Week 3: Scaling Culture and Processes

Gathering type: Large Group, IN-PERSON

Podcast: At The Table with Patrick Lencioni 

Episode: “The Growth Curve” 

Description: Lencioni emphasizes that avoiding pain at the expense of your core values and purpose is a terrible idea, underscoring the importance of clarity and value alignment through growth phases. 

Discussion Questions:

1. What stood out to you about the idea of the growth curve? 
2. How do New Life's strategies reflect our values? 
3. Where might culture get lost as we grow? 
4. What’s one way you can embed values in systems? 
5. How do you discern what's a distraction vs a viable strategic change? 

Required Reading: Good To Great, Chapter 3

Discussion Questions:

1. When you think about building a team or ministry, what do you instinctively prioritize first - having a clear vision or having the right people? Why do you think that is?

2. In your context, what actually defines the “right person”? What matters more—skill, character, chemistry, calling, or something else?

3. What are the real consequences (for the team, the mission, and you as a leader) of keeping the wrong person in the wrong role too long?

4. Why do you think leaders often delay or avoid necessary people decisions? Where have you seen that happen or felt that tension yourself?

5. How does your leadership style change when you truly trust that you have the right people in place?