The Biblical Leadership Show
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Welcome to The Biblical Leadership Show, your go-to resource for discovering timeless truths from Scripture that empower leaders to inspire, influence, and impact their world. Hosted by Tim Lansford and Dr. Dean Posey, this podcast takes a deep dive into the Bible’s profound lessons on leadership, bringing fresh perspectives to timeless principles that resonate in today’s fast-paced, ever-changing world.
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The Biblical Leadership Show
Cultivating Unity: The Fusion of Humor, Vision, and Team Synergy in the Heart of Texas
Ever wonder how a dash of humor and a shared vision can transform a team? Dr. Dean Posey and I, Tim, are your guides through a Texas spring-filled journey into the heart of team cohesion. Mixing dad jokes with leadership insights, we discuss the essential ingredients for building teams that aren't just groups of people working together, but a united force driven by common goals. From church pews to corporate desks, we draw on our eclectic experiences to reveal the secrets to harmonious and productive team environments.
This episode is a treasure trove for anyone seeking to boost their team's morale and efficiency. We put under the microscope the powerful role of diversity in a team, just like Jesus's varied crew of apostles, and show how different perspectives can be the jet fuel for innovation and growth. We share stories of how transparency and understanding the 'why' of actions strengthens trust within teams, while also cautioning against the pitfalls of oversharing. Dr. Posey and I dissect the anatomy of a successful team, highlighting the importance of cross-training, risk management, and the art of seamlessly integrating team building into the daily grind through engaging activities.
As we wrap up, get ready for a chuckle or two with our dad jokes that are sure to resonate—or at least cause an eye-roll. But it's not all fun and games; we invite you to connect with us, bring your leadership conundrums, and let our experiences light the way. From shared victories to the individual triumphs that contribute to a team's success, we leave you with an uplifting reminder to cherish every day as an opportunity to make a difference in your work and the world around you.
all righty welcome to a yeah, uh-huh, yeah, come on, come on, all righty welcome to another exciting episode of the Biblical Leadership Show. Hey, tim, how you doing? Dr Dean Posey, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:today I'm doing fantastic.
Speaker 1:You know we're having a good day down here. The weather's good, we can't complain.
Speaker 2:No, it's. This is fantastic. Spring in Texas is just absolutely incredible. Yeah, you know so many flowers are blooming the azaleas. You know, it's just, it's just beautiful, it's just beautiful.
Speaker 1:And this Easter thing.
Speaker 2:Yes, easter, you know, it was like two days ago, I know, and so. So I just have a, you know, I know we're going to talk about team building today, building teams, and that's so, so important it is.
Speaker 1:We drew it out of the hat. We did yeah, we decided we're just going to put everything on a cap and we shake it up and we pull out one, and then we talk about it and we make stuff up. That's the way it works right, but.
Speaker 2:But we're building our team here in the studio but, but we just had Easter, so I just need to throw in an Easter dad joke. Oh okay, okay. And here's the thing how does the Easter bunny stay fit?
Speaker 1:How does the Easter bunny stay fit? I'm thinking real fast. Let's see if I can get this one. I do not know.
Speaker 2:Lots of exercise. Well, there you go, there you go.
Speaker 1:Well, if you're not familiar with our show. What we do is we bring a little of the biblical in and we bring a little of the corporate leadership in and we throw some dad jokes in for fun. Yeah, and today there's going to be a— At least it's fun for us and today it's fun for us, I don't know.
Speaker 2:There's going to be a lot of dad jokes because we're talking about team building, and you know work environment kind of stuff and we have so many dad jokes about oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:you know we thought about just doing a whole show on team building and just doing all dad jokes and just letting Posey and I get there and team build today. But we actually will probably teach you something a little bit about team building and yeah.
Speaker 2:So let's just crank it off right here with a good dad joke about team building. You know teamwork is important, it really is.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:It helps me put the blame on someone else.
Speaker 1:But that's just the opposite of what we're going to be talking about it is yes, exactly right. I'm just going to save some of mine. I got some.
Speaker 2:You got some real whoppers.
Speaker 1:I got some pretty good ones today.
