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How Tony Petrello Came To Lead Nabors Industries

Tony Petrello is the top executive at Nabors Industries. He is the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chairman of the Board of this oil industry giant. Nabors Industries is not only the largest land-based oil driller in the world but it is also the leader in supplying offshore drilling companies with oil drilling platforms, services, and technology.

As the top person at Nabors Industries, Tony Petrello sees to the day to day operations of the company as well as its strategic vision. He first joined Nabors Industries in 1991. Before that, he was an attorney at a New York law firm called Baker & McKenzie. At Baker & McKenzie, his legal expertises were in taxation, corporate law, and international arbitration. He worked at this law firm for 12 years, for six of which he was the Managing Partner. In addition to his role at Nabors Industries, Tony Petrello also serves on the board of two other oil industry companies, Stewart & Stevenson, LLC, and Hilcorp Energy Company.

As the parent of a child who has cerebral palsy, Tony Petrello is dedicated to providing funding and support to medical researchers who are developing therapies to treat cerebral palsy and other childhood neurological disorders. He has donated $5 million, with an additional $2 million pledged, to the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute which is located at the Texas Children’s Hosptial in Houston, Texas. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Trustees for this hospital and advocates for the children that it serves.

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The Science of Online Reputation Management

With the rising social media popularity, it is important for all businesses to maintain an impressive media presence. Consumers tend to make their decisions based on the opinions and reviews of the other customers. Therefore, it is essential to maintain good online reputation to ensure that your clients always leave good reviews for your products or services.All firms need to properly manage their digital presence by having a robust website, well designed online advertisements, and active profiles among others.

All sectors are embracing the internet phenomena. In the past, for instance, once patients left the hospitals, they never discussed any information on what transpired between them and the practitioners. That has changed drastically, and patients can now narrate their experiences, whether good or otherwise, online. A recent study revealed that 65 percentage of the people are aware of online physician rating sites and out these, 28 percent potential patients search the sites. Majority of the respondents said they consider these ratings very vital while choosing a physician.

Customers now expect personal interaction with their suppliers. They expect quick response to their online queries and concerns. It is, therefore, imperative that you identify the online conversations that matter to your business and respond wisely to your customers’ issues. Here are a few strategies to help you improve your company’s online reputation:

Respond to Online Review

Always acknowledge online reviews and respond promptly and professionally. Encourage your customers to post their reviews. You can also introduce a tool that proactively collects reviews from them.

Provide Excellent Customer Service

Always endeavor to give exceptional customer service so that your clients can leave positive reviews. Happy customers will also give you honest feedback on how to improve your business.

Monitor Online Conversations

Monitor online channels constantly to find out what customers are saying about your products and services. Digital tools like Social Mention and Google Alerts prompt you whenever your company or brand is mentioned online.

To command a strong online presence, you should endeavor to build and maintain a good reputation. Update your business information on search engines such as Bing and Google. Online communications are now more than just marketing; they are also a platform for you to showcase your commitment to excellent customer service and this is a significant boost to your online reputation.

Vincent Parascandola’s Impressive Career and Accomplishments

Vincent Parascandola is the Senior Executive Vice President at AXA Advisors which is part of AXA Insurance Company. Vincent joined AXA in 2005 and has gone through various levels of management.

He attended Xaverian HS before joining Pace University, Lubin School of Business in New York where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science.

His career kicked off in 1986 when he worked as a system analyst for Irvin Trust Company for two years. He, later on, became an agent for Prudential Insurance and also served for two years. In 1990, he joined The MONY Group where he worked as a Financial Professional for three years before becoming the Sales Manager of the same company. He served in this position for four years, and in 1996, he was made the Managing Director, a post he served for two years. In 1998, he became the new Field Vice President, a position he held for seven years.

In 2005, he decided to change his environment and joined AXA Equitable as the Executive Vice President. He held this office for two years and eight months before he became the President – Advantage Group of the same company. His influence within the leadership of AXA allowed him to become the next President of the Northern Division. He served in this position for one year before he became the President of Continental Division. He stayed in this office for three and a half years and in 2013, he was promoted to Chief Sales Officer and President of Continental Division. His impressive leadership skills within AXA impressed, and he was made Senior Executive Vice President of AXA US, a position he held since 2014 to present.

