Stepping Up to Supervision
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What you will learn
Preaching? Check. Teaching? Absolutely. Visiting the sick and working to make your community better? Yes, please. All of that may come naturally compared to supervising other people. If you feel like your education prepared you for everything but this critical part of the job, you’re not the only one.
Supervision—especially within congregations and faith communities—requires a unique set of skills to be successful. This course is where those skills are developed.
In Stepping Up to Supervision, you'll experience hands-on training and practical wisdom that includes:
- The importance of job descriptions and how to design them effectively
- How to hire the right people, so that managing becomes easier
- Techniques for setting performance expectations
- What to do when terminating employment becomes necessary
- The interface between employment and covenantal relationships
- …and so much more!
Sometimes, a shift is really just an acknowledgment that business as usual no longer works — and that maybe it never did. Case in point: you may have inherited or even established some ineffective ways of managing the people on your staff. Stopping that may be complicated, but it isn’t impossible. We can help.
Stepping Up to Supervision is your chance to figure out how to manage the culture of your church staff in a sustainable way. Whether your hiring, firing, delegating, or empowering, this course will give you the skills and confidence you deserve.
Course Agenda
Meet the Instructor
Rev. Susan Beaumont
Susan Beaumont is a consultant, author, and spiritual director, as well as an ordained minister within the American Baptist Churches, USA. She has worked with hundreds of faith communities across the United States and Canada and is especially known for her ground-breaking work in the leadership dynamics of large congregations.
Before establishing her own practice, Susan worked for nine years as a Senior Consultant with the Alban Institute. Susan has also served on the faculty of two business schools, teaching graduate-level courses in leadership, management, and organizational behavior, with hands-on corporate experience in human resource management and organizational development. She currently teaches at Wesley Theological Seminary.
Susan is the author of How to Lead When You Don’t Know Where You’re Going: Leading in a Liminal Season, and Inside the Large Congregation. She is also the co-author of When Moses Meets Aaron: Staffing and Supervision in the Large Congregation.
With an M.B.A. from Northwestern University and an M.Div. from McCormick Theological Seminary, Susan is known for blending best business practices with careful spiritual reflection. She moves naturally between discernment and decision-making, nurturing the souls of leaders and institutions alike.
Registration Info
- Three virtual sessions
- Course videos, study materials, and instruction
- A safe place to learn and community for support
- 9 contact hours
At checkout, choose between $195 upfront or three payments of $65.
