31 Creative Ways to Build Your Family Team: Practical Everyday Tools That Will Make an Immediate Difference


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When opening your toolbox for building your family team, you might find it quite scarce or even empty. How can you train your children and cultivate a healthy culture? How do you begin to stop thinking about family as a collection of individuals and more as a team? What are the practical steps you can take to rest and revaluate your rhythm regularly? In, 31 Creative Ways to Build Your Family Team, Kelsey and Jeremy layout simple ways to start thinking about family intentionally. Each day brings a new idea, change or tip that can range from being serious to whimsical for families with kids of all ages! Take this one month journey with your spouse and come out the other side with new ideas and a deeper understanding of how to build your family team. Going through 31 Creative Ways to Build Your Family Team will: -Give you practical tools for training and engaging that you can implement right away-Transform your family culture-Connect on a deep level regularly-Cultivate a team-identity-Create family rhythms and ways to continually improve on them-Help you develop language to grow in healthy communication




Go Family


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EVERY CHILD needs a sense of belonging and it starts in our homes. In this resource and journal, Christine uses classroom experiences and sports examples to teach us about the power of making our family a team. She also gets real, and candidly shares relatable, humorous, and heartfelt stories of her own family follies and offers practical, creative, (and sometimes crazy) ideas to inspire and encourage parents everywhere to: *create a sense of belonging in their family for their kids.*use teamwork for disciplining, problem-solving, house-cleaning, and everything in between.*make family time a priority and create a bond that will last a lifetime




Father's Compass: 21 Insights to Guide Dads Through the Journey of Fatherhood


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Fatherhood is complex and confusing. Modern culture isn't helping. Dads today need real practical insight to navigate toward God's design for fatherhood. Jeremy has collected some of his favorite insights into one book that we trust will help serve you as a compass for fatherhood.




School, Family, and Community Partnerships


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Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.




Go Family! 31 Ways to Create Team Unity in Your Home


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Your family is your team no matter who is in it, where you live, or what you do! In this book, you will enjoy funny, heart-warming stories about Christine's family along with some relatable sports analogies as she shares: *practical ideas for creating unity in your home. *strategies for helping every member of your family feel like they belong, that they are loved, and that they are valuable members of your team family. *how to find a new joy in simply having fun with your team.




Team Family (Book 1)


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Team Family(tm) Is Your Year-Round Guide for Intentional Family Ministry It's finally here--a resource to help you and your church effectively reach and engage families of all shapes and sizes! Team Family gives you a practical year-round strategy for partnering with today's families to strengthen their faith and their relationships with each other, with other families, with you, and with Jesus. Team Family Book 1 includes these four seasonal themes: Comfort & Joy(Winter/Christmas) Amazing Grace (Spring/Easter) Rewind. Be Kind. (Summer) Take Courage! (Fall) Formatted around the four seasons of the year, you'll get fresh, innovative, and intentional ideas for engaging families--do them all or pick and choose! Inside each annual book, you'll get all this for every seasonal theme: Family event ideas and experiences designed to grow relationships within families and friendships with other families. Scripts for interactive, intergenerational family worship services. Creative ways for families to reach out and serve your community inside and outside your church. Friendship-focused follow-up ideas to inspire families to return, planning tools, and ways to center your heart on and pray for the families you serve. Practical insights for you to understand families and their needs. In addition, each book includes an online access code for downloadable resources to help you promote every activity such as social media graphics, printable posters, invites, and more! Team Family is your annual go-to guide for practical, easy-to-implement ideas that help you feel effective at partnering with families! Team Family delivers... Intentionality around building community, nurturing faith, and creating strong relationships. Bible exploration for families that invites parents/caregivers to engage and grow alongside their kids. Fun! Families play, create, worship, and serve--all while growing closer to Jesus. Easy-to-implement ideas with low volunteer needs. Simplicity--it's easy to plug in any of the ideas to what you're already doing for families--or to start something new. Colorfully designed interior pages with additional places to customize with your own ideas, prayers, notes, and reminders.




The DIY Guide to Building a Family That Lasts


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"The most exciting part of any home improvement show is the big reveal--that moment when a drab, run-down house becomes a breathtaking new home. What if you could have that with your home life? That's what the DIY Guide is all about. In it, you'll find practical tools for transforming your home life and dramatically improving your family's culture from Shannon Warden and Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the New York Times #1 Bestseller The 5 Love Languages®. Each chapter teaches you a new home life skill and pairs it with a home improvement metaphor that makes it fun and easy to remember. You can't hire a contractor for this work, but if you're willing to put in the sweat equity (hard work), you'll see results fast. Don't wait any longer. Get started today and give your relational space the renovations it deserves."--Back cover.




Take Back Your Family Handbook


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"Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the nuclear family ideal and calls for a sweeping new paradigm that brings not only longed-for stability but also radical blessings to the world"--




Take Back Your Family


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New York Times bestselling author Jefferson Bethke delivers a powerful critique of the Western notion of the nuclear family and calls us to a sweeping new paradigm that brings not only longed-for stability but also radical blessings to the world. The West's multi-century experiment with the nuclear family has failed. Its toxic hyper-individualism has left us with an unprecedented number of broken homes and rampant confusion over what a family is supposed to be. Jefferson Bethke delivers the solution we've been seeking: a plan for taking back our families from the modern myth that has derailed us and a vision for returning to the life-giving, biblical model of multi-generational teams. In Take Back Your Family, Bethke uncovers the historic events that led to our obsession with the nuclear family, then exposes the devastating effects of our current "me culture." Now, writing from the visceral perspective of a father with three young children, he shares the values and strategies he and his family lean on in their quest to live as a community bonded by a shared mission, committed to mutually growing and thriving together. By returning to God's original design for families on earth, he says, we can participate in the kingdom work that restores and fulfills our innermost desires for connection, contentment, and meaning.




Ask a Manager


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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together