As the Senior Executive Vice President, he is responsible for developing and facilitating the growth of over 225 financial professionals. He is in charge of recruiting as well as training the firm’s new advisors. He is also tasked with improving the productive capabilities of the company to boost and grow Sales and maintain an acceptable profit margin. He oversees operations in Manasquan, Morrison, and Woodbridge. He is the recipient of Career Development Award from GAMA and also a speaker.


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Goal Setting
Hasse Jansen, 31 Jul '17

Strategic Management in 3 Easy Steps

Successful strategic management is about creating effective routines. Here’s how to formulate and implement goals in three straightforward steps.

Managing your strategy starts with setting goals the right way. We can’t tell you which exact goals to pursue, but we do know there is a specific way to set goals that will help you achieve those goals.

We’ve all experienced how planning strategy is quite easy, but actually executing your plans is very difficult. To make all your ‘dreams’ become a reality, you need to set and update goals in a specific way.

The network of goals that make up your strategy needs to be flexible to remain relevant, but it needs to be well structured to keep it coherent throughout the year.

It may take some getting used to at first, but it will soon become second nature. And the rewards for proper strategic management are staggering.

Goals as the center of the business universe

Successful strategic management revolves around goals. Every strategy, plan, program or task is there to achieve a goal.

The benefits of proper goal setting are huge. Stats show that, when you do it right, goal setting really works. We put the results from a popular scientific study in one single overview.

As it turns out, ‘writing goals down’, ‘formulating action commitments’, ‘writing progress reports’, and ‘sending those to a supportive friend’ makes you almost twice as likely to achieve your goal as ‘just thinking about a goal’ does.

goal setting effectiveness stats

The most popular goal setting method is the SMART goal approach. The SMART acronym stands for…

smart goals acronymQuite many companies have made an effort to make SMART goals a part of their daily routine…

  • 36%of organizations have a standard, enterprise-wide approach to goal-setting.
  • 80%of managers say that their goals are limited in number, specific, and measurable and that they have the funds needed to achieve them

What successful strategic management looks like

These are the 3 steps you need to take to manage strategy in an organized way.

Step 1: Define goals

Step 2: Define strategy

Step 3: Update goals weekly

All clear? Let’s go!

1. Define goals - Drafts, KPIs and Goal Canvases

A. Define your first preliminary goal

There are two ways to start drafting your first goal. You could…

  • Start reasoning from your current activities
  • Think up an entirely new goal from scratch.

Whatever you do, don’t become too nitpicky. This is only a draft goal. We’ll get into the details later on.

When reasoning from current activities:

Collect tasks and vaguely described aspirations from presentations and spreadsheets you have lying around. Take into account all campaigns, all collateral… all everything!

Then, look for a pattern in what you’re trying to achieve when performing these activities. Is there an overarching commercial goal you pursue when performing the majority of tasks?

That should be your draft goal. Write it down.

When you think up an entirely new goal.

Ask yourself: ‘what do I care about?’, or ‘what does my company or department or team care about?’ ‘What do your customers care about most?’. Why are we doing all this? What are we trying to achieve? When would our company be successful? When would I be proud of myself?

That should be your draft goal. Write it down.

If you want to do this exercise in a workshop, here is a One Day Workshop template.

B. Find your KPI to measure achievement

Are you happy with the draft goal you’ve just written down? Now it’s time to make sure you’ll know when you’ve achieved it.

Reaching meaningful goals starts with measuring the right thing. It is absolutely paramount to find the right Key Performance Indicator for every goal.

How do you know if you’ve found the right metric? Take a task or a activity you are working today and simply ask ‘Why’ until you hit the KPI.

Here's what you should do:

  • Ask ‘why’ you pursue your draft goal.
  • Continue to ask ‘why?’
  • But don’t stop now! Ask Why? until you basically can’t go any further.

Look for a goal that can stand on itself. The achievement of this goal should have value in itself, and the achievement of only this goal should be something to be proud of.

