Creative organisation

1: Personal support for Christian leaders

Working with all in positions of church and mission leadership to help you to:

•  define your role and priorities
•  understand yourself as the person God has made you
•  organise your life and work effectively
•  manage your own administration and deskwork
•  cope with the pressures of leadership
•  work with (or as) an Associate and in teams.
   
   

2: Management training for Ministers and mission executives

Helping leaders develop good people-skills to enable you to:  

•  understand management and delegation
•  mobilise and support the church’s volunteer workers
•  appoint, manage and develop staff
•  lead small groups and teams well
•  set up and run an effective welcome ministry
•  be aware of relevant employment legislation.
   
   

3: Structural review for Trustees and Church Councils

Designing structures to enable God’s work to flourish by helping you to:

•  appraise the working of the Board (for a mission agency)
•  set up an appropriate leadership team (in a church)
•  structure paid and volunteer staff
•  organise and/or lead business meetings that achieve their aim
•  simplify committee structures to move you into mission mode
•  shape a salary scheme to serve your vision.
   
   

4: Creative tools for strategic planners

Taking a big-picture overview of a church or mission agency by helping you to:  

•  undertake appropriate health-checks and overall assessment
•  explore your Christian foundations and calling
•  clarify purpose and define vision
•  identify distinctive values in a pastoral setting
•  set future plans under Christ’s control
•  discover how to handle issues of organisation and change.
   
   

5: Practical advice for Christian communicators

Offering help to put your message across in a range of settings to enable you to: 

•  understand the communication process (as preacher, speaker, writer)
•  write/design a website, news-sheet or outreach leaflet
•  keep the church in touch through innovative newsletters and reports
•  speak in public or lead a training session
•  lead intercessions or read lessons at church services
•  make good use of the local press and other media for outreach.
   
   

6: Fresh thinking for administrators and helpers

Providing motivation and basic skills to enable you to:

•  assess building needs
• prepare a financial appeal
•  rethink the practice of Christian stewardship/giving
•  run an effective church or mission office
•  understand and appreciate God’s gifts of administration
•  design systems and plan major events.