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Pastoral Transition-Lifting the Veil of Secrecy

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / July 15, 2014 / 0 Comments

Organizations in all walks of life openly plan for leadership transition. The Church is unique in the veil of secrecy that we draw around pastoral transition. We don’t want to watch people grow anxious, so we withhold known information about departure. In doing so, we postpone the hard adaptive work of leadership transition into the […]

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Is Our Busyness Masking Spiritual Boredom?

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / July 10, 2014 / 0 Comments

The large church is known for the quality and depth of its programming, and for the exhaustion of its staff team. It’s true, every one of my client congregations is functioning with a burned out staff team, and pastors on the brink of exhaustion. We assume that a growing and thriving church is always adding […]

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How to Have a Better Conversation

By Susan Beaumont & Associates / July 2, 2014 / 0 Comments

Board leaders long for meaningful meetings. Instead, many participate in mind-numbing meetings that repetitively chase topics, with little forward momentum. Agendas are rigidly structured around the receipt of reports, with little work that actually impacts the future of the congregation. What would it take to foster more fruitful board conversations? Recently, I observed a board […]

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