building healthy board/pastor relations buller centre for business jan 2015 bullercentre.com
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Building Healthy Board/Pastor Relations
Buller Centre for Business
Jan 2015
BullerCentre.com
Workshop Questions
What accountability should there be between senior pastor and board?
How can the roles of pastor and manager be reconciled?
How can a church develop successful hiring, supervisory, and assessment practices for the senior pastor — and for other staff?
What special challenges arise when staff members are also members of the congregation?
Workshop Schedule
9:00intros
9:15clarifying accountability
9:30Ed Neufeld: biblical ideas about leadership
10:30coffee
10:45reconciling roles
11:15hiring, supervision & assessment
11:45a possible assessment tool
12:00lunch: things you’ve always wanted to say
1:00wrap-up
Clarifying Accountability
What accountability should there be between senior pastor and board?• not the same in all traditions
ideal varies reality varies flexibility varies
9:15 - 9:30
Intros
This workshop is based on the assumption that a healthy church needs a healthy board/pastor relationship at its core.
In your experience, is this true? What are the signs that this relationship is
healthy? What are the signs that it’s unhealthy?
9:00 - 9:15
Intros
How important, do you think, are each these factors to having a healthy board/pastor relationship?
agreement on theology shared spiritual life personal friendship good processes
9:00 - 9:15
Clarifying Accountability
Secular management ideas about accountability: in a healthy organization, everyone is
accountable to someone
to understand accountability, ask 3 keys questions: for what?
to whom?
how is it done?
9:15 - 9:30
Clarifying Accountability
What accountability should your senior pastor have?
• for what?
• to whom?
• how should it done?
What accountability should your board have?• for what?
• to whom?
• how should it done?
9:15 - 9:30
Biblical Ideas About Leadership
Ed Neufeld Professor of Biblical StudiesProvidence Theological Seminary
part-time pastor with Kleefeld Christian Community since 1990
http://www.providenceseminary.ca/seminary/faculty_staff/faculty/ed_neufeld/
9:30 - 10:30
Reconciling Roles
Pastor’s Roles(in a “typical” church)
Manager’s Roles(secular situations)
hire, supervise, evaluate, and (sometimes) fire staff
(sometimes) set budgets
meet budgets (sometimes) set
performance targets meet targets
10:45 - 11:15
Hiring, Supervision & Assessment
How can a church develop successful hiring, supervisory, and assessment practices for the senior pastor—and for other staff?
11:15 - 11:45
Hiring, Supervision & Assessment
How are we doing? Why?
Senior Pastor Other Staff Senior Pastor Other Staff
Hiring
Supervision
Assessment
11:15 - 11:45
Hiring, Supervision & Assessment
Good (secular) management practices: hiring
• planned
• documented
• merit only
assessment• annually
• everyone
• written
11:15 - 11:45
supervision• regular
• graduated
• not primarily evaluation
planning
» goals
» actions skill & judgment
development
» coaching
» mentoring
What of this should we adopt in churches?
Hiring, Supervision & Assessment
What changes—if any—do we want to make?
How will we implement those changes?
Senior Pastor Other Staff Senior Pastor Other Staff
Hiring
Supervision
Assessment
11:15 - 11:45
Did we address these questions?
What accountability should there be between senior pastor and board?
How can the roles of pastor and manager be reconciled?
How can a church develop successful hiring, supervisory, and assessment practices for the senior pastor — and for other staff?
What special challenges arise when staff members are also members of the congregation?