For instance, ‘making flawless presentations’ isn’t a good goal in itself. What are you trying to achieve by consistently delivering ‘flawless presentations’? Most of the time, good goals can be expressed in terms of changed customer behavior.

To help you find the right KPI, we’ve created an entire interactive KPI library, featuring 129 of the most popular marketing metrics. KPIs are categorized by funnel stage, making it easy to navigate. And let’s be honest, it doesn’t look bad either.

KPI library funnel

C. Create complete goals using a canvas

 Now you’ve got your first measureable draft goal ready, let’s take it one step further. Let’s set some more detailed goals. We’ve created 3 different goal canvases for you to print out: basic, intermediate, and advanced.

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Which one is best for you depends on your specific needs. Each template has a different level of detail, and different features. Here’s an overview of their pros and cons.

#1: Basic

Pros – Good exercise to practice shaping your SMART Goal setting skills. It’s easy to create a logical structure within your goals. It includes the Definition of Success (DoS).

Cons – Specifying ownership is not possible. That makes it hard to prioritize or track progress e.g. by sending colleagues regular progress updates. Therefore, there is no real accountability ensured.

Definition of Success Boardview

#2: Intermediate

Pros - Easy to build a simple team strategy in the shape of a goal tree. You might want team members to combine their goals into a team strategy, or start from scratch. Impact & Effort allow you to see where most value is created.

Cons - This model does also not allow you to accurately track progress, so sending colleagues regular updates can get messy quickly. Therefore, there is no real accountability ensured. Also, specifying ownership is not possible. That makes it hard to prioritize or track progress e.g. by sending colleagues regular updates. Therefore, there is no real accountability ensured.

Goal setting template 1

#3: Advanced

Pros - Good for when you want to take goal setting to the next level. It includes the Definition of Success, Goal Owner and Goal ROI (impact vs effort). Additionally you can indicate goal status (ideation - archived), and it gives you the ability to track goal and task progress in bars.

Cons - Prioritizing goals as well as tracking progress accurately may prove tedious to do manually many times over.

goal setting template 2 advanced

As you start working with printed goal canvases, you’ll notice that keeping goals updated becomes quite complex very soon. The Boardview app helps to keep everybody informed about newest insights in goal achievement at all times.

Writing goals in the Boardview app is comparable to writing goals on paper canvases, but better. The Boardview Goal Card is made to feel like you’re reading a coherent mission statement in a few short sentences. This is what a blank card looks like:

Working with smart goals templateRemember the SMART goal graphic we showed you earlier? This is how the SMART acronym fits into the Boardview Goal Card.

smart goals in boardview

2. Define Strategy - Build your first ‘Goal Tree’

You now have a bunch of inspiring but unconnected goals lying around. But defining one or a couple of goals in (some level of) detail doesn’t make a strategy. To create a workable strategy, you have to create a coherent network of goals.

A good Goal Tree visualizes how your goals fit together (or how they don’t). It shows you the causal relationships between different commercial goals, and how to-be-performed tasks contribute to achieving those goals.

Here’s what you should do: “ask ‘Why’ So I can”.

  • Have your team members compare their draft goals
  • Ask them to look for overlap in KPIs
  • Shift around goal cards to discover causal relationships
  • See your strategy tree grow

In the Boardview app, it looks like this...

strategic management agile goalsWe’ve created a one-day workshop for this as well.

3. Update goals weekly - Keep goals relevant

We’ve all experienced how an exciting new strategy quickly becomes outdated. Your company’s business environment always turns out to be that little bit more unpredictable than expected.

There’s no use fighting change. Resistance is futile. You have to move with the world around you. To successfully execute a strategy in a turbulent environment, your systems need to be designed to react to change. There needs to be a reliable standard procedure to help adjust to new insights, periodically.

To help you stay on course with strategic management, we’ve developed a meeting to update strategic goals in a consistent way. We called it the Weekly Speed Update.

If you’re familiar with the Daily Standup, that’s great. The Weekly Speed Update is related to it, but entirely different at the same time. The ‘Daily’ focuses more on today’s team tasks, while the ‘Weekly’ is concerned with management’s strategic goals of the future.

