1. BUILDING LEADERS, SURVIVING CONFLICT & MOTIVATING LAITY AnnMarie Mecera

2. “…effective techniques of human communications, administration and teamwork succeed not because Lee Iacocca invented them, but because they’re accommodating some aspect of our God-given human nature.”

3. “Whether they’re used at Chrysler or Constantinople, administrative techniques that truly support and enhance human fellowship and interaction (the true purpose of administration) are rooted in God’s Truth. The place where these techniques are used doesn’t affect whether they’re godly or not.” Orthodox Christian Meetings

4. Building Leaders Both Clergy AND Laity

5. Building Leaders Empowerment

6. Building Leaders DIFFERENT from Delegation

7. Empowerment vs Delegation

8. Delegation is the assignment of responsibility or authority to another person (normally from a manager to a subordinate) to carry out specific activities. Not a bad thing, but…

9. Empowerment Empowerment is a sound principle for allowing your team to get the job done.

10. Empowerment Promoting production of additional ‘pies’ to feed the parish more richly instead of ‘dividing the pie’ Sharing with the royal priesthood

11. Empowerment Sharing with the royal priesthood

12. Empowerment Empowerment works best when the focus is on implementing pieces of the parish vision or addressing issues that your parishioners greatly care about.

13. Empowerment Is NOT: Passing on unsuitable activities Mundane, insulting tasks Clearly beyond their expertise Abdication of power

14. Empowerment CHECKLIST Determine & quantify the benefits you expect to achieve through empowering your leaders Make sure your leadership knows it will be a fairly long process involving time and other resources Provide training, coaching and other learning opportunities to your leadership Use your theological training to teach your leaders Look at the ‘authorization procedures’ you currently have in place. Are they too much? This may require re-defining decision rights.

15. “Parish Council members, just like church school teachers or choir members, require training that is scripturally based…” Metropolitan Philip, Antiochian Archdiocese

16. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

17. Motivating Laity Reasons Why Parishioners Do NOT Get Involved

18. Motivating Laity

19. Getting hurt Failure (letting God down?) New relationships

20. Motivating Laity What makes people WANT to volunteer?

21. Motivating Laity Positive church atmosphere/happy congregation Clear, positive challenge They are aware of the need They feel a personal responsibility They believe they can make a difference They join their friends They feel obligated (guilt) They have been ASKED!!! But it’s not always ONE specific reason!

22. Remember this from our discussion on Leadership/ Empowerment? Empowerment works best when the focus is on implementing pieces of the parish vision or addressing issues that your parishioners greatly care about.

23. Motivating Laity Different Ministries for Different Folks

24. Motivating Laity Over 65 have time and want to contribute in a meaningful way

25. Motivating Laity Ages 45-65 skilled in their jobs and have professional experience to share; time may be opening up after years of parenting

26. Motivating Laity Ages 30-45 have more limited time because of raising families and/or their career, but still want to serve

27. Motivating Laity Ages 18-30 voracious volunteers, but need opportunities to do things (in their own way in their own time).

28. Motivating Laity “People want to live lives of meaning and significance. This is what the church can do better than any other institution because we are ambassadors of the God’s reign.” Prince Raney Rivers, pastor of United Metropolitan Missionary Baptist Church, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

29. Motivating Laity We have examples of ‘volunteers’ in the Bible: The Disciples The man who fetched the donkey for Christ Those who made arrangements for the use of the Upper Room

30. Motivating Laity Christ is the Ultimate Volunteer

31. Motivating Laity Ask for a return of their gifts and talents they’ve received from God Stewardship Interview: "Giving is Part of our Spiritual Life“ “Our Patterns of Giving”

32. Motivating Laity Being a member of the Body entails ministry; anything from prayer to faithful attendance can be so registered. Anyone without some 'ministry' cannot be ‘en-membered’. Fr. Daniel Rentel

33. Motivating Laity “En-membered” ‘En’: 1. to put into or on 2. To cause something to happen 3. to provide with something. Think in terms of Eucharist what it means to re- member. Thank you, Fr. Dan

34. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

35. Surviving Conflict CHANGE. BREEDS. CONFLICT.

36. SURVIVING CONFLICT “Is this change worth it? What will the gain be?”

37. Surviving Conflict

39. And make no commitments or promises without it!

40. Surviving Conflict

41. Don’t minimize the negatives Openly discuss positives and negatives

42. Surviving Conflict Educate

43. It’s about SURVIVING it. St. Conflictus is right over there. We can make it!

44. SURVIVING CONFLICT Discuss at Parish Council meetings Educational sessions on conflict Ask the parish to pray Pray Get help

45. SURVIVING CONFLICT Consider how to minimize the threat and loss to the parish

46. SURVIVING CONFLICT Allow congregation to share their feelings aka LISTEN

47. SURVIVING CONFLICT From both priest and lay leaders

48. SURVIVING CONFLICT Build a vibrant parish where parishioners can: find the love of God, know they are ‘home’, cultivate their relationship with God

49. QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS?

50. 1. One specific challenge I want to address related to this presentation 2. Laity/Clergy I want to possibly engage in addressing this challenge 3. I will know I have successfully dealt with this challenge when…..