority or the church’s authority, your ministry will suffer. In this training today, we are diving into the first 2 lessons from the Worship Workshop class, Healthy 201: Understanding Authority, Submission, Conflict And Confrontation. Now, that's a big pile of "loaded topics" we stacked into one class. But all these hot button iss...2017-08-0828 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast027: Developing Your Worship Team, Part 2Do your team members REALLY know how to fulfill their role as lead worshiper on the platform? And do they know how to prepare for that? And do you techs know that they ALSO play a role as lead worshipers. This episode is going to give you some practical training to help develop your team members as lead worshipers. SHOW NOTES: Today’s training comes from the first three lessons of the WorshipWorkshop.com class, Lead Worshiper 101: Lesson 0: The Introduction Lesson 1: Our Roles as Lead Worshipers Lesson 2: How To Prepare to Lead Worship Tools...2017-07-2828 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast026: Developing Your Worship Team, Part 1SHOW NOTES: Today’s training comes from the first three lessons of the WorshipWorkshop.com class, How To Be An Ideal Team Member. We look at the three virtues of an ideal team member. (Comes from the book, The Ideal Team Player, by Pat Lencioni http://amzn.to/2ucZTpu To download the training audios and slides for this episode, go here: Signup page: https://worshipworkshop.com/episode-26-free-content/ Additional Resources: The Beginners Guide To Using Pads in Worship: worshipteamcoach.com/pads Coresound Pads (https://gumroad.com/a/361837683) If you want leave a review for us on iTunes, we’d LOVE that. Please do that h...2017-07-2033 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast025: The Vocalist Episode -with Gateway's Anna Byrd and Jill BrewerShow Notes: In this episode, we interview Gateway vocalists/worship leaders Jill Brewer and Anna Byrd. We get into topics like: - Pop vocal technique - lead vocal teams - vocal health - fears and insecurities vocalists face Gateway Vocal Chart Samples (put in one pdf) About Jill Brewer: Jill and her husband, Robb, both serve on staff at Gateway church. Robb is an Executive Pastor at the Southlake Campus, and Jill is the Associate Director in Worship Development over vocal development. They have 4 kids ranging from 21-14 years old, and all 4 kids are involved in worship teams across the differe...2017-06-021h 04The Exceptional Worship PodcastWhy Discontentment Will Ruin Your Ministry and Your FamilyShow Notes: Today’s interview is with Mike Harland of LifeWay Worship. We discuss the crucial topic of discontent. It’s a slippery slope that will lead to the ruin of both your ministry and your family. Here’s more about Mike: Mike Harland grew up in Mississippi, graduated from Delta State University and New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and has led churches in worship leadership roles for most of his life. Since 2005, Mike has served as the Director of LifeWay Worship Resources, the worship and music arm of LifeWay Christian Resources. He is a published author, Dove Award winning songwrit...2017-03-1037 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast023: Diminish The DramaShow Notes: Today’s main training comes from our Director of Coaching, Jerimae Yoder. Besides being a full-time worship leader, Jerimae is an accomplished coach. He gives us some amazing insight on how to deal with tough situations that, frankly, would be easy for us blow up and make worse. You can connect with Jerimae at jerimae {at} worshipteamcoach [.] com. If you want to experience the kind of coaching that Jerimae talks about, the best (and most affordable) way to do that is through our Blueprint Session. Here’s more information: http://www.wors...2017-02-2149 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastBeing Present In The MomentFeatured Interview: Leslie Jordan with All Sons & Daughters Featured Resource: Small Church/Big Worship Coaching Group Links Poets and Saints All Sons and Daughters Album http://amzn.to/2bJ6umK Poets and Saints by Jamie George http://amzn.to/2cklROC Listen to: “Paris”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0leckSrDEhQ "Great Are You Lord" on Omaha Beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woHgfOOYzjQ How The Light Gets In by Pat Schneider http://amzn.to/2clrVco (amazon) Journey Church http://journeyfranklin.com/ Poets & Saints Curriculum: https://rivetmerch.com/collections/all-sons-and-daughters/products/poets-saints-curriculum-a-community-experience 2016-09-0244 