Communication is simply sharing information from one person to another person or to a group of individuals. It sounds easy, but its not always. I think that’s one of the things I love about CM…the challenge of successful communication!
As a CM person, I’ve noticed that (as a whole) we don’t seem to evaluate how we communicate very well. It’s not intentional, I think we just tend to get overwhelmed how many people we have to communicate with and how quick that needs to happen.
Our goal becomes to simply get the information out there quickly and keep up with the flow (because CM moves fast)! We forget that its not just what we say, but how we say it that matters. But that’s really hard…you know?
Successful communication takes work and patience. We have to be willing to listen more than talk, because if we don’t know where the people are & what they ‘get’ how do we know how well we are communicating?
So I thought we could begin to create some un-official questions we can ask ourselves to evaluate how we are doing with our communication. I’ll start and then you guys can add your amazing questions to complete the list (and make it much smarter than mine)… 
- Do we teach many things on Sunday or stick to driving home one key teaching point?
- Do we ONLY send weekly mass emails to volunteers and get frustratred when they don’t show on Sunday?
- Do we have term/names for things in our ministry that no one in the church knows but us?
- If we were to ask our volunteers (small group, media, acting, etc.) and/or staff, “what is the goal…the main thing…for Sunday?”…could they tell us?
I know that’s only a few but I am more curious about the questions you guys would add to this list. Ok, now you GO…what questions would you add? How can we become even better communicators in CM?
SIDE NOTE: Tomorrow there WILL be a JUICE challenge! Tell all your friends and DON’T miss it!
May 29th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Are we effectively communicating to the church as a whole a CM vision that attracts potential gifted volunteers and gets them excited about CM, not merely “guilted” into helping out?
Are we on the same page as the senior pastor/leadership team when it comes to the vision of the church? (or Do the goals and vision of the CM match the goals and vision of the church as a whole?)