Speaker 2:actually, Speaking of that, let's just you know, part of team building is evaluating performance and being honest about that and I know as a pastor with a staff, we had to do annual evals. I mean there was a committee that did an annual eval for me. I did the annual evals for the staff. I always asked them how they were doing, or, and some of the staff we would. They would know the questions I was going to ask them so they could think about the, the answers and we could, and then I would answer the questions and we would sit down and talk about it. Did we feel the same way? Was there a difference? You know those kinds of things, but one particular performance eval for me. The report came back that I said I lacked passion and intensity.
Speaker 1:Passion- and intensity.
Speaker 2:I guess they had never seen me alone with a Whataburger. Well, it's a Texas joke. Yeah, that's exactly right.
Speaker 1:If you're not familiar with Whataburger, that's us down here. Look at us just throwing dad jokes in early. Sometimes we do that, guys, you know, sometimes we wait to the very end and we're sad that we didn't even talk about dad jokes early at all.
Speaker 1:But I mean, this is team building. We've been smiling and having fun this morning on our pre show talking a little bit about what we're going to talk about today. So yeah, it's all good. So what is this team building? What does it do? And if you don't know our past, you know Dr Posey's been in church leadership for. You know since, you know the early 1800s and you know 13th century British. If you want to go to our website, biblicalleadershipshowcom, yeah, a long time, but a long time Many decades, and I've been in corporate leadership, training, corporate training, for a long time as well.
Speaker 1:So that's sort of our background, and hopefully you've been listening to us for many a week now. But other than that, what's team building? What's team building to you?
Speaker 2:Well, to me, a team building, and I would say, even if there's only two people, you know, team building doesn't have to be like oh, I don't have a team, I don't have 50 people, I don't have, you know this number. Think about basketball team. I mean, you know March Madness. Of course everybody's excited about March Madness. You have five people a team and if they don't work as a cohesive unit, they're not going to win. Well, there's one person who always tries to get the shot. It doesn't matter if someone else is open, they always try to be the hot dog person. That team's not going to make it.
Speaker 2:So the concept of team building is a process and it's an ongoing process. It's not like you get to a certain level and you're done. It's an ongoing process that helps a group involve into a organized, cohesive unit. And so the question is how does that happen? There's all kinds of ways, but one of the biggest foundational things about building a team is working together towards a common vision. And so, on podcast number 12, if you are new to our show, I hope you are.
Speaker 2:If you're not, maybe you listen to podcast number 12, I'd say, just go back to podcast 12 and listen to vision, because that is such a good foundational lesson that everybody has to be focused on the same vision. So let's just say you have a staff meeting or at some particular point and you're talking about vision and everybody's nodding their head in the meeting. The question is what happens after the meeting? What happens in the hallway? What happens in the parking lot? Are people still buying into the vision? Are they going to say there is no way, I'm doing that, you know, I'm just not for that. And so if you have that kind of non-cohesiveness, it's going to be really hard to create a team that continues to build and grow into a cohesive unit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and to add on to that, that vision and I actually call it sort of vision and alignment too, you know, because vision is something that we put out as a leader and we throw it out there and everybody should know it, you know and it's done, but I mean we got to know how it all ties together. So, all these pieces, how do we take all these pieces of our very, very company, the sales guy, the dock worker, the truck driver and then all go towards that vision? So I think it's a two, two prong approach there vision and alignment. What do you do after we leave the room?
Speaker 1:You might be able to state exactly what the vision statement is, which in most cases in corporate leadership, I always ask people what their vision statement is. Usually, maybe one or two people out of 40 of them in the room might know it, and they only know a few words. Most people do not know their vision or mission statement of their company and corporate leadership. And this is a huge thing. Right that you got to know where the ship's going, because that's where the ship's going, that's where the leadership, and you got to make sure your job, you're working in the right direction. And we talked about a lot in that podcast 12, but it's very important to have the vision and that alignment.
Speaker 2:Yes, and not only, and I'll just say it in different language. You might know the mission statement, you might know the vision statement. You might have memorized them. Whether it's five words or 15 or whatever it is, you might have memorized it. You might know it in your mind. The question is have you bought into it with your heart and with your time and with your passion? And that's what team building does. I think it's not just knowing a statement on a card or on the wall. When you walk in, it's painted on the wall, everybody sees it, they know it from memory. Have they bought into the vision? And so the question is what can you do with your team? Sometimes, a lot of times, that's during office hours, sometimes it's after hours, sometimes it might be a weekend retreat. What can you do to build a cohesive unit so everybody supports and buys into that vision, so everybody on the team is moving in the same direction?
