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For New Priests: The Gritty Side of Leadership

By Anthony Scott on February 15, 2016 in Lead, Manage

You’ve just been given your first parish assignment. Whatever life experience you have been blessed to receive is about to be thoroughly tested and reconstituted.

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The Sometime Challenge of the Professional Volunteer

By Anthony Scott on February 12, 2016 in Articles, Manage, Nonprofit Community, Volunteers

What a blessing it is when a working professional offers their assistance in service to the parish! And yet there may arise managerial challenges to the relationship.

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Storytelling Part V: Objection-Slaying Stories

By Anthony Scott on February 12, 2016 in Articles, Communicate, Conflict Management, Lead

Patricia Bouteneff offers practical help in managing potential parish conflict.

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Powerpoints and More Powerpoints

By Anthony Scott on February 11, 2016 in Campaign Planning Study, Capital Campaign, Church growth, Communicate, Develop, Endowment, Envision, Evangelization, Facility, Fundraise, Grants, Lead, Major Gift, Manage, Ministries, Office Management, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Planned Giving, Projects, Resources, Stewardship, Strategic Planning

A collection of Powerpoint presentations for Orthodox parish and organization development.

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Five Essential Elements of a Successful Parish Leadership Development Program

By Anthony Scott on February 3, 2016 in Church growth, Develop, Envision, Lead, Manage, Ministries, Recent Posts, Strategic Planning, Volunteers

Build leaders. Then let the leaders build additional leaders. And so the parish grows and fulfills its mission.

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Is Your Parish Ready for Envisioning and Serious Planning? An Eight-point Check List

By Anthony Scott on February 2, 2016 in Develop, Envision, Lead, Manage, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Recent Posts, Strategic Planning

Prepare before jumping into envisioning and strategic planning

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The Ten Tasks of Effective Parish Leadership

By Anthony Scott on December 2, 2015 in Communicate, Envision, Lead, Manage, Office Management

Compare one’s own list of important tasks or roles as a church leader with these ten suggested ones.

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Clergy Taxes and Proper Classification

By Anthony Scott on December 1, 2015 in Articles, Manage, Office Management, Parish Council or Board Development

Clergy taxes have bedeviled many priests and parish councils struggle to ensure proper classification. Here is the beginning of help.

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Parish Council Meeting Challenges and How to Address Them

By Anthony Scott on October 30, 2015 in Conflict Management, Develop, Draft to Post, Lead, Manage, Parish Council or Board Development

Parish council meetings have the actual potential of being the highlight of a priest’s monthly tasks. That’s the good news. The more difficult news is that to achieve this will take time and energy.

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The Orthodox Clergy Survey 2015 (Full Report)

By Anthony Scott on September 5, 2015 in Articles, Church growth, Evangelization, Fundraise, Lead, Manage, Newsletters, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Volunteers

346 Orthodox clergy participated in answering 12 simple but possibly revelatory questions in the Orthodox Clergy Survey helping to identify the challenges and joys of contemporary parish ministry.

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Retaining Volunteers: the “Stay Conversation”

By Anthony Scott on September 5, 2015 in Manage, Ministries, Volunteers

Here is a very practical tool in helping priests to retain key volunteers with the well being of the volunteer foremost.

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What the Spouses of Priests May Wish for You to Know

By Anthony Scott on August 3, 2015 in Communicate, Conflict Management, Manage

For starters perhaps we should begin with the subject of the “role” of the priest’s wife. Please hear this loud and clear: there is no longer a standard defined “role” for the spouse of a priest. There are as many roles as there are spouses of priests! This in no way denigrates the traditional pattern […]

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Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast

By Anthony Scott on August 2, 2015 in Develop, Lead, Manage, Parish Council or Board Development, Plan, Strategic Planning

If you want vision and strategy to succeed, it will be necessary to analyze, understand and engage the culture of the parish and be prepared for push-back.

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Important Tasks the Senior Priest dare not Delegate

By Anthony Scott on June 30, 2015 in Develop, Envision, Lead, Manage, Nonprofit Community, Office Management

The massive responsibilities that a priest bears makes it difficult to read any article that begins “important tasks”. Yet if these are attended to, the smooth running office lightens other burdens.

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The $50,000 Parish Program or Project Development for Spiritual Development

By Anthony Scott on June 30, 2015 in Develop, Lead, Manage, Plan, Projects

Develop a Parish Program or Project in 10 Steps

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Invest in Staff and Volunteers

By Anthony Scott on June 1, 2015 in Develop, Lead, Manage, Office Management, Plan, Resources, Volunteers

Successful Orthodox parish leadership means empowering staff and volunteers. Invest in them!

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12 Questions Every Orthodox Priest May Wish to Ask Themselves

By Anthony Scott on April 27, 2015 in Lead, Manage, Ministries, Resources

Pause a few minutes in reflection.

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Sample Template for a General Survey of the Parish

By Anthony Scott on April 17, 2015 in Communicate, Develop, Lead, Manage, Ministries, Plan, Services, Strategic Planning

Well done surveys with good reporting back to the parish is a wonderful way to listen to the community.

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What do clergy do all week? Findings from the U.S. Survey of Congregations

By Anthony Scott on April 5, 2015 in Articles, Communicate, Manage, Services

Compare your non-Sunday morning work load and type of work with Catholic and Protestant pastors. Of course this will vary by size of parish, age of clergy and “energy quotient” of the pastor.

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Do’s and Don’t’s for Gratitude Letters to Donors

By Anthony Scott on April 2, 2015 in Capital Campaign, Communicate, Endowment, Fundraise, Major Gift, Newsletters, Office Management, Parish Council or Board Development, Planned Giving, Stewardship, Volunteers

Complaint is poverty. Gratitude is riches.

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