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Failed Strategy Execution

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / August 17, 2010 / 0 Comments

I’m frequently asked to consult with strategic planning teams as they formulate their process for self study and strategy formation.  In my first meeting with church planners some version of this question inevitably surfaces. “What assurances can you give us that we will actually execute the strategy that we claim during this self study period?”  […]

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Personnel Committee

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / August 2, 2010 / 0 Comments

The personnel committee has the potential to be one of the most helpful or most dysfunctional committees at work in the life of the congregation. The personnel committee serves the governing board of the church in an advisory capacity on issues related to personnel administration. It does not exist to manage the interface between staff […]

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Performance Evaluation: Friend or Foe?

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / July 12, 2010 / 0 Comments

Several colleagues have asked for my response to an interview that took place on NPR last week titled, “Annual Job Review is Total Baloney”.  I imagine that many of you heard or read the interview as well. The interviewee was UCLA business professor Samuel Culbert who claims that annual performance evaluation is dishonest and fraudulent, and […]

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Tracking Membership

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / July 5, 2010 / 0 Comments

The role of membership director is one of the most confused roles that I encounter in large congregations. Is it an administrative role or a programmatic one? Is it mostly about tracking people, their giving and their whereabouts, or is it about developing programs of assimilation and membership? And how is the role related to […]

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Webinars on Supervision

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / May 22, 2010 / 0 Comments

Learn more about staffing and supervision.

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Utilizing Volunteers

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / May 20, 2010 / 0 Comments

At some point in time every large church asks the question, “Are we utilizing volunteers the way that we should?” The question usually emerges in the midst of a budgeting or financial planning meeting as leaders grapple with an ever expanding staff budget, or yet another request for an addition to staff. It seems that […]

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Staff Triangulation

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / May 8, 2010 / 0 Comments

One of the hardest things for staff teams to figure out is how to handle complaints brought to them about other members of the staff team. Sometimes the complaints are brought by members of the congregation and sometimes they are brought by other team members. We call this process triangulation. Person A has a strained […]

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Problem Personality

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / March 12, 2010 / 0 Comments

This week, two different coaching clients have wanted to talk about the same issue. How do you have a supervisory conversation with a member of the staff team who performs well on the essential functions of their job, but has some personality issues? (In one case the employee displays a very pessimistic attitude about everything; […]

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Interim (or not?)

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / February 11, 2010 / 1 Comment

Change in the senior leadership of a congregation is fraught with opportunity and danger. A congregation in the midst of senior clergy transition is likely to experience high levels of anxiety and energy manifested in stagnation, conflict, or in brilliant creativity and rebirth. The Interim period has long been viewed as a special time in […]

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Interim (or not?)

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / February 11, 2010 / 1 Comment

Change in the senior leadership of a congregation is fraught with opportunity and danger. A congregation in the midst of senior clergy transition is likely to experience high levels of anxiety and energy manifested in stagnation, conflict, or in brilliant creativity and rebirth. The Interim period has long been viewed as a special time in […]

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