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    Clergy Quick Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff. Also... evaluating staff and evaluating yourself
    Clergy Quick Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff. Also... evaluating staff and evaluating yourself
    Clergy Quick Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff. Also... evaluating staff and evaluating yourself
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    Clergy Quick Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff. Also... evaluating staff and evaluating yourself

    By John Zehring

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    This booklet guides clergy to tend to your leaders and to build a team with your staff. Teamwork is more important than any single individual’s contribution. Clergy become mentors to their staff, and advocate on their behalf. Clergy inspire, motive and provide meaning and purpose to volunteer leaders. A shared ministry which is proactive and collaborative guides your congregation to becoming the most a church can be. Also included are tips on staff evaluations as well as the pastor’s annual evaluation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJohn Zehring
    Release dateNov 2, 2017
    ISBN9781370724765
    Clergy Quick Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff. Also... evaluating staff and evaluating yourself
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    John Zehring

    John Zehring has served United Church of Christ congregations as Senior Pastor in Massachusetts (Andover), Rhode Island (Kingston), and Maine (Augusta) and as an Interim Pastor in Massachusetts (Arlington, Harvard). Prior to parish ministry, he served in higher education, primarily in development and institutional advancement. He worked as a dean of students, director of career planning and placement, adjunct professor of public speaking and as a vice president at a seminary and at a college. He is the author of more than sixty books and is a regular writer for The Christian Citizen, an American Baptist social justice publication. He has taught Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Educational Psychology and Church Administration. John was the founding editor of the publication Seminary Development News, a publication for seminary presidents, vice presidents and trustees (published by the Association of Theological Schools, funded by a grant from Lilly Endowment). He graduated from Eastern University and holds graduate degrees from Princeton Theological Seminary, Rider University, and the Earlham School of Religion. He is listed in Marquis' WHO'S WHO IN AMERICA and is a recipient of their Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. John and his wife Donna live in two places, in central Massachusetts and by the sea in Maine.

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      Clergy Quick Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff. Also... evaluating staff and evaluating yourself - John Zehring

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      Encouraging Leaders and Staff

      Also… evaluating staff and evaluating yourself

      John Zehring

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      Thank you for downloading this eBook. This book remains the copyrighted property of the author and may not be redistributed to others for commercial or non-commercial purposes. If you enjoyed this book, please encourage your friends to download their own copy from their favorite authorized retailer. Thank you for your support.

      Copyright 2017 John Zehring

      Introduction

      Tend to your leaders. Build a team with your staff. Those two statements describe a philosophy which will serve you well as you guide your congregation into becoming the most a church can be. Yet, how easy it is to slip away from these simple guidelines because of lack of time or lack of skills or experience. This is a proactive, collaborative, democratic and people-oriented philosophy which is unique to congregations. This booklet, The Quick Clergy Guide to Encouraging Leaders and Staff, serves as a reminder as well as a primer for being a mentor to and advocate for your staff. Reporting structures in congregations can be complicated and sometimes not even logical. And yet, one thing that ungirds your role as pastor is the drive to build the staff into a team, recognizing that teamwork is more important than any single individual’s contribution. Build a team. Tend to your leaders. Rise each morning and ask yourself How can I tend to my congregation’s leaders today? Guidelines are provided for how to inspire, motivate and provide meaning and purpose to your volunteer leaders – supplemented by quotations offering wisdom from the ages.

      Encouraging your staff recognizes that their annual job performance evaluation provides you an opportunity to acknowledge and appreciate their achievements and strengths, as well as to reinforce formally the expectation that teamwork ranks highest in any evaluation of job performance. And, you too are an employee and are subject to evaluation, which is best done annually and not neglected for years at a time. Also included in this booklet are some ideas for how to approach your self-evaluation as well as your evaluation by church leaders… with the recommendation that the annual evaluation is also a time for you to evaluate the church.

      What’s in a word? Leader. Manager. Administrator. Minister. Servant. Volumes have been produced about each, sometimes promoting one at the diminishment of another. To some, leader = good, manager = low level. To some, administrator = paper shuffler. In this booklet, let’s assume they are all good and all important. Let us also assume that clergy as leaders are different than other kinds of leaders, like a CEO, president or a boss. In some denominations, the congregation is in charge. In some, the pastor is the CEO. In others, someone outside the church like a bishop may be in charge. And yet, there are leadership arts needed to be practiced by clergy regardless of the church’s polity. Indeed, one of the most important leadership arts is to understand how leadership really happens in your congregation, which is sometimes not obvious at all. Perhaps the highest leadership art is

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