Organizational Change

From Tom Bandy

Since I know that many members and lurkers are intereste in your experience, I would like to highlight a few things.

First, I hope everyone sees that this reorganization was not the first thing Jay did. Organizational change never precipitates transformation. Jay started with leadership development, along with systemic change in worship, adult faith formation, eventually property, and so on.

Second. reorganization eventually becomes necessary. Transformation eventually demands it ... and if you don't reorganize then somewhere down the road you lose momentum. A conflict, a lawsuit, a change in key leadership ... any of these can force the church to look to is organizational process. And if that process is the OLD consensus management process, your dead in the water.

Third, the pastor must provide highly credible, assertive leadership. It is always a tightrope ... a fine line between being assertive and mission driven, and having people think you are a dictator. But the key to assertive leadership is that you don't dictate tactics so much as keep people ruthlessly aligned to mission. They can do lots of tactics ... just don't them sidetrack one inch away from the mission.