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  • Sample Scripts from the 2009 UU University Governance Track.
    Leader Resource | By Robert L. Eller-Isaacs, Laura Park | June 20, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • Developed by John Carver, Policy Governance addresses numerous board conundrums—interminable meetings, overloaded agendas, vague accountability, micro-management, and loss of vision! Starting back in the late 2000s, Unitarian Universalist (UU) congregations studied and used the concepts of Policy...
    Webinar | By Robert L. Eller-Isaacs, Laura Park | June 20, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Governance for Congregations
  • Mission speaks to the congregation’s calling, the source of its integrity and it’s central reason for being. What are we called to be and do?
    Leader Resource | By Douglas Zelinski | March 16, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Mission/Vision/Planning
  • Too often our leaders lead from unexamined fear and frustration. We need to lead from our hopes as embodied in the vision of the Beloved Community.
    Audio Recording | By Paula Cole Jones | February 23, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Healthy Behavior, Small Congregations
  • No person is perfect. How do we ask each other to return to covenant when someone makes a mistake?
    Audio Recording | By Karen Brammer | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Covenant, Healthy Behavior, Small Congregations
  • Supporting one another is important, but if that is primarily what you do, then your congregation will decline. For a congregation to be alive, vital, and growing, it must have a sense that it exists to serve as well.
    Audio Recording | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Mission/Vision/Planning, Membership Growth & Outreach, Small Congregations
  • Emotions play a major role in the leadership of congregations, and if we do not take that into consideration as leaders, we will walk into situations that tear at the fabric of communal life and possibly thwart any growth that had been planned.
    Audio Recording | By Richard Speck | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Healthy Behavior, Small Congregations
  • Small congregations are trying to do too much. They are struggling to put together a quality meaningful worship service and a Children’s Faith Development Program every Sunday. Let’s try something different.
    Audio Recording | By Connie Goodbread | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Multigenerational Faith Development, Membership Growth & Outreach, Small Congregations
  • Don’t try to do everything! Instead, figure out what your congregation does well, and do it, and do more of it!
    Audio Recording | By Karen Lewis Foley | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach, Small Congregations
  • In its 7th year and with about 40 adult members, a small congregation in the South realized it was stuck—its membership hadn’t increased in 3 years. True, a few new folks joined each year, but the new folks only replaced those who had moved or left for other reasons. ...
    Audio Recording | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Hospitality, Small Congregations
  • If you’re listening to this CD, chances are you think your congregation is small. But not all small congregations are alike. These differences are not just about numbers. They’re about attitude, and group behaviors, and organizational structure. It helps to know how your congregation does...
    Audio Recording | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach, Small Congregations
  • Change is always difficult, yet it happens every day in our lives in small and big ways. It is also is a regular component of congregational life. When a visitor shows up on a Sunday, the dynamics in a congregation have changed, particularly if the newcomer stays. We all need to be aware of the...
    Audio Recording | By Kenneth Brown | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Change & Conflict, Small Congregations
  • Before we decide whether we want to be an institution, it might be helpful if we thought about what an institution is, and what it is not. ...
    Audio Recording | By Gordon B McKeeman | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Small Congregations
  • Families with children no longer feel a sense of obligation to attend church. Participation in a religious community is often considered one option among many competing interests. How do you go about creating a multigenerational culture in your congregation?
    Audio Recording | By Michelle Richards | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Multigenerational Faith Development, Small Congregations
  • We need to think beyond increasing the membership rolls and focus more on developing what the workshop leaders called an “outward orientation.”
    Audio Recording | February 15, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach, Small Congregations
  • Great leaders continually examine their motives. They ask themselves, “On what principle am I taking this stand? Am I acting for the common good? Am I trying to push a personal agenda? Do I just want my way or is there a principle at stake here?” Great leaders will admit to themselves when they...
    By Connie Goodbread | January 22, 2009 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Competencies for Leadership, Communication
  • Collecting and analyzing data is important as a feedback loop. Here are some tools to help.
    Leader Resource | May 12, 2007 (reviewed March 2024) | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Membership Growth & Outreach