TEAM DEVELOPMENT

Staff Parish Relations Committee (SPRC) Training

• PowerPoint presentation that was made during the recent SPRC training events throughout the Conference (pdf document-updated September 2005).

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• When should the SPRC chair call the district superintendent? (pdf document).

Link to Circuit Leaders Training—The Value of Team Development (pdf document)

Principles:

• Building good cooperative working relationships within the Circuits.
• Building commitment and a sense of meaning to the ad hoc teams this new organization creates.
• Learning to overcome differences in working style and communication style to improve the ease and effectiveness of cooperation between what have historically been fairly independent clergy on the local level.
• Understanding one's own team-participation style so as to:
      (a) better appreciate how others perceive you and
      (b) better adapt your approach in response to the needs of those on one's team.

Link to Circuit Leaders Training—Teams as Shared and Mutual Ministry (pdf document)

Principles:

• Act as a liaison, between the team and project stakeholders.
• Participate as an active member of the team.
• Share responsibilities with facilitator.
• Monitor the team's progress. Pursue data collection, or other requests by the team.
• Remind the team of its mission.
• Share technical knowledge with the team.
• Ongoing monitoring of the team's action after the project team has dissolved.

Link to Leading Change and Managing Transitions

Principles:

• Motivating for Change.
• Establishing a Sense of Urgency.
• Creating a Guiding Coalition.
• Developing a Vision and Strategy.
• Communicating the Change Vision.
• Empowering the Congregation for Broad-Based Action.
• Generating Short Term Wins.
• Consolidating Gains and Producing More Change.
• Anchoring New Approaches in the Culture.
• Starting with Ending.
• Using the Neutral Zone Creatively.
• Launching a New Beginning.

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