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast021: Loving God, Loving Your Church, And How Songwriting Fits Into ThatIn this interview with Andrew Marcus, we talk about his new album, Constant, the journey to get there, and a whole bunch of other stuff. http://www.andrewmarcusmusic.com/ http://www.becrecordings.com/artists/345/Andrew_Marcus/overview/ http://twitter.com/andrewmarcus_ https://www.facebook.com/andrewmarcusmusic 2016-08-1155 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast020: How To Lead Your Team By Asking Great QuestionsShow Notes The Interview with Jerimae Yoder (Intro: 3:28 / Interview: 6:12) The Free Tool: The Great Question Cheat Sheet (47:12) Special Podcast Listener Discount for The Blueprint Session (47:27) Plugged In Moment (48:46) Free 1:1 Leadership Coaching Opportunity (55:14) The Interview Today's interview is with our very own Jerimae Yoder, Director of Coaching for WorshipTeamCoach.com. Jerimae is also the worship leader for the South Campus of The Chapel in Norwalk, OH. We talk about Jerimae's training and experience as a leadership coach (and being coached) and how asking great question...2016-05-2056 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastFive Ways To Better Lead Your Vocal TeamIn today's episode, we talk about what worship leaders can do better as they lead their vocalists.
Show Notes:
Top 5 Ways To Better Lead Your Vocal Team:
1. Provide training for your vocalists
2. Take responsibility for Growing Them
3. Be mindful of keys
4. Run Effective Rehearsals
5. Recognize Our Purpose as worship musicians
DVDs and Articles By Sheri:
DVD: Basic Vocal Technique
All DVDs
Training Vocalists Article
Improve Your Talking to Help Your Voice
...2016-03-0359 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastFour Steps To Cultivate Expressive Worship In Your ChurchSUMMARY
In this episode, we’re looking at 4 practical steps to nurture and cultivate expressive worship in your church.
OUTLINE/NOTES:
INTRO:
Cultivating biblical expression in your church is really about two things:
1) Helping people to show on the outside what’s happening on the inside.
2) helping people understand that often, our actions must precede our attitude.
So there’s a both/and when it comes to expression during worship—it allows what’s on the inside to be expressed on the outside. And it lets the ou...2016-01-2028 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast10 Tools That I Can't Live Without As A Worship LeaderIn today's podcast, I talk to you about the 10 tools (apps and such) that I love, and that make ministry easier/better.
1. EVERNOTE
I use Evernote for TONS of stuff....Sign up for Evernote for free
Sign up for Evernote for free
Evernote - you can scan copies in and store them...
You can have tons of notebooks to keep notes organized. Or just tag them...
Free is good...probably too good. You might like to have plus/premium features, too.
...2016-01-061h 08The Exceptional Worship Podcast016: Death By Announcements
Show Notes and Bonus Cheat Sheet Can Be Accessed At WorshipTeamCoach.com/016
Highlights:
Marketing defined: “Sharing what you have with who needs it most."
Getting people to listen and respond to announcements:
Storytelling and inspiration; not information
Rule of Three: You probably have more announcements than you need to share. Don’t go over three announcements.
Download the free cheat sheet:
3 Steps to More Engaging Announcements This Sunday"
Go to worshipteamcoach.com/016
Want to Get To Know Pro Church Tools? Get the "37 Tools for Creating Church Video Announcements"
http://prochurchtools.com/37-video-announcements-tools/
Brady’s site for his freelance work:
http://bradyshearer.c...2015-11-2547 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast015: The Worship Leader Hiring Process For ChurchesIn today’s interview, I talk to Tim Foot of The Slingshot Group. Slingshot Group helps churches find the right people for their ministry positions. Tim leads the Worship Arts division. He’s also the worship pastor at LifeBridge Christian Church. We talk about both his experience as a coach and as a long-time worship leader.
http://slingshotgroup.org/worship-arts/
http://christianmusiciansummit.com/
http://timfoot.com/
https://twitter.com/@realtimfoot/2015-10-0230 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastThe Six Must-Have Leadership Roles That Your Team NeedsIn this episode, we’re going to talk about the Six Must-Have Leaders That Your Team Needs. This isn’t to make you feel bad about yourself and try to find ways to work harder and be more to more people. This is really about figuring out how to do less and do it better.
