Leadership Tips & Training Commitment Record Motivation

To motivate your members to turn in their completed CR each week, have a weekly drawing. Go to a dollar store and store up on some inexpensive prizes. Kitchen gadgets are always a hit! Collect the CRs each week, place in a basket and draw one. The person whose CR is chosen receives the prize. I have noticed that the basket gets fuller each week when people do not want to be left out of the drawing!


Nancy Taylor is the First Place Leadership Training Director and joined the First Place staff in 1997. Nancy teaches leadership principles to First Place Leaders throughout the country and at Houston's First Baptist Church where she coordinates all the First Place groups. . Nancy also speaks at First Place workshops, rallies, retreats, and conferences, where she delights her audiences with humor and encourages them with boldness. She writes a monthly article, which includes helpful tips for leaders, for the First Place E-newsletter, and was a contributing writer to the Today is the First Day devotional book. Nancy is the resident First Place Bible Concordance because of her love for Scripture memory.