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Church Leadership And Infrastructure Development

Strategic Planning Operating Procedure

Purpose The purpose of this operating procedure is to establish, document, and communicate the process for strategic planning at YOUR CHURCH. Scope The strategic planning process is used by senior staff to evaluate the organization’s performance, in terms of meeting stakeholder needs, and to develop a plan to better meet those needs during the coming planning period.  The process begins with an annual strategic … [Read more...]

The New Management System

A "Highly Available" Collection Of An Organization's Documented Infrastructure

If you're a regular Executive Pastor Online visitor, you've noticed many posts containing part or all of the content of a piece of Management System documentation. For example, over the last several months, I've been posting the 50 sections of a sample Staff Policy Manual. I've been working on making Executive Pastor Online's "free resources" available as post content in addition to PDF content. In fact, I will soon … [Read more...]

Assimilation Process Implementation

The Details Of Developing And Implementing An Assimilation Process

I can't tell you the number of times I've been contacted by a church wanting to develop an assimilation process. They have one, and they want to improve it or use Church Community Builder to implement the process. Either way, I'm always happy to help! Remember, though, the assimilation process is just a part of an overall effort to develop strong, solid, and effective infrastructure. And, the heart of any serious … [Read more...]

Building “People Processes”

Using Church Community Builder To Connect And Grow People

One of the things I love about Church Community Builder (CCB) is the ability to build and automate "people processes." You know, like assimilation, serving, spiritual growth and development, etc. I did a post on "Workflow" Process Implementation a while back. In the post, I described the use of "workflow tools" to implement processes and procedures. Here at CCV, we're using two different "tools" for implementing … [Read more...]