What we’re looking, essentially, this is the building blocks for a Leadership Team that you can build.
To frame these Must-Have leadership roles, I’ve divided them into 3 categories -
Leading In
Leading Out
Leadin...2015-08-2024 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast013: What Your Worship Team Absolutely Needs To Know About Biblical Worship, Part 2Today we're continuing our conversation with Rob Still (RobStill.com). Rob is a worship leader, producer, songwriter teacher and author. In this episode we continue talking about what your worship team absolutely needs to know about biblical worship. During this conversation, we hone in on 7 big ideas of worship.
Words of Worship Article [Click to read article]
Resurrection Power, Rob's devotional book.2015-08-0452 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast012: What Your Worship Team Absolutely Needs To Know About Biblical Worship, Part 1Today we're talking with Rob Still (RobStill.com). Rob is a worship leader, producer, songwriter teacher and author. In this (and the next episode) we dig into the HUGE topic of Biblical Worship, narrowing in on what your worship team absolutely needs to know about it.
Which Robert Webber book would you recommend people start with?
Ancient Future Worship - Robert Webber
Words of Worship Article
[Click to read article]
CHALLLENGEAsk your team members, "What are some scriptures that teach us what worship is a...2015-07-0952 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast011: How To Lead (And Learn From) Your Sound TechToday’s Interview is with Kent Morris who is widely recognized for his church sound training abilities. He has more than 30 years of experience working with A/V, has served as a sound mixer for several noted performers, including Paul Baloche and Israel Houghton, and is a product development consultant for several leading audio manufacturers.
Here are the some of questions I ask Kent (and I even give a few of his nuggets - but you’ll want to listen for all the great stuff).
How should we view the sound tech role in the worship team?
"The sound tech is the on...2015-04-0941 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastEpisode 010: What’s Missing From Your Worship Team?What’s one crucial leadership position that’s missing from most worship teams?
In this episode, I’m interviewing Jack Daniels who is the musical director for David Phelps. We talk about what it means to be a musical director, and why it’s an important position in your worship team.
As an extremely accomplished keyboardists and worship leader, we also dive in a little to the world of leading worship from the keyboard.
There was SO much great content here that I compiled it all into a bonus pdf. It’s available for free on the show notes page - http://www.wors...2015-03-2343 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastEpisode 009: The 3 Gs of Arranging, Part 2Introduction: Review the 3 Gs:
- Groove
- Glue
- Grace
3 Ways to Approaching Arranging with the 3 Gs:
1. Create
2. Duplicate
3. Approximate
Links
Link to Episode 008 to Download Graphics - http://www.worshipteamcoach.com/blog/2015/02/20/008-the-3-gs-of-arranging-how-to-easily-arrange-for-any-size-band-part-1
Places to Purchase Guide/Enhancement Tracks:
Loop Community.com http://loopcommunity.com/
Multitracks.com http://www.multitracks.com/
PraiseCharts http://www.praisecharts.com/
Musicademy’s Back Band - http://www.musicademy.com/multitrack-backing-tracks/
Band in Hand - https://www.worshipbandinhand.com/2015-02-2532 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastEpisode 008: The 3 Gs of Arranging, Part 1Outline:
Intro - What Happens If We Don’t Arrange? The Blob of Sound
Arranging Defined
The Sonic Spectrum
The Rhythmic Spectrum
1. Groove
The idea of groove is like the tracks that we ride on. Groove is made up by two elements: the Foundation and the Rhythm.
