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Executive & Lead Pastor Coaching with Phil Taylor

For many years, I’ve had the privilege of coaching Executive Pastors who were new to the role, or just needed a second set of eyes during a season of personal growth. I’ve also enjoyed coaching Lead Pastors who were not in a place where they could hire an Executive Pastor. With a heart for new church planters, it’s been my privilege to find ways to provide this coaching to you at an affordable rate. Since coaching is not my main gig, I’ve been able to provide executive level coaching for much less than those who do it full time. If this is something you are interested in pursuing, keep on reading and then reach out to me. It would be my privilege to help you grow in your ability to lead your church and staff well. Send additional questions or customized requests to [email protected]. 

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January 2, 2024by Phil Taylor
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5 Common Church Facility Mistakes

Recently, Tony Morgan’s the Unstuck group turned an interview I had done for them into an article. I’ll share the link here so you can check it out. Enjoy!

Find the article HERE.

November 20, 2023by Phil Taylor
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A Year In The Life Of Staff Development

Recently, I was asked to describe briefly what staff development looked like at our church. After taking a few minutes to sketch out a response it seemed like something that might benefit others so I took a little more time to do this well. I don’t believe this is perfect. I’m sure that there is more that I could and should be doing, or things that I could be doing more effectively, but here is what it looks like in general right now. I’m 100% sure it will change. Here is a year in the life of staff development for me at Mosaic Church . . .

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January 26, 2021by Phil Taylor
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The Transforming Benefits of 90-Day Planning

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I don’t know about you, but in my role as an executive pastor, I am having to simultaneously manage two seemingly conflicting realms. There is the 35,000 foot view, where I must be able to see the vision that needs to be crafted and executed. In addition, there is also the boots-on-the-ground view, where I am involved with the details that help a team arrive at a destination.

If I am not careful, I can easily fall into the trap of consistently giving my thinking and energies to what seems most advantageous at the moment. The result is that I am very liable to miss longterm strategic thinking and planning. There is no lack of busyness, but I end up looking back and thinking “Why didn’t this get done like we planned?”

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November 26, 2018by Phil Taylor
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Serve The City Conference

Serve the City is all about connecting you to the leaders and organizations in our city who are doing great work to bring justice and mercy to those in need. Come and be inspired and equipped at the first conference ever at the Mosaic Winter Garden Campus on January 26th & 27th! We hope to to see you there! SIGN ME UP!

January 2, 2018by Phil Taylor
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If You Value Your Team, You’ll Stop Doing This

Have you heard about the new app that is just killing it? It’s called Sarahah and it has quickly risen to the new #1 app in the Apple App Store.

It’s marketing push is simple: “Get honest feedback from your coworkers and friends.”

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August 4, 2017by Phil Taylor
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Big Deadline Goals vs. Ongoing Maintenance Goals

I love to run. For me, it is exercise, solitude, soul care, prayer time, thinking time, learning time, me time, all rolled into an hour or so, three times a week. Like many runners, I’m also incredibly goal oriented, so I sign up for half marathons several times a year. And I have a long term goal of running a half in all 50 states. I like to say that I don’t pay gym fees, I pay race fees. (Are runners goal oriented or are goal oriented people drawn to running?) Recently, I found myself in a race hole. One race ended without another one on the books anytime soon. Through it, I learned some important lessons about having ongoing maintenance goals as well as big deadline goals and it’s having an impact on my pastoral work life as well.

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June 26, 2017by Phil Taylor
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I Thought I Was Listening, But It Turns Out I Wasn’t

I get embarrassed over how many times I have to ask a new contact for their name…a second time.

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It’s like they just told me their name and by the end of the conversation, I am asking, “So…tell me your name again?” And even then there might be a chance that I struggle to keep that name with me.

Why does that happen?

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September 1, 2016by Phil Taylor
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Simple E-Mail Etiquette So People Hate You Less

Email is like a visit to the dentist. You don’t really want to go. You’re a little nervous about what you might find, but at some point, it just has to be done. It’s painful to open your inbox after only a couple hours of meetings to find dozens of new emails dying for a response. It doesn’t have to be this bad. But here’s the deal – to quote Smokey The Bear, “only you can prevent forest fires”. With each new crop of interns that come through our church, I share some simple tips for making e-mail less painful for those around you. These are rules I try to live by. I thought I’d share them with you in hopes that together, we can reduce the volume in our inbox, and the length of the emails in it. (Plus I wanted to link to this article in my own e-mail footer, maybe you should too!)

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October 16, 2015by Phil Taylor
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“It’s okay to have a busy life. It’s crazy to have a busy soul.”

Paul Miller in “A Praying Life”

“A man should never neglect his family for business.”

Walt Disney
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Teaching on “What is Home?”

Recently I taught at Mosaic Church on Defining Home. Since my family moved to Florida about a year ago, this is still kind of fresh for me. If you’ve ever left a place you love and moved somewhere very different, you’ll resonate with this.

August 3, 2014by Phil Taylor
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MEET PHIL

Phil Taylor

My name is Phil. I spent 20 years pastoring (mostly executive pastoring) and now I serve churches all over through consulting on buildings and brands at  Plain Joe Studios and coaching Executive Pastors. My wife and I have three kids and one grandchild. I’m into running and kayaking.

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