Partnering with Laity: Improving Culture and Processes to Achieve Excellence

A Two-Day Workshop for Clergy, with John Dyer, sponsored by the Leadership Development Team

November 5-6, 2018
Catholic Conference Center, Hickory, NC

Registration is $50 per person, which includes meals (lunch Monday through lunch Tuesday) and overnight lodging.

How does the word “Excellence” apply to the United Methodist Church? What does excellence mean to a grieving father who just lost his wife to cancer or to a first-time visitor wanting to learn more about how a relationship with Jesus Christ can improve their lives? How would a chaperone for a group of youth about to embark on a mission trip to Uganda for the first time define excellence? What would an excellent process look like when trying to maintain (or even expanding) church facilities or when addressing the financial side of ministry? Excellence is a goal many organizations around the world are trying to achieve by improving their leadership skills, defining and improving their processes, and developing an inspirational vision to clarify a direction forward. Many of these same tools and methodologies can be applied to the UMC to help develop a culture of partnership between clergy, staff, and laity that, with God’s guidance, can achieve amazing results.

You are invited to join John Dyer, a life-long member of the United Methodist Church with over 30 years of experience helping organizations achieve their improvement goals, in a two-part training event. The first session will consist of a two day, highly interactive, hands-on training class that will help clergy leaders focus on developing, coaching, and mentoring their staff (if applicable) and lay leadership to achieve significant improvement in processes and culture.

Senior Pastor, Karen Easter Bayne had this to say after attending this training: 

“All of us who took this course agreed that this class has the greatest potential for transformation of local churches.  Any clergy or church leader who attends John’s workshop will find lots of practical ideas to help their church become more effective and fruitful.  Our leaders are still talking about the ideas he  taught, the focus he helped us claim for the year ahead, and how much more hopeful and excited they are about ways we can make improvements that will bring new life to Dilworth UMC.  They were engaged and had fun.”

Key Takeaways:

• Learn the difference between management and leadership and the 4 different styles of leadership and which style is appropriate for a given situation
• Explore what it takes to develop a successful team plus learn tools that will help a team define and improve a process such as Process Mapping, 5S, PDCA, and techniques to help a team reach consensus on a path toward improvement
• Understand the difference between Mission, Vision, Strategy, and Values and how each can be used to develop an inspirational and exciting path toward excellence