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Can you prevent sabotage?
I once received a cryptic e-mail from a friend.
She’d been less than a year into a new church staff position.
In her e-mail she asked the question, “Can you stop sabotage?”
She didn’t go into details, but obviously, something...
The 100% Myth
You’ve seen it.
After taking a congregational vote to call a pastor the tally shows a majority vote in the affirmative, maybe 90%, or 98%, or maybe 87%.
The decision is made, the new pastor will be called.
But...
Don’t question people’s motives
Years ago I read C. Ellis Nelson’s Don’t Let Your Conscience Be Your Guide ( New York: Paulist Press 1978).
At the time it was a counterintuitive challenge to a commonly held belief, that we should let our conscience be...
Why Leaders Fail
There are many books on leadership and success.
There are fewer about why leaders fail.
Yet, in every field, leadership failures, terminations, and leadership derailment can seem more the norm than the exception.
Every year we read about university presidents...
7 Principles for Better Teaching
“(There is a) remarkable asymmetry between the ways our mind treats information that is currently available and information we do not have. An essential design feature of the associative machine is that it represents only activated ideas. Information that is...
Eight strategies during a crisis
“In the early stages of a conflict, it is almost impossible to overinform.
As much information as possible is needed.
Providing information tends to minimize the need for people to create information for themselves through gossip and embellishments of what...
Leadership 101
Here’s what we know: no organization, be it a corporation, firm, or congregation, will thrive or live fully into its purpose with the absence of effective leaders.
Leadership is the singular irreplaceable element in the formula for success, effectiveness, and...
Guthrie Scholars: Holy Friendships
“Under what conditions are you most productive?”
Her question surprised me.
As a wife, mother, writer, coach, pastor’s wife, grants director and who knows how many other titles I carry, I have learned to be productive in a variety of...
The power of questions in teaching and learning
There are two teaching behaviors that, once mastered, can help the teacher be more effective in bringing about powerful learning in the instructional setting.
These are both fundamental teaching skills (“basic”) but both seem difficult for many teachers to master.
...Developing Your Pastoral Intelligence: Emotional Fitness for Ministry Effectiveness
The fall course, Developing Your Pastoral Intelligence: Emotional Fitness for Ministry Effectiveness, is for clergy serving in congregational contexts who seek to assess and improve their leadership and ministry effectiveness.
The program includes a nine-month coaching relationship...
So what is Education for, anyway?
It’s been an interesting academic year for conversations about educational matters.
Between the systemic COVID disruptions, the frenzied debates about online models of education, curriculum assessments, and consultations with faculty and school administrators about curriculum and learning, attending conferences for...
Amateurs and Professionals
One thought from author Edwin Friedman that has stayed with me is about the difference between a professional and a hack.
He wrote that leadership competence is not about knowledge or expertise; a professional and a hack may know the...
Six Basic Rules for Planning Church Education Programs
Here are six basic rules for planning a church education program:
The persons who show up at an event are the ones who need to be there.
I’m continually puzzled at the over-focus on numbers in congregations.
If 100...
The Times They Keep a Changing: Bivocational Ministry as the New Norm?
Most of the pastors in the world are bivocational.
That has always been true, asserts Karl Vaters, author of The Grasshopper Myth and Small Church Essentials.
Most people attend larger churches, so a larger multi-staff congregation is perceived to be...
