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  • Are you a newly elected Congregational Board member? Are you wanting to refresh your Board skills? Does your board need to rethink how to be a board in a virtual environment? Then this is your webinar!
    Webinar | By David Pyle, MidAmerica Region of the UUA | May 27, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards, Governance for Congregations
  • Explore both practices of how to care for one another in times of crisis and challenge, but also how the care itself must change because of these times. For Religious Professionals, Lay-Leaders, and Congregation Members who are involved in the congregation’s ministries of caring.
    Webinar | By David Pyle, MidAmerica Region of the UUA | April 20, 2020 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: #COVID19, Pastoral Care, Trauma and Disaster Response
  • What are the basic documents that every board member should have at their fingertips? Here is a handy list to construct your own board manual.
    Leader Resource | By Sunshine Jeremiah Wolfe, David Pyle | January 22, 2019 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Governing Boards, UUA Board of Trustees
  • Congregational Life Staff are often asked who performs executive functions in UU Congregations under policy governance. Here are some considerations.
    Leader Resource | By David Pyle | September 27, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • This video walks you through the basics of reading Congregational financial documents.
    Video | By David Pyle, Beth Casebolt | September 14, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Finance for Congregations, Governance for Congregations
  • When a congregation is in search for a new professional staff member to fill a key and important role in the congregation, whether it is that of a custodian or that of a membership director, an important consideration is how well potential applicants understand and have personal values that are...
    By David Pyle | February 25, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision, Governance for Congregations
  • One of the keys to a healthy congregational staff team is that they understand themselves as a team....
    By David Pyle | February 25, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams, Staffing & Supervision
  • In consulting with congregations about their “Committee on Ministry”, I have learned that a necessary first step is to ask the congregational leaders to tell me what they expect their Committee on Ministry to do.  And in every congregation, the expectations of a Committee on Ministry seem...
    By David Pyle | February 25, 2018 | From LeaderLab
  • After a congregational governing board has begun to transition the operations and management of a congregation out of the governing board and towards the congregational staff or a lay and staff leadership team, I will regularly receive the same question from congregational presidents and board...
    By David Pyle | February 25, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards, Governance for Congregations
  • One of the most common sources of tension in a congregation where conflict occurs that involves governing boards is the relationship between governing boards and the congregation’s professional staff, including the minister.  I have found that much of this conflict arises from the...
    By David Pyle | February 25, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards, Staffing & Supervision
  • Congregational Governing Boards have different structures, cultures, assumptions, and responsibilities in different congregations.  The size and structure of a governing board is dependent upon the roles and responsibilities of the board itself. Here are a series of factors that you can consider as you determine the size of your congregation's board.
    Leader Resource | By David Pyle | February 9, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Governance for Congregations
  • What is the difference between a technical challenge and an adaptive challenge? Rev. David Pyle gives a helpful example.
    Video | By David Pyle | February 9, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Competencies for Leadership
  • Every Unitarian Universalist Congregation is designed differently. How each congregation functions is a blend of congregational experience, culture, and history. Congregational structures are also affected by whether and which other congregations members have attended or been a part of before. W
    Leader Resource | By David Pyle | January 17, 2018 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards, Governance for Congregations
  • This 3-part webinar is a primer in what it means to serve on a Congregational Board, how healthy Boards function, and what are ways your congregation can function better.
    Webinar | By David Pyle, Beth Casebolt, Central East Region of the UUA | September 21, 2017 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governing Boards
  • Abridged Excerpt from “The Future of Justice Ministries” by Rev. David Pyle The Keynote for the UU Pennsylvania Legislative Advocacy Network Annual Meeting 2016 I always default to hope. It is the most constant aspect of my personality. And yet, hope has seemed more difficult these last few days...
    By David Pyle | November 12, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Leadership Development, Social Justice
  • Congregations often look to the corporate and not-for-profit worlds for models of leadership, organizational development, fundraising and volunteer management. Unfortunately, they also look there for models of governance to the detriment of their core purpose....
    By David Pyle | April 15, 2016 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • Practical advice about successfully founding and sustaining a group to provide fellowship and support for our active duty service folx, reservists, veterans and their families.
    By David Pyle, Seanan R. Holland, Cynthia Kane | June 19, 2008 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Military Chaplaincy, Membership Growth & Outreach