Trinity Lutheran Seminary

Sooner or Later Supervisory Tips

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  1. How you manage conflict and the emotions that come with it.
  2. The difference between being a leader and a manager.
  3. Assisting with the development and administration of a budget that works.
  4. Dealing effectively and professionally with difficult people and tough situations.
  5. Learning to be appropriately assertive.
  6. Winning the support of others for your ideas and positions.
  7. “Planagement” – the art of effective management through planning.
  8. How to manage projects, priorities, and deadlines.
  9. Self-empowerment skills for women.
  10. Developing better presentation skills.
  11. “Image” in ministry.
  12. Stress reduction.
  13. The Pastor as coach.  The pastor as rancher (with lay ministry persons as cowboys).
  14. How your personality influences how you lead in ways that may surprise you.
  15. Examining your operative theology.
  16. Motivation and goal-setting.
  17. Self esteem:  the power to be your best.
  18. Team building.
  19. Listen up:  on hearing what’s really being said.
  20. To meet or not to meet:  how to plan and conduct effective meetings.
  21. The ministry of letter writing.
  22. Learning to delegate – multiply your impact.
  23. The importance of visibility, credibility, and composure.
  24. Time wasters that threaten productivity and distinguish the urgent from the really important.
  25. Intra-staff stuff they don’t teach you in seminary.
  26. How to negotiate a first call compensation package.
  27. Dealing with conflicting or competing demands.
  28. How to “sharpen the saw” – physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually.
  29. How to limit the destructive effects of negative people.
  30. What all “paying the rent” in the parish entails.
  31. What does MISSION have to do with MINISTRY?
  32. Resisting becoming a hireling.
  33. Remembering to be good to yourself, too.
  34. The essentials of maintaining your sense of self worth and self assurance.
  35. On demonstrating the stance of an under-shepherd.
  36. On championing benevolences.
  37. The value of radiating positive energy.
  38. Reflect on what that great mentor of the masses, Satchel Paige, is supposed to have said:  “It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.”
  39. Effective leadership requires major expenditures of effort and energy – more than most people care to make.
  40. Leaders embrace error.  Failure is not the crime; low aim is!
  41. On compensating for weaknesses.
  42. How do you expect to achieve and maintain a wise and renewing balance between work and family and between professional and personal while in the middle of constant pressures and crises?
  43. How can you exercise leadership characterized by change, flexibility, and continuous improvement and still maintain a sense of stability, security, and continuity?
  44. How do you expect to turn a mission statement into the supreme guiding force of an entire organization instead of a collection of nebulous, meaningless, and cynicism-inducing platitudes?
  45. Building stamina for ministry.
  46. Strategies to teach and counsel troubled youth.
  47. How to inspire commitment, teamwork, and cooperation.
  48. How to discipline, correct, and criticize.
  49. On getting useful, reliable feedback.
  50. Humor and ministry OR how not to be intimidated by someone else’s 50-item discussion checklist.