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Organizational Leadership
The College for Bishops Leadership Institute was established to provide educational resources for new bishops as well as trending information resources for all bishops. Organizational Leadership focuses on specific resources related to essential leadership skills:
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Team Building
Diversity & Inclusion: A Local Experiment
The challenge with diversity is that it doesn’t go far enough, because to only give someone place and space in your community doesn’t mean that they are fully included and integrated into the community. Olu Brown writes about his church’s journey toward inclusion in this introduction to his book 4D Impact: Smash Barriers Like a Smart Church.
How showing vulnerability helps build a stronger team
If you’d like trust to develop in your office, group or team — and who wouldn’t? — the key is sharing your weaknesses, says business writer Daniel Coyle. At some level, we intuitively know that vulnerability tends to spark cooperation and trust. But we may not realize how well this process works, particularly when it comes to group interactions.
Vestry as a Life-Giving Team
Life-giving teams build community and synergy around a higher purpose while utilizing the gifts of each member of the team. is kind of a team doesn’t just sort of happen. It is the consequence of a process of careful selection, intentional development and team leader training. This article is part of the Episcopal Church Foundation Vital Practices January 2019 Vestry Papers issue on Vestry as Team.
Designing a Staff Team for Ministry
Whether you’re working from the ground up to build an organizational structure where none existed or working with a broken structure inherited from a predecessor, there are basic design features which need to be addressed and resolved. This article from Alban explores several different church leadership models for division of labor and decision making within teams.
The health and vitality of the Episcopal Church depends on the effectiveness of its lay+clergy leadership teams. In January 2014 the Episcopal Church Foundation (ECF) launched a new initiative called Vital Teams, the longterm vision of which is of an Episcopal Church where all congregations, regardless of size or budget, can receive highly effective team leadership training tailored to their specific situation. This webinar provides participants a glimpse of the Vital Teams 101 training curriculum, including a discussion of three areas that good teams are constantly balancing effectively: relationships, process, and results.
50 Ways to Increase Active Engagement
The latest offering from Lewis Center for Church Leadership's popular "50 Ways" series provides strategies and best practices for getting and keeping people in our congregations involved and engaged.