View the exact difference between the Daily Standup and the Weekly Speed Update below….

Strategy meeting speed updateThe Weekly Speed Update helps everyone to speak the language of the manager. Showing your manager that a sprint is on track, is rarely a problem. But does your manager care? Probably not. Your manager only wants to be sure that the Sprint results are in line with the commercial targets.

boardview app goal progress graph

The (bi-)weekly meeting is used to report progress to managers, measured in amount of leads, appointments, conversions, CTR’s, market share, revenue, growth, etc… or whichever KPI you picked when you filled out your Goal Card earlier on.

Take the three strategic management steps:

To sum it all up…

Step 1: Define goals

Step 2: Define strategy

Step 3: Update goals weekly

Inspired to step your strategic management game up? Try the Boardview app!

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What’s going on in Charlotte Harbor waters? Mote investigates water quality

Seagrass beds are vital habitat for Florida wildlife, and they may decline if poor water clarity obscures their sunlight. Resource managers in Charlotte Harbor have new tools to keep water clarity on target, thanks to a study by Mote Marine Laboratory and Janicki Environmental, Inc.

The peer-reviewed study was funded by the Charlotte Harbor National Estuary Program (CHNEP) and published in the summer 2016 volume of Florida Scientist.

The study provides new mathematical modeling tools that are helping CHNEP and partners produce a concise and easy-to-understand water clarity report card for resource managers, scientists and members of the public who aim to safeguard Charlotte Harbor’s jewel: more than 62,000 acres of seagrass habitat.

Seagrass beds shelter and feed small invertebrates, shellfish, fish, manatees and more. Resource managers track the health of Charlotte Harbor’s 14 estuary segments, in part by monitoring changes in water quality and clarity. Clarity describes how much light reaches a given depth without being absorbed, scattered or otherwise made unavailable to seagrasses. Clarity is critical but tricky to monitor in shallow estuary waters, where the changing angular distribution of light can challenge even high-quality measuring gear.

To address this challenge, the new study presents an optical model, which translates water quality sampling results — water color, turbidity (cloudiness from particles), and chlorophyll from algae — into water clarity values, describing how much light will be blocked from seagrasses at a given depth. Using water quality data from water samples, the model can estimate clarity more consistently than available instruments can measure it in the field. The new study also provides the water clarity reporting tool produced by Janicki Environmental, Inc., which compares present water clarity with a past reference period, detecting improvements and declines.

“We’ve provided a way to model water clarity more reliably at depths where we want seagrasses to be, to determine if the criteria for light are being met,” said Dr. Kellie Dixon, senior scientist at Mote who developed the study. “If seagrasses are retreating, we need to know if that is due to a change in water clarity. For instance, from freshwater with brown color or runoff carrying fertilizer and other nutrient sources into Charlotte Harbor.”

To create the new optical model, Dixon analyzed years of water quality sampling and light-sensor data from Charlotte Harbor, using only the most reliable data. Using the finished model, Charlotte Harbor-based scientists can plug in their own water quality data — color, turbidity and chlorophyll — to calculate water clarity with more accuracy and precision than ever before.

“This is a wonderful tool for monitoring water clarity,” said Judy Ott, program scientist with CHNEP. “Kellie fine-tuned existing modeling to account for the details of how light is absorbed as it goes around the water column, for waves distorting the light and for the angle of the sun. This is the first time we’ve had a good enough tool to go back in time, to use our water quality data going back to the 1960s and calculate water clarity historically.”

Dixon’s model is also the first to represent how Charlotte Harbor’s water quality affects the individual wavelengths within sunlight, such as blue, green and red. That’s important: seagrasses need specific wavelengths of light.

Ott said that fine-tuning water clarity information helps to fine-tune management. “Seagrass growth depends, in part, on the percentage of light available; they may grow deeper if the water is clear enough. In Charlotte Harbor, our targets for seagrasses and estuary health are based on water quality and clarity. If we anticipate changes in water flow or quality, we can use the optical model to estimate how that will affect water clarity, which will let us focus on projects most protective and restorative of our resources.”

