You shall allow people to live in a world they create

I am honored to be featured as a guest blogger over on Steve Fogg’s blog today.  Here is an excerpt, make sure and check the whole thing out as well as the entire communication commandment’s series.

5th Commandment: You shall allow people to live in a world they help create.

The first mistake of most communications professionals is to write a policy manual.  Policies are an admission that we cannot lead and really, who reads them anyway?  In our context at Seacoast Church, a multi-site church with 13 campuses and more on the way, I have made that mistake in so many unique expressions.  Policy does not have to be in a manual.  It can be implied in a conversation, written in a hostile email, delivered through a passive aggressive remark or actually put in writing, but the end result is the same.  We are asking people to live in a world that we construct, that we do the maintenance and that we serve in the role of ruler and chief.  Here are a couple of ways to keep from paying the dumb tax I have paid over and over again:

1. Ask a lot of questions. People like to be asked questions and when you ask questions here is a unique thing that happens. You get answers…

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