The Effective Church Secretary/Administrator

Leadership and Management Skills for Church Secretaries and Administrators. Learn Office Management and Boardroom Skills

The Effective Church Secretary/Administrator


Objective

The course builds your leadership and management competencies for the delivery of administrative support to ministry.

Course Outcome

At the end of the course, you will be able to:

· Demonstrate and apply skills and competencies for transforming the administrative support services in your church.

· Use ergonomics and technology to achieve efficiency in the church office

· Understand and use financial reports in documenting meetings.

· Identify the steps in delivering and/or writing good news, neutral news, and bad news

· Demonstrate and apply professional knowledge for high performance in your role as secretary of the council of elders and its committees.

What You Will Study

We will cover the following courses/modules:

Module 1

1. Effective Leadership Styles, Skills, and Behaviour

2. Leadership Roles

3. Theories of Leadership: Traits, Behaviour, Situational

4. Strategic Leadership, Charismatic, Transactional, Transformational and Servant Leadership

5. Ethical, Spiritual, Authentic and Team Leadership

6. Leadership Substitutes and Neutralisers

Module 2

1. Leadership Communication Techniques

2. Group leadership communication

3. Virtual leadership communication

4. Delivering good, neutral and bad news

5. Writing business letters, memos and MOUs, reports and proposals

6. Presentation Skills

7. Techniques for planning, organising and delivering presentation with confidence

8. Virtual interviews and meetings

Module 3

1. Origins of the Office

2. Functions and Divisions of the Office

3. Controlling Office Activities

4. Duties and Responsibility of Key Office Personnel

5. Planning Your Office Layout

6. Achieving Efficiency in the Office

7. Stepping up Efficiency through Ergonomics and Technology

8. Ways to Improve Human Relations with Superiors, Colleagues and Subordinates

9. Record-keeping and Information Management

10. Technology Integration in Office Management

11. Creating a Positive Work-Life Balance

    
    

Module 4

1. The Board of Elders and Leadership

2. Role, Composition and Membership of the Board

3. Effectiveness of the Board of Elders

4. Nomination Committee

5. Succession Planning

6. Effective Management of Members’ Meetings

7. Role of the Board Secretary

8. Proxy, Polls and Voting

9. Appointment and Evaluation of Proxies

10. Board and Management Meetings

11. Financial Reporting and Accountability

12. Objectives of Financial Reporting

13. The Audit Committee

14. Using and Interpreting Financial Reports for Decision

Making

15. Determining the Gearing of your Church

16. Financing Church Business Ventures

17. Strategic Thinking in the Boardroom

18. Developing Fundraising Strategies

19. Leading Change within the Church Community

Benefits

· E-Certificate of Participation

· Life-time Access

· Downloadable Video Lessons

· Downloadable Text Lessons

· Quizzes