To see how water clarity fares from year to year, the public can visit the water clarity report card on the Charlotte Harbor Water Atlas website presented by CHNEP and the University of South Florida. For example, the Report Card shows that Pine Island Sound had stable and often good water clarity over the past decade, whereas another area called West Wall had declining clarity for the past four years and cautionary scores before that. Scores for most sites vary among years or every few years. Researchers monitor these annual changes for longer-term trends.

Water quality data, used to model clarity, are collected each month by the Coastal Charlotte Harbor Monitoring Network. Partners including CHNEP, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, City of Cape Coral and Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Lee and Charlotte counties collect and analyze about 65 randomized samples each month across Charlotte Harbor, from Lemon Bay through Estero Bay. Field scientists continue to monitor light in the water with increasingly sophisticated gear, which in turn helps to check and refine models such as Dixon’s.

For more information, visit mote.org.


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“Those who read books own the world.” Lost languages, an Algonquin Bible, the Herzogs, and more

A stroll down the corridors of Cambridge’s treasure house.

I visited the Old Library at Jesus College, Cambridge, last week. Prof. Stephen Heath gave an enlightening show-and-tell of the library’s incunabula to me and my fellow pilgrims, John Dugdale Bradley and Michael Gioia (Stanford alums, both). He brought out  an astonishing succession of treasures, including Thomas Cranmer‘s Bible, with its triple columns for comparing the original language (Greek, on the pages I saw) to the Vulgate Latin and English.

“What would you like to see last?” he asked me. What could I say? I had no idea what wonders might be in the back rooms. “Surprise me,” I said.

Marvels tucked away in a corner of Cambridge

And so he did. He brought out another Bible, this one from America. It was a 1663 Bible translated phonetically by John Eliot. The Natick dialect of Algonquin had no written form until he gave it one. He inscribed the particular presentation copy under my fingers for his alma mater at Cambridge, Jesus College. Was the Eliot name a coincidence? I remember a prominent New England family that spawned another famous Eliot, also with one “l”. On the other hand, I also knew that spellings of surnames were very fluid even into the 19th century.

When I got back to California, I checked on John Eliot, the Puritan missionary. He is indeed distantly related to T.S. Eliot, from the same Brahmin family in Massachusetts. Both descended from Andrew Eliot, whose family came to America via Yeovil and East Coker, Somerset.

But the Algonquin Bible haunted me for another reason: I recently attended a private screening in San Francisco of photographer’s Lena Herzog‘s Last Whispers, about the mass extinction of languages. I meant to tell her about the Algonquin Bible on my return, but now this blogpost will have to do. Perhaps the Algonquin language, which still has more than three thousand speakers, owes something to Eliot’s efforts.

The coincidences continued: this week, a new friend, Paul Holdengräber of the New York Public Library, sent me the link for his interview several years ago with Lena’s husband, the unconventional filmmaker Werner Herzog. The Q&A, “Was the Twentieth Century a Mistake?”, touches on the same subject – lost languages. (His comments are unrelated to Lena’s project, although their interests on the matter converge.) So here’s a hefty and relevant excerpt from the conversation between the two men:

WH: But, Paul, before we go into other things, I would linger a little on the twentieth century. And one of the things that is quite evident and looks like a good thing in the twentieth century is the ecologists’ movement. It makes a lot of sense, the fundamental analysis is right. The fundamental attitude they have taken is also right, but we miss something completely out of the twentieth century, which is—

Lena Herzog: a lover of language

PH: Culture.

WH: What went wrong in the culture, yes. That is, we see embarrassments like whale huggers, I mean, you can’t get worse than that, or tree huggers, even, such bizarre behaviour. And people are concerned about the panda bear, and they are concerned about the well-being of salad leaves, but they have completely overlooked that while we are sitting here probably the last speaker of a language may die in these two hours. There are six thousand languages still left, but by 2050, only 15 percent of these languages will survive.

PH: So we are paying attention to the wrong things.

