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Leadership Fundamentals For Ministry

Are you a ministry leader looking to deepen your leadership skills and amplify your impact within your church or organization? Join us for five weeks of practical learning and engagement with peers in ministry, guided by seasoned leadership coaches. This series is designed specifically for ministry leaders—pastors, elders, lay leaders, and volunteers—providing tools and strategies to help you navigate the unique challenges of ministry leadership with authenticity, grace, and effectiveness.

A $399 value exclusively for the Ministry Forum audience generously subsidized by Ministry Forum.

What's Included:

  • A 75-minute weekly Zoom gathering over 5 weeks

  • 5 customized modules

  • A focus on practical tools and models you can apply immediately

  • Peer coaching and learning

  • An optional 15-minute group Q&A time with the facilitators immediately after module

Tuesdays at 1:00 p.m. ET via Zoom

  • January 28, February 4, February 11, February 18, February 25

Who Should Join:

  • Clergy, Church Staff, Elders, Volunteer Leaders

 

Modules Included:

Building Trust
Trust is the bedrock of strong relationships and a valuable currency for all leaders. Learn how to forge new habits that will help you build trust with your peers, staff, volunteers and congregations members, and identify behaviors you can start putting into practice today.

Bold Conversations
The ability to have an honest yet difficult conversation is critical if you want to lead with integrity and grace. In this module, you’ll learn how to have bold conversations that will increase awareness and help modify behaviour, especially with challenging volunteers or staff. Take home a useful template to help you prepare well for bold conversations.

Hiring, Firing and Performance Management with Staff & Volunteers
There are fundamental skills in managing staff and volunteers that all leaders need to do well: hiring effectively, managing performance, and terminating wisely and sensitively. Sadly, ministry leaders often learn these as they go, and miss essential elements that can protect them and their church. Based on experience and best practices, we’ll explore these essentials.

Executive Presence
Based on the concept of Executive Presence as a superpower, we’ll explore a model built around the acronym CAPE™: Communications, Actions, Polished Presence & Emotional Intelligence. Learn how to accelerate your impact and increase your self-awareness, skills and approach in all four categories.

Navigating Toxic Cultures & Leaders
Toxicity in the church and workplace affects everyone. It negatively impacts productivity, performance and morale. In a word, it makes people miserable. How can we identify it and how might we manage through toxic situations? We’ll explore how to identify signs of toxicity and how to effectively navigate it as leaders.

Doreen Harvey began her practice as an independent Human Resources Consultant over 20 years ago following her role as VP of HR at Sanyo Canada and senior leadership roles at Nortel Networks. She is passionate about helping leaders engage their people and align their HR strategy to their business strategy, building a culture that motivates. Clients include churches, small to mid-sized enterprises, in various industries, as well as social profit organizations. Doreen holds an MBA from the Schulich School of Business at York University and an HBA from The Ivey School of Business. She is certified in EQ-i/EQ360 (Emotional Intelligence) and is a member of the Strategic Capability Network.

To Contact Doreen: deharvey@hr-consultant.ca

Marla Konrad is a leadership coach and consultant, who draws on years of experience as an executive, and combines this with powerful communications and coaching skills to develop leaders at all levels. She is certified to coach and train with EQ-i/EQ360 (Emotional Intelligence) and the Enneagram and teaches in the ExecEd program at the Schulich School of Business. Prior to launching her own practice, Marla was Vice President of Executive Affairs at World Vision Canada. She is an Accredited Business Communicator and has a BA and MA from Western University.

To Contact Marla: marla@marlakonrad.com


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