Speaker 1:100%. So let's tie this back into the Bible, because I mean we have both sides of this and this sort of ties into some of the corporate leadership. What are some good stories of the Bible that maybe can reference? Building the teams.
Speaker 2:Well, I'll just say right off the top there's so many references about team. If you look through the Bible with that filter, you're going to see a lot. But let's just start with the New Testament, because in the Apostle Paul's writings, in several places specifically in 1 Corinthians, but several places he talks about the church as the body of Christ, that each person has a part, about the church as the body of Christ, that each person has a part, every part is important and every part works together for the common good. And so if one part hurts, all the parts hurt, and if one part is missing, then there's something significantly missing, no matter how big or small it is. And so to me that's such a good image that all of us can relate to, whether we're a church person or not, that the team is like a body and all the parts need to be working together for a common good.
Speaker 2:Now there's other things, like Ephesians, chapter 4, paul's writing there about everybody has gifts. There are certain people that are, you know, apostles, prophets, pastors, evangelists and teachers. Them to all to function and grow in quality and quantity. But they all have to be bought into that, and there's going to be some that are going to be teachers, some that are going to be learners. But the question is you want to get the learners to know the vision so well that they eventually can be the teachers. And so the question is are your people that are experienced, are they mentoring the young staff or the less experienced staff so that someday they can be the mentors of the next generation? And that, to me, is team building. You can have team building as a group, you can have team building one group, you can have team building one-on-one, but there's so many different aspects of a team, but it all works for the common good.
Speaker 1:That's awesome, yeah, and one of the things that I was looking at as far as the corporate that was a big one as far as building the team is the diversity. A lot of people they think that if you put six engineers in a room that are highly technical and you ask them to get something done, more than likely that team is going to be stagnant because they're going to overlook, they're going to overthink, they're going to go through all the deep details. You put somebody like me in a room, or a sales guy or something, there's only going to be so down in the weeds that he's going to let the engineers go because we're going to move forward. If not, we're going to be here for another two weeks figuring this out. So if you have this diversity in team and people come from all different experiences even if they're all systems engineers, they all come from different experiences. They all have a separate thing that they specialize in or some back job that gave them those set of skills. That's a little bit different and that's where I was tying into something about Jesus. You know, when he chose his apostles, the diversity that made up through the apostles. There Did I say the apostles?
Speaker 2:Yeah, the apostles, the apostles, the apostles. I created a new world, you did, I did a new word there, that's right. Well, you heard it first on this podcast.
Speaker 1:I'm going to have to coin that one. Where was that? The apostles, the apostles. That's not even a dad joke. My brain started caught up.
Speaker 2:But we need to create that into a dad joke. We do have to create that into a dad joke, we do have to create that in a tattoo.
Speaker 1:My brain sort of caught up. I went wait a second. That's disciples and apostles.
Speaker 2:Well, you never know, maybe they're both yeah.
Speaker 1:Maybe it was both right. So anyway, that was my big thing and from the leadership and the biblical you know, tying those both in, because I mean you have to have that in the makeup of a company. When I have people that come to work for me, when I hire people, I don't hire me, right? Unless I'm going for a sales guy, right, I need that person that's a detail guy, that's in the weeds, that's going to love that stuff, that's not going to get burned out. I can do all that. It's just like nails on the chalkboard, right? I'd rather not, I'd rather be out there being the front person talking and hoop-hawing and all that stuff. You know we fit in where that personality is.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and so just an example from my experience at the church. So we had, you know, several worship teams, several worship services. But I'll just think about one particular example, and that is you know, I had a group of people. One was the worship leader, one was the person who was the sound person, one was the person that made all the slides, all the videos, then there was a person that did instruments, and so you had all those people together and me as a speaker.
Speaker 2:We'd all get together and we would brainstorm and process together, and everybody had their strengths as to how they would view it. You know, something might sound good to us, but from a sound point of view, the sound engineer would say that I don't know how to make that work. Or the guy that did the videos, he'd say now how do you want that shown in a video clip? And so we would just process, and the more we would do that it would just sound. I mean, it would come across really, really good. Or in a band you know, right now I have the privilege of playing in a band at a church and I'm enjoying it, but I just play guitar. You know, there's a drummer, there's a bass guitarist, there's a keyboardist, there's a pianist, there's some vocalists, and all getting together to work on that just builds the team and everybody does their part. No one does everything and the team is stronger for it.