WH: No, to pay attention to ecological questions is not the wrong thing, but to overlook the immense value of human culture is. More than twenty years ago I met an Australian man in Port Augusta in an old-age home and he was named “the mute.” He was the very last speaker of his language, had nobody with whom he could speak and hence fell mute, fell silent. He had no one left, and of course he has died since then. And his language has disappeared, has not been recorded. It’s as if the last Spaniard had died and Spanish literature and culture, everything has vanished. And it vanishes very, very fast. It vanishes much faster than anything we are witnessing in terms of, let’s say, mammals dying out. Yes, we should be concerned about the snow leopard, and we should be concerned about whales, but why is it that nobody talks about cultures and languages and last speakers dying away? There’s a massive, colossal, and cataclysmic mistake that is happening right now and nobody sees it and nobody talks about it. So that’s why I find it enraging that people hug whales. Who hugs the last speaker of an Inuit language in Alaska? So it just makes me angry when I look back at the twentieth century, and I’m afraid it continues like that. And we have got into a meaningless consumer culture, we have lost dignity, we have lost all proportion.

“Ah, people. It’s the books that matter!” (Photo: L.A. Cicero)

PH: In terms of preserving culture, preserving language, we can think of this library, which has many millions of books underground, seven floors of books, and it goes under Bryant Park.

WH: Paradise.

PH: Paradise, as you called it, but when we were underground, you asked the librarian: “In the case of a holocaust, what would we do with the precious books?” And the librarian was rather anxious about that question. [laughter] No provisions had yet been made, and I don’t know if they’ve been made since your question. But I remember the librarian wondering how to answer it. And he said, “Well, in the case of a holocaust, maybe we will come here.” And you said, “Ah, people. It’s the books that matter!” Do you remember that?

WH: Yes, it sounds misleading in the context of the previous, but please continue. [laughter]

PH: Well, the books are the repository of our memories and our culture. So that these languages that are disappearing as we are talking now have a place where they’re archived, where they’re kept, even if the culture itself has become mute, it still can be studied.

WH: But most of the six thousand still-spoken languages are not recorded in written form. So then they disappear without a trace. That’s evident. But, yes, books, sure, we must preserve them and we must somehow be cautious and careful with them, because they carry our culture—and, of course, those who read books own the world, those who watch television lose it. So be careful and be cautious with the books.

Tom Eliot has formidable forebears.

PH: And what you do with your time.

WH: Yes, but we do have disagreements of what are the most precious ones that we would keep. Of course, you would go for James Joyce immediately, and I have my objections, because I think he’s—

PH: Who would you go for?

WH: Hölderlin. No, I mean James Joyce isn’t really bad, but—

PH: James Joyce is on a trajectory for you—

WH: Which went somewhere wrong—

PH: Somewhere wrong, starting with Petrarch and then going to someone such as Laurence Sterne.

WH:. Yes, Laurence Sterne is somehow a beginning in modern literature, where literature really became modern but also went on a detour and the result—

PH: A detour from what?

WH: Detour from what, yes—that’s not easy to say, a detour that leads let’s say to Finnegans Wake, where literature should not end up. It’s a cul de sac, in my opinion, and much of James Joyce is a cul de sac, per se. But at the same time that he was writing, there were also people like Kafka, for example, and Joseph Conrad. I have a feeling there is something hardcore, some essence of literature; and you have it in a long, long tradition and you find it in Joseph Conrad, you find it in Hemingway, the short stories, you find it in Bruce Chatwin, and you find it in Cormac McCarthy.

You can read the whole fascinating interview at the literary journal Brick here. But I can’t help but wonder about something else, related to hugging pandas and kissing whales. This may be the very first era in history where there has been so much sentimentality and affection for animals, and comparatively little for babies and children. (This vegetarian cat-lover pleads guilty, at least a bit.) Why is that? And what does that say for the future of the race?

Meanwhile, enjoy this Huron carol, in a language now extinct. Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary wrote this carol in Wendat (Wyandot) sometime before he was martyred in 1649 – fourteen years before Eliot’s Algonquin Bible.

