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Leadership Principles PDF Print E-mail

In an interview with Bob Buford of Leadership Network, Drucker made the following observations on leadership:

1. The Mission Comes First. And the mission of all non-profits, including churches, is changed lives!

2. The Function of Management (in a church) is to make the church more church-like, not to make the church more business-like.

3. Management is a Social Function and has mostly to do with people, not things and procedures.

4. An Organization Begins to Die the day it begins to be run for the benefit of the insiders and not for the benefit of the outsiders.

5. Know the Value of Planned Abandonment.Decide what not to do. Drucker says, "Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

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Leadership Training PDF Print E-mail

We offer a number of leadership training opportunities within our conference. We are also always on the look out for training opportunties for our ordained and lay leadership offered outside of our network. Below is a list of the leadership opportunities available through our conference to UCC leaders across the country.


Psalms, Theological Reflection & Spirituality
Synoptic Gospels & Preaching
The Acts of the Apostles & History of the Christian Church
History & Polity of the UCC
Worship & Sacraments & the Eucharist in the New Testament
The Pentateuch & Christian Education
The Hebrew Prophets & Social Transformation
Pastoral Care & the Parables of Jesus
Evangelism & Congregational Renewal
Capstone Course: Christian Ethics
 
Assessment Tools PDF Print E-mail

Leadership assessment is a critical part of developing church leaders for our current world. Finding leaders with strong integrity, vision and communication skills is our goal in the UCC. To that end, we have developed or discovered a number of assessment tools which help us all evaluate and train our emerging leaders. Some of these tools include:

SEC Steps for Assessment for New Church Development  (PDF link)
DISC Profile
SEC Written Interview (PDF link)

For more information about these tools, click here.

 


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