Shifting the Work of Presbytery

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Shifting the Work of Presbytery

• A Report from the Odyssey Group
• September 18, 2008
• Rev. Dr. Tod Bolsinger

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Review Odyssey Group

• Articulating a vision for the presbyterys next
  decade.
• Reviewing and reframing the presbyterys
  goals/priorities.
• Reshaping the presbytery to be consistent with
  vision and
• goals/priorities.
• Engaging the Presbytery in giving life to the
  future they envision.

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Odyssey Group Process

• September and November Discussing Key Concepts
• January Design Draft
• March-May Discernment

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Odyssey Group Update

• Goal is to have the new design approved at the
  May 2009 Presbytery meeting for implementation in
  the following budget year.

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Key Concepts

• Technical vs. Adaptive Change
• Leadership as Governance.
• The Starfish and the Spider

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Resources
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Review

• Technical Challenges vs. Adaptive Challenges

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Technical Challenges
Application of current knowledge, skills and
tools to resolve a situation.
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Adaptive Challenges
Cannot be solved with ones existing knowledge,
skills and tools, requiring people to make a
shift in values, expectations, attitudes or
habits of behavior.
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What is the shift that we need to make in
order to be an even more missionally
effective Presbytery?
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Confessions of a Woeful Weekend Warrior
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I needed to shift from trying harder, to
training differently
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At the moment of crisis, you will not rise to
the occasion, you will default to your training.
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Necessary Shifts

• Structure
• Presbytery meetings
• Culture
• Staffing and Budget

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Shifting the Structure
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Fiduciary
Are we keeping our trust? What requirements do
we need to fulfill? What MUST we do or fail
utterly in our reason for being?
Generative
Strategic
Missional Fruitfulness
Fiduciary
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Fiduciary Questions

• What structure best insures fiduciary
  accountability and effectiveness?

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Strategic
What do we need to do to fulfill our mission?
What is the best strategy for accomplishing our
objectives? What do we need to do to be
effective?
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Strategic Questions

• WHERE is the best arena for executing the
  mission of Los Ranchos Presbytery? What is the
  best strategy for facilitating missionally
  effective congregations? What is the specific
  strategic purpose of a Presbytery?

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Generative
What emerging challenges are we facing? What
shift of perspective will generate new strategy?
How do we express our values in a changing
world?
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Generative Questions

• How can Presbytery become a culture that
  learns and generates faithful responses to a
  changing world?

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Key Thoughts

• Without Fiduciary DECISIONS, we do not exist.
• Without Strategic THINKING, we cannot effectively
  fulfill our mission.
• Without Generative INSIGHTS, we will never
  develop new responses to a changing world.

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Our structure must

• Insure fiduciary effectiveness
• Insist on strategic effectiveness
• Instill Generative effectiveness

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Closing Thoughts

• What would it take to make this meeting the most
  stimulating, helpful, and important meeting on
  every pastors calendar?
• What would it take to make this meeting the one
  that every elder WANTED to go to?

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Radical Idea

• What would it take so that we NEVER had to take
  roll and EVERYONE would want to come?

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Its probably NOT throughtrying harder