Why Strategic Planning is Important
While it may seem an obvious statement, strategic planning is an incredibly important part of leading teams and long term projects. It’s an item, I’ve observed, that many organizations seem to treat almost as an afterthought. A team develops a rationale in order to submit a budget and believe that to be planning. To a…
Bioethics
This week the class of IMPACT 360 tackled the issue of bioethics. Before we could discuss the dilemmas that are currently being faced by bioethics, we had to answer the two fundamental questions: What is a human? And what is a human person for? We discovered that a human is a substance that possesses a…
Gen Z are “Positive Pessimists”
In 2018, Barna and Impact 360 Institute released Gen Z: The Culture, Beliefs and Motivations Shaping the Next Generation, which sought to help church leaders understand the next, next generation, digging deep into their relationships with faith, their perception of identity, and their hopes for the future. Now, just a few years later, Barna and…