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Pulling Together: What it Takes to Build Group Cohesion

RapidStart Leadership

How do you get them to function as one? Today we’ll talk about what happened, and how we can apply what he learned to improve our own group cohesion. Back in the 1950s, Social Scientist Muzafer Sherif was trying to understand what drives groups apart and what brings them together. Robber’s Cave. Robber’s Cave.

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5 Voices Church Leaders Should Be Listening to Right Now

Ron Edmondson

I have also communicated with our local sherif who has taken a very forward role in encouraging social distancing downtown – and we are a downtown church. You could do that with volunteers also.). We should glean all we can from those with the 10,000 foot view, but we should also be learning from our own peers.

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