Nuts & Bolts for Pastors

Experienced pastors tell us that there are a host of practical management skills they wish they’d had when they went into their first lead pastoral role. Things like planning, staff and volunteer management, publicizing their activities, and practical leadership tips all suddenly seem essential.

Working with Providence Theological Seminary, we have developed a workshop series to meet that need. Focused first on the needs of new pastors, our intention is to provide them with the basic skills of management, adapted to the church setting.

Experienced pastors have also expressed interest in this workshop, as an opportunity to become more efficient on some of the day-to-day administration skills, freeing up more time to concentrate on ministry.

What/Where/When

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Goal

  • To provide practical tools and skills for increasing the effective operation of a ministry organization leading to a greater impact on the Kingdom for the Glory of God.

Draft Schedule

Session 1 Introduction & Overview Jan 10
  • Pastor? Leader? Manager?
  • Building a foundation
  • Planning this workshop series
 Session 2 Planning & Organizing Jan 24
  • Vision & goal-setting
  • Adapting strategy tools to a church setting
  • What structures make sense in your church?
Session 3 Leading Feb 7
  • Defining Christian leadership
  • Dealing with difficult people
  • Guiding teams
  • Creating change
Session 4 Marketing & Communications Feb 21
  • Why communicate?
  • Connecting to your leaders, teams, & volunteers
  • Connecting to your community
  • Marketing without money
Session 5 Human Resource Administration and Management Mar 7
  • Hiring & interviewing
  • Creating & using job descriptions
  • Making evaluations worthwhile
Session 6 Staying on Track & Wrap-Up Mar 21
  • Staff & volunteer accountability
  • Connecting goals to outcomes
  • Building change
  • What’s next?

Each session will include:

  • A short overview of the area of focus.
  • A discussion of how the relevant management skills and tools can best be adapted to a church setting.
  • A case-based application to actual church situations.
  • “Take-home” activities to apply in your church during the two weeks until the next session.
  • The following session will begin with a debrief on the results of the planned activities from the previous session, with a consideration of potential future applications.

Reading List

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Workshop Leaders

This workshop series is led by Bob Fast. Bob began his career with BMO Bank of Montreal in 1980. He was their Area Manager for Personal Banking for 10 years, and was recently appointed to the position of Commercial Account Advisor.

Bob has been involved in leadership at Whyte Ridge Baptist Church for more than 20 years, most recently as their board chair. He is currently Moderator of the General Council (the board of directors) for the North American Baptist Conference. Bob received his MBA from the Asper School of Business at the University of Manitoba in 2009.

Other leaders and presenters in this workshop series include:

  • Yvonne Thompson, CHRP, CHSC

The President of Change Innovators, one of the leading human resources consulting firms in Manitoba, Yvonne is on the board of directors for the Human Resource Management Association of Manitoba, and Past President of the Women Business Owners of Manitoba. She is the author of Leadership for a New World: The Organic Approach to Employee Engagement.

  • Chris Banman, MBA

Chris Banman has an MBA in Marketing from University of Abertay Dundee, President of Orchard Road Marketing Group, and Chair of the Board of Directors of Star Lake Lodge.

  • Bruce Duggan, Director, Buller Centre for Business

Bruce is the Director of the Buller Centre for Business and an Associate Professor of Management at Providence University College.

Media

A pre-workshop article appeared in the November December 2012 issue of MEDA‘s magazine, The Markeplace.

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