What is the Content of Your Parish Council Meetings?
“Let the dead bury the dead.” (Luke 9:60) What do you talk about at your parish council meetings? Blah, blah, blah? Endless discussion of...
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Engaged Listening: A Key Leadership Skill
“Because he inclined his ear to me, therefore I will call on him as long as I live.” (Psalm 116:2) God is the great listener. Even though...
Five Essential Elements of a Successful Parish Leadership Development Program
“Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him...
For New Priests: The Gritty Side of Leadership
Axios! Axios! Axios! You’ve just been given your first parish assignment. Whatever life experience you have been blessed to receive is...
Handling Criticism
“A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” (Proverbs 15:1) All leaders are subject to criticism – sometimes...
The Priest as Boss vs the Priest as Leader
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 7:12) Though every...
The Priest as Change Agent
“Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed.” (I Corinthians 15:51) Perhaps the greatest joy for...
The Ten Tasks of Effective Parish Leadership
“If serving is below me, then leadership is beyond me.” Anonymous Stewardship Advocates has been richly blessed to work with hundreds of...
Warning: The Four Stages of Burnout
“For I will satisfy the weary soul, and every languishing soul I will replenish.” (Jeremiah 31:25) Parish service is stressful, sometimes...
What the Spouses of Priests May Wish for You to Know
For starters perhaps we should begin with the subject of the “role” of the priest’s wife. Please hear this loud and clear: there is no...
12 Questions Every Orthodox Priest May Wish to Ask Themselves
“Know therefore today, and lay it to your heart, that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth beneath; there is no other.”...
Servant Leadership and Parish Council or Board Service
The only appropriate model for parish council members or those who sit on governing boards to fulfill their calling to service is the...
Facilitating Groups
“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.” (Matthew 18:20) Once understood and put into practice,...
Managing Levels of Parish Conflict
“Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger.” (James 1:19) “But when Peter came to...
Crisis Leadership: Errors to Avoid
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God....
Negotiation: Essential Skill for Managing an Orthodox Parish or Organization
“Come now, let us reason together, says the Lord: though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red...
One Theory and Five Styles of Conflict Management
“Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another,...
The Urgent-Important Matrix
“There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.” (Peter Drucker) Every...
Conflict Management: “The Interest-Based Relational Approach”
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9) The “Interest-based Relational Approach”, or IBR...
Courage to Undertake Difficult Conversations
“Do two walk together, unless they have agreed to meet?” (Amos 3:3) In a very concrete way, the extent to which we are willing to have...
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