Transcript “Things Keep Changing” Who Am I?  A Local Church Administrator  Church Staff - 1977  Germantown Baptist Church  22 years.

“Things Keep
Changing”
Who Am I?
 A Local Church Administrator
 Church Staff - 1977
 Germantown Baptist Church
 22 years
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5 Dysfunctions
Good to Great
An Unstoppable Force
5 Dysfunctions
Dysfunctions
1. Lack of Trust
2. Fear of Conflict
3. Lack of Commitment
4. Avoidance of Accountabilty
5. Inattention to Results
Evidence
Invulnerability
Artificial Harmony
Ambiguity
Low Standards
Status & Ego
Positive Approach to Team
Function
• They trust one another
• They engage in unfiltered conflict
around ideas
• They commit to decisions and plans of
action
• They hold one another accountable for
delivery against those plans
• They focus on the achievement of
collective results
Suggestions for Overcoming
• Dysfunction 1
• Personality profiling
• Birkman
• Myers Briggs
• Dysfunction 2
• Mining
• Dysfunction 3
• Deadlines
• Dysfunction 4
• Publish goals and standards
• Simple progress review
• Team rewards
Keys to Team Building
• Annual planning & Leadership
development retreat
• Quarterly staff meetings offsite- 2
day
• Weekly staff meetings on site
• AdHoc topical meetings
McDonnell Douglas DC-3
McDonnell Douglas DC-3
 Greatest airplane ever designed
 Introduced in 1935
 Ushered in the era of commercial air
travel
 1st plane that supported itself
economically
 1st plane that supported itself
aerodynamically
DC-3 brought together 5
critical component technologies
– each an important part of the whole
 Variable pitch propeller
(made engine more powerful at
all speeds)
 Retractable landing gear
 Flush Riveting
(reduced drag)
(reduced drag)
 Lightweight molded body construction
 Stressed-Skin Structure
(strength)
 Radial air-cooled engine
(lighter, smaller, faster)
 Range, 20,000ft and 1,500 miles
 Wing flaps – new innovation
(double)
(lift)
Today – 5 new “component
technologies” - disciplines
1. Systems Thinking – discipline of
the whole and not parts
2. Personal Mastery – discipline of
 Continually clarifying vision
 Developing patience
3. Mental Models – things that
influence how we understand the
world and how we take action
4. Building Shared Vision
5. Team Learning
The Fifth Discipline
Peter Senge
 “Most changes in organizational
structure are piecemeal reactions to
problems. Real designers are
continually trying to understand
wholes. Just as the DC-3 designers
had to integrate the 5 component
technologies, crucial design work for
leaders of learning organizations
concerns integrating vision, values,
and purpose…..”
AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
Erwin Raphael McManus
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“The purpose of the church cannot be to survive
or even to thrive but to serve. And sometimes
servants die in the serving.”
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“We are in grave danger when we have the most
people and the most money in our history.”
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“The cultural environment became comfortable,
and the gospel shifted from a church “on mission”
to a church that supported missions.”
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“If those who prepare for leadership are looking
for the safe place, who will lead the church into
the dangerous places?”
AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
Erwin Raphael McManus
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“You can change the name, but if you don’t change
the heart, the atrophy will kill you in the end.”
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“Our resolution to be discomforted with
technology will ensure that we remain at least
fifty years behind.”
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We live in a world defined by speed. We get there
faster, get it faster, and want it faster.”
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“Too often, the church becomes our secure place,
our haven from the outside world.”
AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
Erwin Raphael McManus
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“The key to dealing with this rapidly changing
world, to dealing with this culture addicted to
speed, is not to catch up but to give up on keeping
up.”
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“The way not to be overwhelmed by the radical
changes and speed in our world is to know where
you’re going, to know why you’re going there, and
to do it with urgency.”
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“Although change is rarely taught or extracted
from the Scriptures, the Scriptures are a document
about change.”
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“God calls us to take the memories with us but to
leave the memorabilia behind.”
AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
Erwin Raphael McManus
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“Simply stated, if the Bible doesn’t bring change, it
is not being engaged.”
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“We are not only called to be changed and to
embrace change but to be the catalysts of
change.”
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“The further we are from the past, the better we
remember it – but not the clearer. Soon the
details are lost to the dream. In the end what we
remember never existed.”
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“When our children grow up, they mirror what
we’ve really cared about.”
AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE
Erwin Raphael McManus
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“The problem in many of our congregations is not
that we’ve chosen a wrong strategy or have an
irrelevant style but that we have an unhealthy
culture.”
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“When you alter the methods of a church, you are,
in effect trampling memories.”
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“True leaders are able to influence not only
individuals, but also environments.”
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“People know what you care about by what you’re
willing to die for.”
13 Core Competencies (FCBA)
1. Personnel / Human Resource Management
2. Staff Development
3. Congregational Leadership
4. Theology of Stewardship
5. Office Management
6. Information Management
7. Property Management
8. Strategic Planning
9. Financial Management
10. Stewardship of Self
11. Legal and Tax
12. Christian Perspectives & Theology of Church
13. Theology of Church Administration