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Read MoreOne 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 […]
Read MoreI hope that you’ll consider joining me at this upcoming Alban sponsored 2 1/2 day event on Building Staff Collegiality April 27, 2010 – April 29, 2010 Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center , Lake Junaluska, North Carolina Facilitator: Susan Beaumont The seminar is scheduled to begin at noon with lunch on the first day and end […]
Read MoreI hope that you’ll consider joining me at this upcoming Alban sponsored 2 1/2 day event on Building Staff Collegiality April 27, 2010 – April 29, 2010 Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center , Lake Junaluska, North Carolina Facilitator: Susan Beaumont The seminar is scheduled to begin at noon with lunch on the first day and end […]
Read MoreThis 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; […]
Read MoreChange 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 […]
Read MoreChange 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 […]
Read MoreIn the past month I’ve been in three different congregations who are all grappling with some version of the following question; how do we keep track of where and when our clergy staff is working? Everyone becomes defensive when the question is raised. Clergy staff takes offense. In the posing of the question it seems that […]
Read MoreI’m working in a congregation that has one of the most remarkably collaborative staff teams that I have encountered. Every member of the team is eager, willing and able to help every other member of the team. There are no artificial boundaries between the important spiritual work of some staff members and the more mundane […]
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