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  1. George Says:

    “In the Moon of Winter” has a remarkable reach in hymnals–in English, at least. I’ve seen it not just in Catholic but in Anglican and Presbyterian hymnals. I’m not sure how far one would have to search to find in the original.

  2. Mark Alexander Says:

    I am truly afraid that most people now believe that libraries are those spooky old places seen in Harry Potter movies………


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But half of them don't actually practice the Christian faith, their parents say, according to a LifeWay Research survey released today (Oct. 17). And the biggest factor predicting their spiritual health as young adults is whether they read the Bible regularly as kids.

Those are among the findings of the study, which was conducted Sept. 22-Oct. 5, 2016, among Protestant churchgoers about parenting and spirituality. The survey was sponsored by LifeWay Kids for use in the book "Nothing Less: Engaging Kids in a Lifetime of Faith," which was released Oct. 2.

For the study, researchers surveyed 2,000 Protestant and nondenominational churchgoers. All attend services at least once a month and have adult children ages 18-30.

Researchers wanted to know what parenting practices pay off over the long haul when it comes to spiritual health, said Scott McConnell, executive director of LifeWay Research.

"Churchgoing parents want to pass on their faith to their kids -- and to see their children make that faith their own," McConnell said. "But they don't always know how best to make that happen."

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LifeWay Research took a twofold approach to the study.

First, researchers asked parents about 40 factors that could affect a child's moral and spiritual development. Among them: whether the child's parents had been divorced, whether the family prayed or ate meals together, what kind of school the child attended, how often the child went to church or youth group, and even what kind of music the child listened to growing up.

LifeWay Research then asked parents to describe their adult children's spiritual health, using eight observable factors. Each child received one point if he or she:

-- Identifies as a Christian.

-- Shares his or her faith with unbelievers.

-- Is involved in church.

-- Reads the Bible regularly.

-- Serves in a church.

-- Teaches others at church.

-- Serves in the community.

-- Supports local or foreign missions.

Parents gave observations for a total of 3,472 adult children. Eighty-five percent identify as Christians, according to their parents, giving them at least 1 point on the 8-point spiritual health scale. But only 3 percent had a score of 8, the highest possible. Two-thirds had a score of 2 or less. Half had a score of 0 or 1, meaning they either don't identify as Christians (11 percent) or they identify as Christians but have none of the other spiritual practices (39 percent).

LifeWay Research then compared the results of all these young adults to find out which factors predict the highest spiritual condition.

The top factor: Bible reading. Twenty-nine percent of the young adults regularly read the Bible while growing up, according to their parents. On average, that group has 12.5 percent higher spiritual health than otherwise comparable individuals who didn't, LifeWay Research found.

In addition, spiritual health levels are 7.5 percent higher on average for young adults who regularly spent time praying while growing up (28 percent), regularly served in church (33 percent) or listened to primarily Christian music (22 percent) than for comparable individuals who didn't.

And scores average 6.25 percent higher for young adults who participated in a church mission trip while growing up (27 percent) than for comparable individuals who didn't.

Doing all five of these practices in childhood could boost a young adult's spiritual health score 41 percent, putting the young adult above the 90th percentile, McConnell said.

"Practicing your faith -- in specific ways -- really pays off later in life," he said.

Jana Magruder, director of LifeWay Kids and author of Nothing Less, said it's easy for parents to be caught up in the busyness of life -- and not to ground their kids in the practice of reading the Bible.

"The key takeaway from the study is a simple yet profound finding that God's Word truly is what changes lives," she said.

Researchers identified a few factors that point to lower spiritual health for young adults. Those whose parents say they did not want to go to church as teens (22 percent) score 5 percent lower on spiritual health as young adults. Those whose parents say they were rebellious (16 percent) had scores 3.75 percent lower than others, and those who listened primarily to secular music (58 percent) had scores 2.5 percent lower.

Attending popular church activities such as youth groups and Vacation Bible School predicts spiritual health for young adults -- but only when linked to core practices such as reading the Bible and serving, McConnell noted. Other activities, such as family meals, did not show up as key predictors in this study.

Parents' behavior is also related to their adult children's spiritual health, LifeWay Research found. Young adults had higher spiritual health scores if they grew up with parents who spent time:

-- Reading the Bible several times a week.

