Every one-to-one recruitment invitation should include these four major components which are based on paying attention to the individual and building authentic relationship.

Leadership Development should be an ongoing process in your congregation that includes the following practices: Identify: Who is Called to be a Leader?...

Contextual Sensibility—one of the recommended leadership development competencies—include: Understanding what is happening in the world around us. Understanding how changes in society and demographics impacting our congregations, e.g. in today’s world each congregation has to make a case for...

Systems Sensibility may be the most important of the recommended leadership development competencies—it includes: The ability to understand that we are all interconnected and interrelated. Understanding that a change in one part can have an effect on the other parts, even if we can’t see direct...

Leadership development in our congregations should be an extension of faith development. But our congregational leaders need more than technical training, they need a combination of skills, sensibilities and internal qualities to enable them to be both effective and faithful....

Service is a cornerstone of Unitarian Universalist identity, and of UUCDC membership. Through service, not only do we play our part in healing our broken world, but we also find the opportunity to grow our own faith and spirituality, and to enhance our relationships with others.

Here are some guiding questions and ideas about including a youth on your congregation's board.

Dynamic congregations rarely have a hard time dreaming new dreams, but many struggle to choose from among a parade of compelling ideas about how to use their time and energy.

Innovation! Adaptation!! Experimentation!!! We live in a time of incredible change and shifting paradigms. Technology continues to zoom along at a pace that is breathtaking and society seems to be chomping at the bit for the next big thing. At the same time, some of the things we thought we could...

Learn how the human brain is impacted by anxiety in organizations like congregations.

CAR Care Leads to Trust Based on https://books.google.com/books?id=s3n-LlLkGIcC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v… Thin Book of Trust by Charles Feltman When assessing trustworthiness in yourself and others, there are four major qualities to look out for: Competence ability to perform a task or get a job done.

Many congregations start the church year with a retreat for the Board of Trustees (including the Minister). Ideally, this retreat is held Friday evening through Saturday afternoon, at a site away from the place you usually meet.

Healthy and transparent communication needs to be mutual, with all parties taking responsibility for their words. Leaders should have firm policies against accepting anonymous feedback.

These workshops have been created by the staff of the Central East Region to present for congregations or groups of congregations. If you see a workshop you would like offered in your area, please reach out to your primary contact to start the conversation.

One of the keys to a healthy congregational staff team is that they understand themselves as a team....

Congregational boards are intended to provide collective discernment;rather than be a forum for competing interests or agendas. Faithful boards arein alignment with and accountable to the mission and vision of the congregation.

a. Speaking with One Voice b. Team Players: Interpersonal Dynamics c. Minutes and Records

What is the difference between a technical challenge and an adaptive challenge? Rev. David Pyle gives a helpful example.

Organizations, like all systems, seek equilibrium. If a congregation is thrown out of balance by the prospect of change, most members will seek to restore order and sameness. This is natural and should not be a reason to judge one another. Healthy organizations have developed the ability to be

Video, based on the book Taking Your Church to the Next Level: What Got You Here Won't Get You There by Gary L. McIntosh