Category: Leadership Development

Posted in Church Decline, Church Growth & Vitality, Governance, Leadership Development, Managing Expectations, Mission and Vision, Volunteers Tagged with

14 min 03 s

Rev. Jeff MacDonald

  • How a part-time pastorate can actually be more empowering for lay people;
  • How part-time ministry can be a career boon for creative types who have other streams of income;
  • How a part-time pastorate can be life-giving for both the pastor and the congregation;
  • How a part-time pastorate can create a grounding and stable life for the creative gig worker;

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Posted in Change Management, Church Growth & Vitality, Conflict Management, Healing / Grief Work, Leadership Development, Pastoral Care, Self-Care Tagged with

10 min 50 s

Rev. Pegi Ridout

  • The difficulty with conflict isn’t that we have it, it’s that we don’t know how to do it well.
  • How do we treat conflict as gift? How do we get there?
  • Respectful communication guidelines developed by Eric Law at the Kaleidoscope Institute
  • trust, respect, listen, then speak.
  • Conflict skills/muscles are built through practice;
  • Pegi’s 3 types of practice for building our conflict muscles;
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Posted in Boundaries, Church Growth & Vitality, Conflict Management, Healing / Grief Work, Leadership Development, Pastoral Care, Self-Care Tagged with

11 min 59 s

Rev. Pegi Ridout

  • Why understanding and managing bullying behavior effectively is so critical to the health of a congregation;
  • Pegi’s 3 types of church bullies (Canaries, Porcupines, Skunks)
  • Strategies for dealing with each type of bully;
  • Some bullies have an important message for the congregation;
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Posted in Boundaries, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Governance, Leadership Development, Managing Expectations, Staff, Team Building Tagged with

10 min 19 s

Rev. Holly MillerShank

  • Some routine things the interim minister can do to create containers for the challenging staff conversations that will likely come;
  • The plusses and minuses of having a staff person report to a committee versus reporting to an individual person;
  • Recommended staff practices to put in place as the Interim;
  • Some difficult conversations that interims need to have with staff;
  • Tips for teambuilding among the staff;
  • Creating accountability relationships with staff;
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Posted in Church Growth & Vitality, Contracting and Negotiating Before Beginning, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Leadership Development, Preaching, Worship Tagged with

13 min 23s

Rev. Quentin Chin

  • Bringing 1 Corinthians 12 to life;
  • How clergy and congregation can make space for each other to shine!;
  • Collaborative ministry requires clergy and congregation to share with each other their respective strengths and weaker areas – especially important for part-time pastorates;
  • Some of the things I’m doing to prepare the congregation for a potentially indefinite period of part-time pastorates;
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Posted in Church Growth & Vitality, Faith Formation, Governance, Leadership Development, Self-Care, Team Building, Volunteers Tagged with

10 min 07 s

Rev. Dawn Adams

Innovative adaptions of governance to help engage younger generations;

Ways to make it easier for people to say, Yes, to serving;

Innovative ways to helps parishioners feel connected to the congregation and serve with joy;

The Spirit can often work through, No, not just through, Yes.

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Posted in Change Management, Church Growth & Vitality, Conflict Management, Leadership Development, Mission and Vision Tagged with

11 min 38 s

Rev. Dr. Terasa Cooley

What gets missed when decisions are made quickly;

Benefits of the “How might?” question;

Framing a question for maximum engagement;

By changing yourself, you can actually help change others – it’s contagious;

We carry conflict in our bodies;

Make complexity your friend;

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Posted in Assessments and Evaluations, Change Management, Church Growth & Vitality, Entering and Engaging the Congregation, Governance, Leadership Development, Managing Expectations, Team Building Tagged with

18 min 49 s

Rev. Peter Ilgenfritz & Rev. Todd Weir

How church leaders learned to see the bigger picture – from the balcony rather than just the dance floor;

Equipping lay leaders to be able to lead collaboratively with the next settled pastor…

Tips for the interim minister when following a strong successful settled pastorate (it’s not as easy as it sounds);

How to effect change at the cultural level, not just the program level – with examples;

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18 min 50 s

Rev. Peter Ilgenfritz & Rev. Todd Weir

Some specific examples of nurturing & empowering the staff during the interim time;

Implementing a staff evaluation process during the interim time – some specifics;

How having a staff evaluation process in place is so helpful to the next settled pastor;

Questions to ask to help staff thrive;

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Posted in Change Management, Church Growth & Vitality, Governance, Leadership Development, Pastoral Care, Team Building, Volunteers Tagged with

11 min 31 s

Rev. Joe Graumann

Are your Church Council meetings a drag? You know – people come because they have to, persevering through a meeting that’s bogged down in procedures and run with a lack of imagination. Boring! Lots of time and energy is wasted. When can I go home?! If so, Rev. Joe Graumann offers some simple changes that can make Council meetings more fun and productive – ones that people will actually looking forward to attending – in this episode titled, “Flipping and Equipping the Church Council for Fun (enjoyable) and Productive Meetings”

Using the Relational Model for Council meetings – put cool stuff up front and

Reports submitted in advance;

Tapping into the flexibility offered by Roberts’ Rules;

Moving New & Old Business before the committee reports;

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