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Course
It Takes a Team: Managing Staff and Volunteers
~18 Hours
Stop feeling unprepared to manage the staff and volunteers at your church. Start managing your teams with confidence using best practices and tools for leadership. In the course, It Takes a Team: Managing Staff and Volunteers, learn how to develop a practical and biblical philosophy for managing people.
2 instructors
About This Course
Many pastors and ministry leaders struggle when it comes to leading and managing people. And yet, without people—staff members and volunteers—a church cannot do the ministry that God calls it to do. Traditional seminary education gives little attention to managing people, post-seminary training opportunities are limited, and mentors are often pastors who have not received management training themselves. Pastors and other ministry leaders need practical training so that they can become more effective in one of their most important responsibilities. Join Mike Bonem, executive pastor, business leader, and author of five books on ministry leadership, and discover practical guidance for leading and managing people.
This course counts towards the Business of Ministry Certificate.
Learning Outcomes
- List and define the key concepts for developing an effective team
- Develop a practical and biblical philosophy for managing people
- Evaluate your own tendencies that may interfere with your ability to lead and manage staff and key volunteers
- Recommend changes in your church’s current practices related to managing people
Created in partnership with the Church Leadership Institute, which is part of the De Pree Center, and FULLER Equip.
- Administration
- Ministry Admin Training
- Professional Training
- Volunteer Training
Introduction
1. Getting Started
2. The People Challenge
How Did We Get Here?
3. Two Contrasting Pictures
4. Three Common Problems
5. Five Biblical Responses
Finding the Right People
6. Hiring Staff Part A
7. Hiring Staff Part B
8. Lay Involvement—An Added Wrinkle
9. Selecting and Recruiting Volunteers
10. Beyond the Hiring Decision
Developing an Effective Team
11. Coaching
12. Performance Evaluations for Staff
13. Evaluating Volunteers
When Things Go Awry
14. Difficult Conversations
15. Staying Out of Trouble
16. Confidential Information
Conclusion
17. Building a Great Team
18. Putting It All Together
19. Next Steps
Your Instructor
Mike Bonem
Executive Pastor, Business Leader, Author
Mike Bonem is a consultant, coach, author, speaker, husband, and father. He offers a unique mix of world-class consulting and executive leadership experience to help churches, ministries, and their leaders turn vision into results. Mike works with congregations, denominational bodies, and faith-based non-profits on vision discernment, strategy implementation, and organizational design. He also coaches ministry leaders, helping them grow their capacity. He has developed and taught seminars for the Willow Creek Association, The Purpose-Driven Church (Saddleback Church), Christian Leadership Alliance, and Leadership Network. Mike served over 10 years as an executive pastor. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, was a senior consultant with McKinsey & Company, and held executive leadership roles in two businesses. He is the author or co-author of five books on ministry leadership, including his most recent, The Art of Leading Change: Ten Perspectives on the Messiness of Ministry.
CLI
The Church Leadership Institute (CLI) is a consulting and coaching group, a laboratory of church leadership, and the “Harvard Business Review” of the church. While there are a number of good resources and consulting groups at work in the larger church today, the De Pree Center Church Leadership Institute brings four distinct aspects to this work: Convene: Through our alumni and partner organizations, we bring the diverse church together across denominational and cultural lines to address the largest questions and challenges for the widest possible learning. “We talk to people who don’t talk to each other.” Research: Nested in a graduate school, our resources and experiences are grounded and will continually be grounded in research. Ongoing research will enable us to continually learn and offer those learnings to the larger church. Reach: As a non-profit institution with a technology platform and international reach, we can raise money and serve churches that could never afford the expertise of consultant agencies and pour the money from our consulting services back into other congregations, thus strengthening the larger body of Christ Formation: As an institution of formational education, our experience and expertise is on the formation of the inner life, character, resilience, and wisdom necessary for leadership—both individuals and congregations as a whole.
