1. Building Healthy Board/Pastor Relations Buller Centre for Business Jan 2015 BullerCentre.com

2. Workshop Questions  What accountability should there be between senior pastor and board?  How can the roles of pastor and manager be reconciled?  How can a church develop successful hiring, supervisory, and assessment practices for the senior pastor — and for other staff?  What special challenges arise when staff members are also members of the congregation?

3. Workshop Schedule 9:00intros 9:15clarifying accountability 9:30Ed Neufeld: biblical ideas about leadership 10:30coffee 10:45reconciling roles 11:15hiring, supervision & assessment 11:45a possible assessment tool 12:00lunch: things you’ve always wanted to say 1:00wrap-up

4. Clarifying Accountability  What accountability should there be between senior pastor and board? not the same in all traditions  ideal varies  reality varies  flexibility varies 9:15 - 9:30

5. Intros 9:00 - 9:15

6. Intros This workshop is based on the assumption that a healthy church needs a healthy board/pastor relationship at its core.  In your experience, is this true?  What are the signs that this relationship is healthy?  What are the signs that it’s unhealthy? 9:00 - 9:15

7. Intros How important, do you think, are each these factors to having a healthy board/pastor relationship?  agreement on theology  shared spiritual life  personal friendship  good processes 9:00 - 9:15

8. Clarifying Accountability Secular management ideas about accountability:  in a healthy organization, everyone is accountable to someone  to understand accountability, ask 3 keys questions:  for what?  to whom?  how is it done? 9:15 - 9:30

9. Clarifying Accountability  What accountability should your senior pastor have? for what? to whom? how should it done?  What accountability should your board have? for what? to whom? how should it done? 9:15 - 9:30

10. Biblical Ideas About Leadership Ed Neufeld  Professor of Biblical Studies Providence Theological Seminary  part-time pastor with Kleefeld Christian Community since 1990  http://www.providenceseminary.ca/seminary/f aculty_staff/faculty/ed_neufeld/ http://www.providenceseminary.ca/seminary/f aculty_staff/faculty/ed_neufeld/ 9:30 - 10:30

11. Biblical Ideas About Leadership 9:30 - 10:30

12. coffee 10:30 - 10:45

13. Reconciling Roles  How can the roles of pastor and manager be reconciled? 10:45 - 11:15

14. Reconciling Roles Pastor’s Roles (in a “typical” church)  Manager’s Roles (secular situations)  hire, supervise, evaluate, and (sometimes) fire staff  (sometimes) set budgets  meet budgets  (sometimes) set performance targets  meet targets 10:45 - 11:15

15. Reconciling Roles Pastor’s Roles (in your church)  Manager’s Roles (in your church)  10:45 - 11:15

16. Reconciling Roles Pastor’s Roles (in your church)  Manager’s Roles (in your church) 

17. Hiring, Supervision & Assessment  How can a church develop successful hiring, supervisory, and assessment practices for the senior pastor—and for other staff? 11:15 - 11:45

18. Hiring, Supervision & Assessment How are we doing?Why? Senior PastorOther StaffSenior PastorOther Staff Hiring Supervision Assessment 11:15 - 11:45

19. Hiring, Supervision & Assessment How are we doing?Why? Senior PastorOther StaffSenior PastorOther Staff Hiring Supervision Assessment

20. Hiring, Supervision & Assessment Good (secular) management practices:  hiring planned documented merit only  assessment annually everyone written 11:15 - 11:45  supervision regular graduated not primarily evaluation  planning »goals »actions  skill & judgment development »coaching »mentoring What of this should we adopt in churches?

21. Hiring, Supervision & Assessment What changes—if any—do we want to make? How will we implement those changes? Senior PastorOther StaffSenior PastorOther Staff Hiring Supervision Assessment 11:15 - 11:45

22. Hiring, Supervision & Assessment What changes—if any—do we want to make? How will we implement those changes? Senior PastorOther StaffSenior PastorOther Staff Hiring Supervision Assessment

23. A Possible Assessment Tool Gina van der Linde 11:45 - 12:00

24. lunch Things you’re always wanted to say. 12:00 - 1:00

25. Did we address these questions?  What accountability should there be between senior pastor and board?  How can the roles of pastor and manager be reconciled?  How can a church develop successful hiring, supervisory, and assessment practices for the senior pastor — and for other staff?  What special challenges arise when staff members are also members of the congregation?

26. Building Healthy Board/Pastor Relations Thank-you! BullerCentre.com