Speaker 1:And that's because the sound guy said Posey, you're not singing, we're singing.
Speaker 2:I told him don't put a mic in front of me and if you need to just mute my guitar, he said no problem.
Speaker 1:I've been doing that for a couple of weeks. It's nothing new, posey. It's of weeks. It's nothing new, potey.
Speaker 2:It's all right, it's nothing new, but it reminded me that one day, when I was working for somebody and my boss told me to have a good day, so I went home. Just throwing it in all day long Just throwing them in. That's great, oh man. So the question is there's different types of team-building activities. I think some of the fun things we would do as a staff. We went axe throwing one time. We would go to a place for— I love axe throwing. Oh, axe throwing is so much fun.
Speaker 1:We were in spring break, you know here a while back and I was going to take the kids and there was one place that let my kids I've had younger kids and we're going to go. It was league night so I didn't want to do that with the kids and stuff on a league night. That probably could get a little crazy. But yeah, so much fun going axe throwing.
Speaker 2:You and I should go axe throwing and post a video on our website. We should, we should. Let's do that.
Speaker 1:We're going to have to do that, we, we should, we should. Let's do that. We're going to have to do that, so we'll do our own team building exercise.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly right. So just think about what can you do? Well, let's go. Well, let's. Before we get to actual, some practical stuff, let's think about.
Speaker 2:I think one of the most amazing writers and leaders in this area of leadership is a man by the name of Jim Collins, and he wrote a fantastic book. If you've never read it, it's still a classic. It's called Good to Great and it talks about how to take a good organization and make it great. And I have a quote from him, and this is a classic.
Speaker 2:You might have heard it before, you might have heard part of it before, but it actually originates from Jim Collins, and he says this If we get the right people on the bus, the right people in the right seats and the wrong people off the bus, then we'll figure out how to take it someplace great. So part of it is before you start doing team building, I think you have to evaluate your staff, and the question is or you evaluate your team, Do we have the right people on the bus to make this team really a cohesive, great unit, or do we need to do some modification to our team? Do we need to? You might have a great person on your staff, but they have the wrong function.
Speaker 1:Maybe they're in the wrong seat. That's a great one too, Right yeah?
Speaker 2:And so maybe you have to do some realignment of job responsibilities because as a team, you're weak in a certain area, but you have a person that has added value that you didn't know. Oh my goodness, we have someone who's bilingual. Let's focus on this. So you have to evaluate your team, make sure all the team is in the right place, that everybody's on the right seat in the right place, and then start building your team. Sometimes you have to make a decision that all of us have made, to let people go because they just don't fit the team, or maybe they just don't want the vision, or maybe they just have no passion for what you're doing, and unfortunately, I've had to do that more than I care to admit. But that just helps the team grow stronger, and so that's.
Speaker 2:I think a very first important point is to make sure you have the right people on the team, and then we talked about this aligning around the vision. And here's another important thing you can talk to the your team all day long about what you're going to do the vision. This is what we want to do. You know, when we want to increase sales by, you know, 10% this year. This is how we're going to do it. We're going to you know we're going to have new territory or whatever, but it's important for the team to know the why, not just the what. And so if the leader of the team can be transparent and say why this is why we're doing this, for whatever the why is, I think that helps motivate people, helps be some transparency. It really does help in the team building because everybody's going to know the why. Yeah.
Speaker 1:And I think that's one of the biggest things from a leader, from a corporate the more transparent you are, the more that you can be open. And here's the thing when I say more transparent, I think that there are some things that are meant for a management level and not for, you know, employee level. I did consulting to this one company and they were all about opening up canned worms, you know, throwing everything down to the employees. Well, instantly it backfired on them. I told them there's more likely it was because then they go well, you're making all this money and all this stuff and you know we're not getting paid enough. Everybody wanted raises or they're going to walk out all this stuff. But they don't understand the business. You know, I just had this conversation with my employees, you know, a little bit ago, and because we had a client thinking we, we made tons of money, I'm like you don't understand. I mean, after you, you pay for this and this and this and this and this and this. There there's only a small part left at the end of the rainbow right.
