“Things Keep Changing”

Who Am I?

A Local Church Administrator Church Staff - 1977 Germantown Baptist Church

22 years

Website MinistryWebsite Ministry

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Hot Topics – Church Admin1. Human Resources2. Legal & Tax Reviews

• Private Contractors3. Websites, List Serve4. Copyright Issues5. Intellectual Properties, Creative Rights6. Employment Contracts for Pastors / Staff7. Conflict Resolution8. Conflict of Interest9. Ethics in Business (bidding, RFP, COI)10. Stewardship Trends11. Foundations / Endowments12. Purchasing Organizations13. Spouse Travel14. Lifetime Learning

Hot Topics – Secular Management

1. Web Source National Assoc of Colleges & Employers

2. Retention/Succession strategies 3. Budget realities 4. Conflict resolution 5. Understanding, managing, and

motivating others 6. Coaching and mentoring 7. Engaging high performers 8. Career development trends 9. Lifelong Learning

Resources1. www.churchadminpro.com2. GBC Resources3. Yahoo Listserve4. Generousgiving.org5. Hispeace.org6. Simply Strategic Stuff7. Background Checks - Hammar8. Online Giving9. Xpastor.org10. Human Resources

HR.BLR.com - State HR Answers and Tools online SHRM.org - Society for Human Resource Management

11. Book Reviews• 5 Dysfunctions• Good to Great• An Unstoppable Force

5 Dysfunctions

Dysfunctions Evidence1. Lack of Trust Invulnerability2. Fear of Conflict Artificial Harmony3. Lack of Commitment Ambiguity4. Avoidance of Accountabilty Low Standards5. Inattention to Results Status & Ego

Positive Approach to Team Function

• They trust one another• They engage in unfiltered conflict

around ideas• They commit to decisions and plans of

action• They hold one another accountable for

delivery against those plans• They focus on the achievement of

collective results

Suggestions for Overcoming• Dysfunction 1

• Personality profiling• Birkman• Myers Briggs

• Dysfunction 2• Mining

• Dysfunction 3• Deadlines

• Dysfunction 4• Publish goals and standards• Simple progress review• Team rewards

Keys to Team Building

• Annual planning & Leadership development retreat

• Quarterly staff meetings offsite- 2 day

• Weekly staff meetings on site• AdHoc topical meetings

McDonnell Douglas DC-3

McDonnell Douglas DC-3 Greatest airplane ever designed Introduced in 1935 Ushered in the era of commercial air

travel 1st plane that supported itself

economically 1st plane that supported itself

aerodynamically

DC-3 brought together 5 critical component technologies – each an important part of the whole

Variable pitch propeller (made engine more powerful at all speeds)

Retractable landing gear (reduced drag)

Flush Riveting (reduced drag)

Lightweight molded body construction Stressed-Skin Structure (strength)

Radial air-cooled engine (lighter, smaller, faster)

Range, 20,000ft and 1,500 miles (double)

Wing flaps – new innovation (lift)

Today – 5 new “component technologies” - disciplines

1. Systems Thinking – discipline of the whole and not parts

2. Personal Mastery – discipline of Continually clarifying vision Developing patience

3. Mental Models – things that influence how we understand the world and how we take action

4. Building Shared Vision5. Team Learning

The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge

“Most changes in organizational structure are piecemeal reactions to problems. Real designers are continually trying to understand wholes. Just as the DC-3 designers had to integrate the 5 component technologies, crucial design work for leaders of learning organizations concerns integrating vision, values, and purpose…..”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “The purpose of the church cannot be to survive or even to thrive but to serve. And sometimes servants die in the serving.”

• “We are in grave danger when we have the most people and the most money in our history.”

• “The cultural environment became comfortable, and the gospel shifted from a church “on mission” to a church that supported missions.”

• “If those who prepare for leadership are looking for the safe place, who will lead the church into the dangerous places?”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “You can change the name, but if you don’t change the heart, the atrophy will kill you in the end.”

• “Our resolution to be discomforted with technology will ensure that we remain at least fifty years behind.”

• We live in a world defined by speed. We get there faster, get it faster, and want it faster.”

• “Too often, the church becomes our secure place, our haven from the outside world.”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “The key to dealing with this rapidly changing world, to dealing with this culture addicted to speed, is not to catch up but to give up on keeping up.”

• “The way not to be overwhelmed by the radical changes and speed in our world is to know where you’re going, to know why you’re going there, and to do it with urgency.”

• “Although change is rarely taught or extracted from the Scriptures, the Scriptures are a document about change.”

• “God calls us to take the memories with us but to leave the memorabilia behind.”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “Simply stated, if the Bible doesn’t bring change, it is not being engaged.”

• “We are not only called to be changed and to embrace change but to be the catalysts of change.”

• “The further we are from the past, the better we remember it – but not the clearer. Soon the details are lost to the dream. In the end what we remember never existed.”

• “When our children grow up, they mirror what we’ve really cared about.”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “The problem in many of our congregations is not that we’ve chosen a wrong strategy or have an irrelevant style but that we have an unhealthy culture.”

• “When you alter the methods of a church, you are, in effect trampling memories.”

• “True leaders are able to influence not only individuals, but also environments.”

• “People know what you care about by what you’re willing to die for.”

13 Core Competencies (FCBA)1. Personnel / Human Resource Management2. Staff Development3. Congregational Leadership4. Theology of Stewardship5. Office Management6. Information Management7. Property Management8. Strategic Planning9. Financial Management10. Stewardship of Self11. Legal and Tax12. Christian Perspectives & Theology of Church13. Theology of Church Administration