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The Institute for Applied Management
Upcoming Workshops

 

Workshop IV:

Building Effective Relationships with Staff and Constituents

 

Kansas City:
Thursday, March 26th – Registration 8:30 am
Class 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
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Location: Central Baptist Theological Seminary
6601 Monticello
Shawnee, KS 66226

 

"Life is relationships; the rest is just details. This is the greatest truth. Everything in life that truly matters can be boiled down to relationships."

 

- Dr. Gary Smalley, "The DNA of Relationships"

 

Work, home and church, you can't live without them, relationships. Sometimes we manage them well, other times we don't. How important are good staff relationships? How important are good relationships with the constituents? Dr. Gary Smalley's quote above says it all.

 

In this workshop, you will learn:

 

  • Why relationships fail
  • Balancing tasks and relationships
  • The role of trust in relationships
  • How to manage your personal trust list
  • How to manage expectations
  • How to monitor and manage equity in relationships
  • And how to genuinely value people

 

By the end of the workshop, you can expect to:

 

  • Significantly increase knowledge and skill in: understanding, building and maintaining effective relationships with constituents within the confines of day-to-day ministry work.
  • Significantly increase knowledge and skills in: understanding, building and maintaining effective work relationships with staff members within the confines of day-to-day ministry.

 

Each workshop includes a full color manual that provides practical, step by step solutions, forms to use and other practical aids.


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Workshop V:

How to Become an Effective Agent of Change

 

Kansas City:
Thursday, May 21st – Registration 8:30 am
Class 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
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Location: Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church
11100 College Blvd
Overland Park, KS 66210

 

Change is good, you go first!
Ministry leaders, staff and lay leaders are, in reality, agents of change. We seek to inspire people to "daily, become more conformed into the image of Christ".

 

Ministries and churches must grow and adapt in order to continue to be relevant to our current culture. But that requires the use of one of the most deadly terms in ministry today:

 

CHANGE!

 

Many ministry leaders have been hired to help change and grow the ministry, and then fired for creating too much change! We want the ministry to grow, only to find out we have to change to accommodate that growth!

 

Change is inevitable, pain is optional! This workshop will take you on unique and forgettable journey where you will learn by first hand experience the impact of change and then how to effectively lead change on three distinct levels: individual, group, and organizational.

 

In this workshop we will:

 

  • Discover why change is so difficult
  • Learn why people resist change
  • Learn how we can lead others through individual change
  • Learn how we can lead groups through change
  • Learn how we can lead entire organizations through change

 

We guarantee that you have NEVER been to an interactive workshop on change management like this one.

 

Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to get change right!

 

Each workshop includes a full color manual that provides practical, step by step solutions, forms to use and other practical aids.

 

Special note: All participants are required to wear Hawaiian or bright color shirts!


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Workshop VI:

How to Build and Maintain Effective Teams

 

Kansas City:
Thursday, October 8th, 2009 – Registration 8:30 am
Class 9:00 am – 3:30 pm
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Location: Trinity Lutheran Church
5601 W 62nd Street
Mission, KS 66062

 

Psalms 133: "Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers dwell in unity!...for there the Lord has commanded the blessing, life for evermore."

 

UNITY! What a powerful promise, and yet so difficult to achieve! Building a true team is challenging enough... maintaining trust and a strong commitment to community goals is even more daunting!

 

Whether you seek to build a staff team, a team of volunteers or a mixture of both, the health of your leadership teams will significantly impact your ministry’s effectiveness.

 

In this workshop we will examine the necessary components of not just "learning to work together in groups" but actually how to build and maintain a healthy, functioning team.

 

Participants will learn:

 

  • Why teams fail
  • The difference between "groups" and "teams"
  • The stages of team formation
  • The various types of players that form a healthy team
  • The nature of interdependent teams vs dependent teams
  • How to maintain a healthy team

 

Every ministry needs effective teams. Come to this workshop and increase your knowledge and skill in this important area of ministry life.

 

Each workshop includes a full color manual that provides practical, step by step solutions, forms to use and other practical aids.

 

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