The document discusses the transition from personality-driven to standards-driven parish management, highlighting the limitations of charismatic leadership such as manipulative behaviors and lack of consensus. It emphasizes the importance of accountability and structured pastoral planning in fostering effective stewardship and organizational health within Catholic parishes. Key strategies include building cohesive leadership teams, creating and over-communicating clarity, and reinforcing organizational values.

1. BEYOND PERSONALITY DRIVEN TO
STANDARD DRIVEN PARISH MANAGEMENT
2015 Mid-Atlantic Congress

2. THE PERSONALITY DRIVEN LEADER

3. EFFECTS OF
UTILIZING CHARISMA
Positives Negatives
• Higher output from
followers
• Broadening and
elevating followers
interests
• Gives meaning and
purpose to followers’
goals
• May not have best
interests in mind
• Manipulations and
exaggerations
• Limiting
communication and
access
• Can be polarizing

4. Personality driven
management
Standards based
management
Limits capacity of mission
Expands capacity for
mission
Lacks consistency and
justice
Consistent and fair
Encourages fragmentation
and politics
Encourages unity
and stability
Creates competition
of resources
Prioritizes resources based
on agreed upon values

5. THE PERSONALITY DRIVEN
FOLLOWER
• Unquestioning acceptance of
the leader
• Utmost trust in the leader and
his decisions
• Willing obedience toward the
leader
• Emulation and identification
with the leader
• Emotional involvement in the
mission

6. PERSONALITY DRIVEN
LEADERSHIP
• Lack of consensus and power sharing
• Demanding and controlling behaviors
• Strong use and preservation of privilege and
influence
on founder’s syndrome
Stephen R. Block, Why Nonprofits Fail

7. Culture Resources
Structure &
Organization
CHANGING CULTURE

8. DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN
GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
Discern the will of
the people
Secular Political Catholic Church
Discern the will
of God

9. TWO REQUIREMENTS FOR
A VIBRANT PARISH
• Pastoral
Planning
• Human
Resources
• Financial
Planning
• Stewardship
• Technology
•Communications
• Minimal Politics
• Minimal
Confusion
• High Morale
• High Productivity
• Low Turnover
SMART HEALTHY
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage

10. FOUR DISCIPLINES
OF
ORGANIZATIONAL
HEALTH
1. Build a cohesive
leadership team
2. Create clarity
3. Over-communicate
clarity
4. Reinforce clarity
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage

11. BUILD A COHESIVE
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage

12. RESULTS IN CATHOLIC
PARISHES AND ORGANIZATIONS
“Central to our understanding of stewardship and development is the concept of
accountability. Dioceses, parishes, schools, and other church-related
organizations that seek to develop urgently needed human and financial
resources need to show that their programs and services truly “make a
difference” in meeting the spiritual, educational, and social needs of the people
they serve.
They also need to give evidence of their long-term stability and growth potential
to encourage investment. This is a basic requirement of stewardship and
development—to render an account of the organization’s use of the time, talent,
and treasure entrusted to its care. As the demand for charitable giving grows
(and competition increases), accountability will become an even more important
indicator of whether an organization is “worthy of investment.”
Stewardship: A Disciple’s Response
US Bishops’ Pastoral Letter on Stewardship, USCCB, 1993

13. CREATE CLARITY
1. Why do we exist?
2. How do we behave?
3. What do we do?
4. How will we succeed?
5. What is most important,
right now?
6. Who must do what?
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage

14. OVER-
COMMUNICATE
CLARITY
1. Key leadership,
volunteers, parishioners
can clearly and correctly
answer 6 questions
2. Leave meetings with clear
and specific agreements
about what to
communicate
3. Use personal
communication as much
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage

15. REINFORCE CLARITY
Develop processes and
policies that support
responses to 6 questions
of clarity
Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage