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  • Ideally, policies guiding the minister, staff, and ministry teams come out of mutual conversations to create clarity around roles, responsibilities, and accountability. Ministry policies should feel collaborative and serve to guide ongoing programs and future decisions.
    Leader Resource | November 13, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Bylaws & Policies
  • Safety policies are especially important to have in place before you need them, so they can be thoughtful without the anxiety of a current safety situation.
    Leader Resource | November 13, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Bylaws & Policies, Safe Congregations
  • Many congregations are at a financial crossroads, but are our annual budgeting and financial planning processes up to the challenge? Build your congregation’s roadmap for a sustainable – thriving -financial future.
    Webinar | By Stewardship for Us, Barry Finklestein, Liz Coit | November 11, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Past General Assemblies, Stewardship for Congregations
  • How committees and staff can create a dynamic and engaging stewardship element in a family’s spiritual life.
    Webinar | By Stewardship for Us, Barry Finklestein | November 11, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Past General Assemblies, Stewardship for Congregations
  • In UU congregations, conflict avoidance, a sense of urgency, and either/or thinking can make it difficult to engage conflicts well. We will learn to engage conflicts of various kinds in ways that lead toward Beloved Community.
    Webinar | By Erica Baron, Byron "Tyler" Coles, Sarah Gibb Millspaugh | November 11, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Past General Assemblies
  • Someone has just reached out to you with some critical feedback about the minister. What should you do next?
    Book | By Erica Baron | November 11, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • When your congregation has staff but no staff member is in a supervisory role, you will need to find a volunteer lay leader to fill that role. 
    By Jan Gartner, Renee Ruchotzke | November 2, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision
  • Problems can arise when staff fail to recognize the unique responsibilities and relationships inherent to congregational employment. 
    By Jan Gartner | November 2, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision
  • 11/04/2022 - When a congregation has no clear head-of-staff, the board needs to ensure that good staffing and supervision practices are in place.
    November 2, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Staffing & Supervision
  • Here are the latest insights, ideas, tools, and permission to do the work of the Committee on (Shared) Ministry effectively from Congregational Life Staff.
    Book | By Erica Baron, Sana Saeed, Patricia Infante, Hilary Allen, Melissa James | October 29, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • Help your people learn how to give helpful evaluations and so we can be much better ministers.
    Book | By Erica Baron | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • Conflict engagement requires engaging in healthy communication and modeling healthy boundaries.
    Book | By Sana Saeed | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • One evening at a Board meeting, we came to a question about our definitions of membership....
    Book | By Erica Baron | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • The work of the Committee on Ministry (CoM) is shared ministry, which includes attending to the vitality of the congregation.
    Book | By Sana Saeed | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • Being able to name harmful behaviors is the first step in being able to respond to them.
    By Renee Ruchotzke | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations
  • Assemble a team of people with complimentary skills to serve on the Committee on Shared Ministry.
    Book | By Patricia Infante | October 28, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • The point of a community of practice is for people who want to get better at something to learn from each other through regular interaction. Even people new to a field can help the group learn. Their observations and questions can identify unrecognized practices and raise awareness of which...
    By Meck Groot, Joe Sullivan | October 20, 2022 | From Practice Makes Possible Blog
  • 10/21/2022 - Providing pastoral care enables lay leaders to deepen their faith development and spiritual leadership (even in congregations with ministers).
    October 20, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Pastoral Care
  • 10/7/2022 - Learning to let go and do less can be helpful as we focus on the quality of community and programs rather than quantity.
    October 7, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Shared Ministry Teams
  • The mental model of the "Social Discipline Window" can be helpful in understanding different patterns of how we might respond when someone is causing harm in our communities.
    Book | October 5, 2022 | From LeaderLab
    Tagged as: Conflict Management in Congregations, Covenant