Resources on leadership
Resources useful for leaders
Articles:
- How to Eat an Elephant
- When My Volunteer is Smarter than Me
- Goals Get Us Going
- Stories: God's, Mine, Yours and Others'
- "Remember Middle Management"
- Simple Volunteering
- When Dreams Should Die
- Sacred and Secular Volunteering
- About Time and Talent Surveys
- Screwtape Writes on Church Volunteerism?
- Volunteer Ministry Entrepreneurship
- How to Assess Church Volunteerism
- How to be the Boss
- How to Improve Volunteerism
- An Equipping Culture
- An Equipping System
- Mary the Servant
- Recruiting? or Equipping?
- Tending the Flame
- Lessons of a Book Bee
- The Power of Together
- The Seven Deadly Sins of Leadership
- Volunteers are not Free
- "Building Relationships While Serving" article and accompanying Building Relationships While Serving worksheet with evaluation questions and improvement suggestions.
Explore the connections between faith-based and secular volunteering from both the church and non-church perspectives.
Writing a Volunteer Resume activity
Growing Volunteer Ministry Entrepreneurs lists discussion questions and activities to wisely discern, and to encourage, opportunities when the Spirit is moving people to be entrepreneurs in new ministries. For use specifically with the church governing board, and with groups of staff and lay leaders. Accompanies the article "Volunteer Ministry Entrepreneurs."
What do You do in Your Church?" describes a 15-30 minute activity that can be done with any group of church volunteers, to expand their vision of their volunteer tasks, and to help initiate positive volunteerism change.
How to Be the Boss -- the article, above, formatted as a handout
Conversation Starters, formatted as handout. Questions to initiate worthwhile talk on serving/volunteering, with notes on suggested uses.
Church Volunteers by Karen Kogler - a PowerPoint presentation that uses 1 Corinthians 12 to generate discussion on how seeing ourselves as the body of Christ affects the ways we work together as volunteers in the church. It is designed for use with large or small groups in congregations.
State of Volunteerism; PowerPoint presentation by Karen Kogler - It is common to hear people in the church talk about the difficulty of recruiting sufficient volunteers. This presentation gives some of the reasons why this is so, and proposes a look at what can and should be done about it. Although helpful for any church audience, this presentation is primarily designed for church leaders.
Together in His Service: a set of resources (PowerPoint and PDF's) on 12 topics. The introduction is available free, and two presentation packages are available for purchase.
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