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Plate-Spinning Management

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Author/Source: Barney Kinard

Topic: Management, Volunteers

A fun spin on management techniques with simple suggestions that can help your children's ministry take a big step forward.

The fine art of “plate spinning” is a sort of a juggling act where you keep as many plates (real or plastic) spinning as you can on top of sticks or poles. If a plate stops spinning, it will fall and break, so you have to visit each plate as it slows and speed it up again. The more plates you have, the more frantically you must dash from plate to plate to plate to keep them all spinning. Figuratively, you are frantically busy keeping track of lots of things. This is like another similar phrase from juggling…“Having a lot of balls in the air.”

How many plates can you spin at one time?

The trick is to keep the first one spinning while you add more. But at what point do you let one plate stop in order to add another new spinning plate?

Discover four solutions that might help:

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