Culture Development Playbook for Church Leaders

Culture is difficult to define but easy to feel, and it’s hard to overestimate the role culture plays in your team’s health and efficiency.

A healthy culture can help turbocharge your vision and make progress toward the calling that God has for your church. On the other hand, an unhealthy team culture will actually erode your vision and derail your strategy.

There are countless benefits of healthy team culture.

• It reduces turnover.
• It raises staff satisfaction.
• It attracts the right people.
• It minimizes sideways energy.
• It allows your team to be high-performing.

Unfortunately, culture is often pushed to the side because it isn’t seen as “urgent” or directly related to the accomplishing of ministry goals. It’s a long term play that gets pushed to the background in the midst of the tyranny of the urgent.

We developed a culture playbook based on Sun Valley’s Leadership Culture Guides.