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Accountable Leadership

Accountable Leadership. CCHWRKALPresentation120312. Accountable Leadership. Core Purpose today is to understand what Accountable Leadership looks like in the local church environment. Objectives : Ensure church leaders understand the key concepts of accountability

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Accountable Leadership

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  1. Accountable Leadership CCHWRKALPresentation120312

  2. Accountable Leadership Core Purpose today is to understand what Accountable Leadership looks like in the local church environment. Objectives: • Ensure church leaders understand the key concepts of accountability • Recognize the connection between Mission / Vision / Goals and how they apply to our ministry • Understand the correlation between church governance and staff organizational structure

  3. “Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age”– JesusMatthew 28:19-20 What does this say to you? What Is Our Mission? • To our church?

  4. Mission Our mission is making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Everything flows from the mission…

  5. Vision… • the unique way a congregation achieves or accomplishes the mission • the key ingredients need to be outwardly focused and measurable • provides a framework for goals and accountability for the congregation and staff

  6. Accountable Leadership Do you want the mission to succeed? “Are you prepared to stake everything, change anything, and do whatever it takes—evenif it means altering long familiar habits, redeveloping precious programs, and redeploying sacred assets?” Tom Bandy From the foreword of Winning on Purpose

  7. Accountable Leadership

  8. Accountable Leadership This workshop is based on concepts from the book: Winning on Purpose: How to Organize Congregations to Succeed in Their Mission by John Edmund Kaiser

  9. Church Leadership Bureaucratic: Responsibility – Authority = Safe but not Effective Autocratic: Responsibility + Authority – Accountability = Effective but not Safe

  10. Bureaucratic:Committee-Based or Consensus-Driven Leadership • The goal, as it’s usually expressed, is to get everyoneinvolved in the decision making process and hence have ownership of the outcome. All opinions and feelings are weighted or valued equally.

  11. Bureaucratic:Committee-Based or Consensus-Driven Leadership • Decisions are slow – if they happen at all. • Decisions, since consensus is the goal, are not always focused on the mission. • Consensus is often not achieved; instead, compromise is the rule. It becomes better to maintain the relationships than fulfill the mission • Consensus is often a vote in disguise

  12. Bureaucratic:Committee-Based or Consensus-Driven Leadership • There is no one person who can be held accountable for missional objectives • The role of the pastor and staff as leaders is limited • The pastor and staff are evaluated by the congregation – power resides with a person or group who does the evaluation

  13. Church Organizational Chart r

  14. Bureaucratic:Committee-Based or Consensus-Driven Leadership Major Downside: The pastor and staff feel triangulated/caught, helpless to effect an outcome for which they feel accountable and/or are held accountable.

  15. The Mission Gets Lost What is the Mission? Church Organizational Chart r

  16. Autocratic:Pastor-Centered or Personality-Driven Leadership • The pastor is held responsible for the church’s success. • The pastor makes all the major decisions

  17. Autocratic:Pastor-Centered or Personality-Driven Leadership 3. Everything revolves around and is dependent upon the pastor’s • Skills • Presence • Charisma

  18. Autocratic:Pastor-Centered or Personality-Driven Leadership • Decisions are made quickly – sometimes impulsive or unrealistically • Dissent is not tolerated • Or, if dissent is allowed, the pastor spends his/her time “putting out fires”

  19. Autocratic:Pastor-Centered or Personality-Driven Leadership • Laity leaders are evaluated by the pastor and staff. Major Downside: • Congregation feels run-over & disconnected from the ministry of the church • Or, power needs are expressed in a passive-aggressive manner that is manifested in chronic conflict.

  20. Autocratic:Pastor-Centered or Personality-Driven Leadership Staff Organizational Chart r

  21. Accountable Leadership Bureaucratic: Responsibility – Authority = Safe but not Effective Autocratic: Responsibility + Authority – Accountability = Effective but not Safe Accountable Leadership: Responsibility + Authority + Accountability = Safe & Effective

  22. Ephesians 4:11-16 • 11It was he (Jesus) who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. 

  23. In this passage, where do you see . . . • Responsibility • Authority • Accountability • To what does it lead

  24. Ephesians 4:11-16 • 11It was he (Jesus) who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. 14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work. 

  25. Staff-LedMission-Driven Leadership • The mission of the church comes first. • Those responsible are accountable. • Must have the right people in place to accomplish the mission. • Small number of decision makers – large number of people in ministry. • Shepherding, including pastoral care, is done by the laity, not the pastor.

  26. Definition - Pastoral Care 5a. Does not mean the office or position of pastor. 5b. Does mean the actions of hospital visits, caring for one another, visiting those in nursing homes, grief care, etc.

  27. Staff-LedMission-Driven Leadership 6. Lots of input – very focused direction 7. Pastor evaluates the staff 8. Everyone is held accountable for the mission 9. Alignment to the mission and vision is critical – not consensus as it is now

  28. Accountable Leadership Responsibility = Object of the Game Authority = Rules of the Game Accountability = How we keep Score

  29. Accountable Leadership - Strengths • Mission/Vision fulfillment is the driving force…not management • Goals and objectives of ministries can be adjusted as needed • Marries responsibility and authority with accountability • Promotes church unity • Functions on a high level of trust • Decisions are made very quickly

  30. Accountable Leadership • Members = Role is ministering • Staff (paid & unpaid) = Role is managing • Pastor = Role is leading • Board/Council = Role is governance

  31. Accountable Leadership

  32. Pastor’s Role • Develops Leaders • Staff • Board • New Leaders • Spiritual Leader / Shepherd • Keeper of Mission • Caster of Vision • Example of Evangelist • Chief Fund Raiser • Main Recruiter

  33. Accountable Leadership Organizational Chart (From Winning on Purpose, by John Edmund Kaiser) And EPHESIANS 4:11-16

  34. When we aim at nothing in particular, that’s what we hit. Meetings & Activities Fulfilling the Mission/Vision

  35. Mission Our mission is making disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world. Everything flows from the mission…

  36. Vision… • the unique way a congregation achieves or accomplishes the mission • the key ingredients need to be outwardly focused and measurable • provides a framework for goals and accountability for the congregation and staff

  37. Alignment

  38. Holding Others Accountable is SIMPLE • S= Set Expectations • I = Invite Commitment • M= Measure Progress • P= Provide Feedback • L= Link to Consequences • E= Evaluate Effectiveness

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  40. Governance Structure

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  42. Staff Growth

  43. Staff Growth

  44. Staff Growth

  45. Staff Growth

  46. Accountable Leadership Organizational Chart (From Winning on Purpose, by John Edmund Kaiser) And EPHESIANS 4:11-16

  47. MINISTERS GOVERNANCE LEADER-SHIP MANAGERS

  48. Governance & Staff Structure sh

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