Author: tim

Emotional and Social Intelligence is a critical issue in Pastoral Leadership.  I enjoyed spending the day in Adelaide reflecting on this subject with a group of Churches of Christ pastors at Magill.  We explored the Emotional and Social Intelligence framework and sought to apply some of the insights to issues in ministry leadership.  A church scenario was used to earth the training in typical relational issues in churches.  We concluded with some reflections on mentoring and team covenants.  Links to notes are listed below.

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Workshop 8 in our Church Consultancy Training program covered the second part of the basic unit on Congregational Recovery.  We worked our way through a case study looking at the issues involved, process in crisis management, the recovery phase and processes of restoration.

Links to files will be made available through dropbox.  I will send a notification to all team members when the links are uploaded.

I appreciated the opportunity to work with the Diocese of Sydney Parish Recovery Teams today for Workshop 5 of our Training Program on Recovery.  We looked at two current consultancies and continued training and resourcing on the Recovery and Restoration phases of consultation.

All the training files are now linked through dropbox.  I sent out the invitations following training and most consultants should now be able to access training materials.

I enjoyed catching up with Baptist friends and working with Jill Martin from the Anglican Diocese of Tasmania and Brenda Williams from the Baptist Union of Victoria for a Pastors and Church Leaders Training Day in Launceston.

On the issues around professional standards, power and leadership, I used two Presentations, the notes of which are available below.  Reference was also made to a Team Covenant. 

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