Managing Staff Challenges with Confidence during the Interim Time

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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;

Holly is an energetic and committed member of the United Church of Christ. She was raised at Myerstown UCC in Penn Central Conference. She has served the church in various capacities; as a Global Ministries Volunteer in India and Korea, as an intern/consultant with the UCC Office of Public Life and Social Policy in Washington DC, as a member of the LCM Board of Directors and as a Trustee for Lancaster Theological Seminary.

Holly has a BA in International Relations and Business from American University and an M.Div. from Lancaster Theological Seminary. She has worked both for Witness for Peace and as a settled local church pastor in central Pennsylvania.

Holly served from 2010-2019 as the Minister and Team Leader for the Ministerial Excellence, Support and Authorization (MESA) Ministry Team in the UCC’s national offices. The newest iteration of the denomination’s Manual on Ministry was developed under her leadership. More recently Holly has served as a local church Interim Minister in the Heartland Conference, as an Interim Associate Conference Minister in the Southern New England Conference and as part of the executive board of the Interim Ministry Network.

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