- Typical ways bands create the groove
- Small band ideas for creating the groove
- Rookie Mistakes when it comes to the groove
2. Glue
The glue is the “middle stuff” that holds the song together. There are two elements that make up the glue:
- The Pad or Constant
- The Lead
- Typical ways b...2015-02-2059 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast007: 5 Tips To Handle Late Team Members5 Tips To Handle Late Team Members
Introduction
Why lateness is killing your team:
Wasted Rehearsal Time
Disrespect of Other Team Members
Weak Way To Start Rehearsal
Diminishes Promptness in Other Team Members
Erodes Other Essential Team Habits
5 Techniques To Change The Culture of Lateness:
1. Leader: Be Early & Leave Margin
2. Start On Time…No Matter What
3. Change Your Language
4. Confront, But Assume the Best
5. Apply Social Pressure
Two Bonus Issues:
1. What do we do with people who have to b...2015-02-1229 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast006: The Big Traps For Small Church Worship TeamsSmall churches are unique with their own set of worship challenges. Today we dive into the biggest traps that smaller church worship teams fall into. Here’s what we’ll be looking at:
Intro: 3 Truths About Small Churches
7 Big Traps For Small Church Worship Teams
1. Planning to Fail Trap
2. Systems that Stunt Growth Trap
3. No Real Expectation for Preparation Trap
4. Over-Compensating Trap
5. Us Four and No More Trap
6. One Size Fits all Trap
7. Comparison Trap
Additional Resources - links at ww...2015-02-0544 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast005: How to Move Our Guitarists from Adequate to ExceptionalIn today's podcast, I interview Jason Houtsma of WorshipArtistry.com. If you're not familiar with WorshipArtistry.com, you're about to find your most favorite Go-To place to train and develop your guitarists.
Here are some questions we dive into:
What are some of the common mistakes and issues you see with worship team guitarists?
What are some ways that you see WLs not leading their guitarists well? What can us worship leaders do better when it comes to leading our guitarists.
Why learn the guitar parts from the recording? Why not just make up your own part?
...2015-01-2856 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast004: 10 Tactics To Run Killer RehearsalsRehearsals are crucial for the success of the worship team. We dive into these 10 tactics to help you run not only better rehearsals, but make your team better in the process.
1. Start on time
2. Be the most prepared person in the room
3. Plan out your rehearsal
4. Separate vocalists & instrumentalists for part of the rehearsal
5. Get Tech Support
6. Listen only to new songs
7. If you're the leader, lead.
8. Don't be afraid to NOT run the whole song
9. Institute a no-noodle policy
10. Get your team in the habit of marking up their cha
At the end, we also dive into frequently asked questi...2015-01-2127 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast003: How to Make New Songs StickEver get that deer-in-headlights look from your congregation when you’re leading a new song? You can pick a great song and it will still tank. We’ll talk about five big reasons your new song isn’t working and how to make it stick.
Outline:
1. I didn’t select the right song.
2. I didn’t really sell it.
3. I didn’t really teach it.
4. I didn’t give it enough time & exposure.
5. I've introduced too many other new songs.2015-01-1414 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastEpisode 002: How To Schedule Your Way To A More Committed TeamOne of the questions I get asked all the time is "How do I get my team members to be more committed?” Believe it or not, the way you schedule plays a HUGE part in how committed your team members are.
Here’s what we’re diving into:
What are some wrong ways to try to build commitment.
Why scheduling matters
The six elements of a great schedule
The benefits: better music planning, better preparation, and higher commitment level
2015-01-0632 minThe Exceptional Worship PodcastEpisode 001: The Seven Deadly Sins of the Worship TeamDescription:
In this podcast, we look at seven "sins” of the average worship team. Call them barriers, challenges, issues, etc. Whatever you call them, they are holding back your team from being exceptional. Issues include: arranging the band, overplaying, practice and preparation issues, stage presence and expression, monitor mixes, and playing with a click.
As we discuss each one, we also look at practical tips for overcoming these sins.
Outline:
1. Blob of Sound
2. Stand Zombie Stare
3. Poor Sense of Time
4. More Me - failing to listen to each other
5. Playing the Chart, not the song
6. Set it and forget it - failing...2015-01-0538 minThe Exceptional Worship Podcast000: About The Exceptional Worship PodcastIf you’re brand new to The Exceptional Worship Podcast, welcome! This “about” episode is a great place to start. We take a few minutes to answer these questions:
Who’s Jon Nicol & WorshipTeamCoach.com
Why a podcast?
Who is this podcast for?
When does it come out? How often? How long are the episodes?
What’s the content—what will I be getting?
Why the name "Exceptional Worship"?
How can I keep up-to-date with this podcast?
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