Speaker 1:But a lot of people don't think that they just see a lump number, and you know. So be transparent. But you know, pick and choose, not pick and choose, because that's not a good leader to pick and choose. Just know everybody's roles. You know, because that's one of the things that the more transparent that you can be, I guarantee that people are going to respect you, because they know that you're not hiding stuff. So don't hide, you know. Have that respect where they buy into you as a leader, because if they don't buy in and you're not open and transparent, then you'll never be able to lead a team. It's as simple as that. That's right.
Speaker 2:The trust level will go down the back. Talking the talk in the hallway, in the parking lot, you know, after hours it's just going to be rampant and that just destroys a team. It's like torpedoes it. And it won't happen necessarily immediately, but over time that will happen. And so one of the things that is important as far as team building If you have someone in accounting, you have someone in purchasing, you have someone else in sales, whatever your structure, it's very easy for all those people to work in a silo.
Speaker 2:They just have their own thing. They're at their computer all day, they're with their headset and they're focused on the phone, all that kind of stuff, and they don't really know how their piece fits to the big. It's like I'm one piece of the puzzle but I don't know how the puzzle fits together. And so part of team building is that you don't want silos. You want everybody to be interconnected, interdependent, and say you might not have the accounting person be the purchasing person, but they need to know how that works and why it's important to get this particular thing right so that that just builds a teamwork.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this first question I ask when I'm going in to do consulting with a company is do you do cross-training?
Speaker 1:Do you have your sales guys sit with the accounting, see what's required, see how you document things. Do you have purchaser sit over here in this department and that person sit with that person? I mean, that's one of those things that I've done for years, right, and I think I've told you stories. How to get things done is when you know, when I was in sales and you know I was a new guy six weeks into this and I was walking around the warehouse and you know, warehouse guy, he didn't walk in the warehouse as a sales guy. You know this is my first company, he's out of college and there'd be people there for five years, six years, been salespeople there. They'd walk out and we just had to stand there forever. Five years, six years been salespeople there. They'd walk out and we just had to stand there forever.
Speaker 1:Well, they would be out there standing for 30 minutes I'd walk out and the warehouse guy'd go Lansford, what do you need? I go, blah, blah, blah. He goes, go get it. And I would walk over and get it, walk out. And this guy has been here for six years, knew this guy, he goes, what, what, what? You know? Do you blackmailing this guy, white, white, because I mean, he was a, he was a tough warehouse guy. I go, I don't know, dude, apparently he likes me more than you and uh, and I would walk out.
Speaker 1:But what they didn't know is every wednesday night I, I was a suit, we called the suit guys in the front warehouse is I would stay late and uh, you know, six o'clock, all the suits went home, everybody in the office. I'd go get my jeans on, I'd order five pizzas and'd go out on the warehouse work all night unloading trucks, with them driving the forklifts, not going to get fired. They could have got fired but we just did it. I did it to build that teamwork right. So when I came there, the warehouse manager knew that I knew everything about the warehouse because I was working there for months every Wednesday and hanging out loading shelf, you know, unloading all these big semis, and that built that team right so I could get things done because they saw me as one of them, instead of a suit in the front office.
Speaker 1:And you know, moral of the story is you know little things like that. That's how you get ahead in the world. If you're constantly doing the same thing that everybody expects, you're never going to move forward. You got to think outside the box, you know. That's one of the biggest things.
Speaker 2:I tell people all the time Think outside the box. What can you do to build that team? Yeah, so let's go back about a minute, because you just kind of laid a foundation for our podcast for next week, which is risk management.
Speaker 1:Risk management.
Speaker 2:Yes, and so the question is if you're going along, you have your purchasing agent, your accountant. What happens if one of those people got sick?
Speaker 2:and was not able to come into work for an extended period of time, whatever that meant. Okay, they're on paternity leave, maternity leave. How are you going to handle that? Are you prepared to do that? And if you have a solid team and there's, you know, like you said, you've built relationships with them, they're solid, they work together your team is going to be mature enough to find an answer to that issue, whether that means bringing a temporary person job share, whatever it is. But that's one reason teamwork is so important, because not everything is always going to go well with your team. Sometimes there's going to be issues that you have to deal with, and if you can deal with them as a team, then the organization is a lot healthier than just trying to deal with it as the suit right.