-- Taking part in a service project or church mission trip as a family.

-- Sharing their faith with unbelievers.

-- Encouraging teenagers to serve in church.

-- Asking forgiveness when they messed up as parents.

-- Encouraging their children's unique talents and interests.

-- Taking annual family vacations.

-- Attending churches with teaching that emphasized what the Bible says.

-- Teaching their children to tithe.

All these little things can pay off, McConnell said, by showing kids what practicing your faith looks like.

"In the end, parents hope the light will go on and their children will want to follow God on their own," he said. "At any age the Holy Spirit can flip the light switch, and these habits can help kids grow in their faith."

The study was sponsored by LifeWay Kids. A demographically balanced online panel was used for interviewing American adults. The survey was conducted Sept. 22-Oct. 5, 2016. The sample was screened to include only Protestant and nondenominational Christians who have a child between the ages of 18 and 30 and who attend religious services at least once a month. Maximum quotas and slight weights were used for gender, region, age, ethnicity and education to more accurately reflect the population. The completed sample is 2,000 surveys. The sample provides 95 percent confidence that the sampling error does not exceed plus or minus 2.3 percent. Margins of error are higher in subgroups.

LifeWay Research is a Nashville-based, evangelical research firm that specializes in surveys about faith in culture and matters that affect churches.

For more information about Nothing Less: Engaging Kids in a Lifetime of Faith, click here.

Bob Smietana is senior writer for Facts & Trends of LifeWay Christian Resources.
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  1. Hi, good to see you posting artwork again. Any chance of some Bill and Albert Holroyd artwork please? Is it possible to identify each brother's artwork easily, as I believe they both had a similar style. Thanks Adrian.

  2. Hey Adrian.

    I was looking at some Bill Holroyd's serious, non-cartoony stuff the other day, so chances are there'll be some up soon. I may put one of Alert's Thingummy Blob strips on here because they are quite mad/surreal.

    Hm, that's an interesting question. I think their cartoony style of drawing is quite different, but when they draw 'realistically' they seem a bit similar. Although, if you compared pages next to each-other I think it'd be readily obvious.

    Here's a link to Peter Gray's site so people can see the work of who we're talking about:

  3. Oh, forgot to say thanks for the kind words. Hopefully I can post more regularly in future. Although, at the momemnt the old iMac has had a brain-fart and is at the doctors. So, defeated by technology...

  4. When are you going to get back to blogging here? You are missed!

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    I'm missed? Aw, thanks. :)

    Hm, yeah, it has been a while, eh? Had a pretty busy time of it over the last (gulp, year) what with work, family and what-not. I'll try and get back into it again on a regular basis.

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We are still selling Jose’s famous pasteis de nata – a Portuguese delicacy that roughly translates to custard tarts. Come along and get one! They’re only B£1.

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Access to and use of the Website is provided by Brixton Pound CIC to you subject to the following Terms and Conditions (the 'Terms and Conditions').

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Brixton Pound CIC  may provide members with the capability of posting to the web site or otherwise transmitting data, text, music, sound, photographs, graphics, video, messages and other materials to or from this web site.

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Without prejudice to the foregoing generality, Brixton Pound CIC hereby exclude, insofar as permitted by law, all warranties and representations, express or implied, in respect of any of the Contents, including but not limited to any information, names, images, pictures, logos and icons forming part of them, including but not limited to warranties of satisfactory quality, fitness for a particular purpose, non-infringement of third party rights or any law, compatibility, security and accuracy.

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You acknowledge and accept that Brixton Pound CIC are not, and shall not be held responsible for any damages, loss, costs or expenses arising from the use of such third party web sites, or products or services available through such third party web sites.

Except where expressly indicated otherwise, copyright in all of the Contents of the Website belongs to Brixton Pound CIC or its third party licensors.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Brixton Pound CIC hereby authorises you as a User to:-
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Brixton Pound CIC  reserves the right to terminate forthwith, or to refuse to permit, the use of the Website by any User, at any time and at Brixton Pound CIC's absolute discretion.

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