Speaker 1:Yeah, 100%. And I just had that in a corporation that I do consulting, for One person had been there for over 40 years, the other one's 20. First year they said we're going to retire. Well, I mean, nobody's been cross-training working beside them, I mean. So it was a two-month scramble to figure out what's been going on for 40 years, right you know? 20 years, that's two big key pieces of a small years, right you?
Speaker 2:know 20 years.
Speaker 1:That's two big, key pieces of a small organization right and trying to figure out that that would be.
Speaker 2:It was a crazy, crazy jump, so you know Well that brings us to another reason why team building is so important because every organization, every team, needs to have a succession plan. I know churches some churches do this exceptionally well, other churches don't. Some businesses do that exceptionally well, other businesses don't. And so the question is what happens if? Right, we'll talk about that next week in risk management. But that's one reason building your team is so important, so that the team, when those ifs happen, you can actually solve them together. You know, and it's not just on one person's shoulder, you can rely upon the team to think it through, you can be transparent. Hey, this is what's going on, especially, you know, a couple of years ago, when COVID hit us like a brick. You know, we sat down and figured how are we going to solve this? And so that's one reason teamwork is so important.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's it's, it's a very, very important thing and if you, if you want your companies to run, so I think one of the biggest takeaways out of this, this thing and that, uh, you know there's been a lot of good takeaways is what you said about sometimes just one or two people need to be switched in different positions or assigned one task, one task on there, and that's what we always did first of the year, you know, coming into review time or quarterly.
Speaker 1:I'd have everybody write down everything that you do, because a lot of times as a manager, maybe I overlook what I assigned them or told them to do, or they've taken that responsibility on themselves, or maybe and I go out of these things Is there anything that you hate doing? And I always ask them because, if you're honest, they'll be like well, I sort of hate this. Tell you the truth. I know that Susie over here can handle it and I ask Susie, is there anything you hate? Oh, I hate this one. And then sometimes you just flip those and your team could be dysfunctional in a way, but then you flip it around and it's like the clouds opening and all that stuff.
Speaker 1:Can we hear that again? No, no, thank you, and that's one of those things, but it's fun. Team building is very important, and that's how we put it together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, now you don't have to have a lot of meetings to do team building.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:The reason I say that is because meetings, those are where minutes are kept, but hours are lost, right.
Speaker 1:We're just going to slide in.
Speaker 2:It's the end of the show, guys, you can hit pause from here on out or Well, you know how it is. I read this the other day. You know, a bus station is where a bus stops, A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstation.
Speaker 1:That's pretty good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1:I was sitting there going. I had a construction one. How do construction teams stay in shape? They do lots of heavy lifting.
Speaker 2:So let's talk about team building exercise, team building activities.
Speaker 1:We talked about axe throwing.
Speaker 2:That's fun. You might not be in a place where there's axe throwing place in your community.
Speaker 1:No, If not start one, it's a great. I mean, it's pretty hot it is hot. It's one of the fastest growing fun things to do, right, and it is fun.
Speaker 2:But there's different activities that you can do and you have to think okay, part of our qualitative and quantitative work depends upon the quality of our team, and so sometimes people make the mistake of thinking, oh, all this team building has to happen outside of office hours. What if you schedule it like in an afternoon or a morning or around a two-hour lunch instead of a one-hour lunch, and so do something. You don't have to do a big activity a lot. You can do small activities over time to get the same effect. But you have personality. Team building activities that could be. Somebody could talk about their you know their life stories. Just sharing life stories, getting to know the people on your team, that's a real important activity. You could do some activity-based things. You know fun games you could have. You know axe throwing. You could go to dinner together, lunch together you know those kind of things.
Speaker 1:You could go watch a show of musical fish.
Speaker 2:Yes, exactly right.
Speaker 1:In other words, call it an orca strut Moving on Okay.
Speaker 2:Then there's skill-based you know you can have team-building things, like there's ropes courses and those kind of things, yeah, and then you could also do a problem-solving Like you could do a problem-solving and a team-building activity at the same time, like go to an escape room yeah, those are incredible. Now, some people might be claustrophobic, so you've got to be careful about that. But those where you have to work together to solve a situation, and that's what it's all about you want to be able to have your team be processing. You don't want to have one person come up with all the answers. You want to draw each other's strengths and you want to draw those out so you know what each other's strengths are.
Speaker 1:If you're claustrophobic or you don't like the escape rooms, have you ever thought doing a team building in space?
Speaker 2:Team building in space. No, I hadn't thought about that, you just have to plan it carefully. Oh okay, you have to plan it carefully, oh, okay.
Speaker 1:You have to plan it carefully, oh look at me go man, You're usually the dad joke king I'm rolling these in. You know, you keep just setting me up. Yeah, I did.
Speaker 2:Here I'll set you up on this one. So one day my boss told me I did have. When I was in college, one of the jobs I had was a security guard.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:So boss told me that as a security guard, my job was to watch the office.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm on season six and I haven't really figured out what has to do with security. Yeah, in college I was actually a can crusher. A can crusher, yeah, but I had to quit my job because it was so depressing look at us go all right, you got one more and then I'll we'll spare these people the rest. You got any other?
Speaker 2:good ones. Do we have any other ones?
Speaker 1:I got. Why was the computer cold at team, at the team meeting?
Speaker 2:why was the what?
Speaker 1:why was the computer cold at the team meeting I? Don't know because it left its windows open. Oh, oh, we got, we got. You know, here we go, let's see.
Speaker 2:Uh, we throw some crickets in there okay, so, so I I share dad jokes with my uh, my family all the time, and most of the time I get a thumbs down I do I'm sure we're getting thumbs down out there in the podcast world as well, but that's fine.
Speaker 2:So here in about a month, I'll be up in Frederick, maryland, with our daughter to run a half marathon, and I haven't run a half marathon with her since like 2008,. So I'm really excited about doing that. And so I'm really excited about doing that, and so I'm really, you know, exercising a lot. Last Saturday you know it was a training run I did eight miles. So I'm really into exercise. I do crunches twice a day just to work on my core. Yeah, I do crunches twice a day. I do Captain in the morning and Nestle in the afternoon.
Speaker 1:Just throw it in there.
Speaker 2:Just throw it in there. This has nothing to do with work, but I just thought it was fun. It was good. I like it, though, yeah.
Speaker 1:I'm just impressed the boy who's over here. He swims every day. I did.
Speaker 2:I swam before I came to the studio he did.
Speaker 1:I'm so happy for you.
Speaker 2:You're just kicking some booty. I need to make that into a dad joke at some point Some triathlon dad joke, we can look that up, that's it, I will have triathlon. Dad jokes by next week. Yeah, let's make stuff up.
Speaker 1:I'll have some, oh All right, dr Posey.
Speaker 2:Oh, one last thing. You got one more. Oh my gosh, I shared this with you before we went on air. So here's the thing. It's just something to think about. Okay, this is a science one, this is a science joke, but it's not really a joke. Okay, just something to think about. 70% of the earth is water, yes, right, and virtually none of it is carbonated. So the earth is, in fact flat.
Speaker 1:I like that, told you, I was going to have to use that one.
Speaker 2:You're going to have to use that one somehow. I just think it's great. I have a good idea where to use it.
Speaker 1:Anyway, Dr Posey, where do they find us?
Speaker 2:Biblicalleadershipshowcom.
Speaker 1:Biblicalleadershipshowcom.
Speaker 2:The podcast. You know wherever you get your podcasts. Just type in Biblical Leadership Show. We should be the very first one there.
Speaker 1:We should.
Speaker 2:And just excited. We're redoing our website, updating all that stuff adding more stuff, slowly getting it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we're going to get a video with us ax throwing. Yes, we're going to do that here soon, yeah that would be a lot of fun.
Speaker 2:So you have any more jokes to just kind of you know I think fun. So you have any more jokes to just kind of you know I think they're done with my jokes. I hear the audience. They're like good, good, good. Yeah, I'll join that applause wow, they're ready to go ready to go. Thank you, check us out.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing. If, if you'd like first uh, you some subjects or something, you've got some good jokes for us. If you have any problems that's going on with your church or need any advice or you'd like us to talk about anything, we have a lot of experience. We'd love to help you. Hit our website out there there's a little form. Send that in to us and let us see how we can help you Learn that at biblicalleadershipshowcom and make it a great day. Make it a great day. Thank you for listening.
