Testimonials
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"One of the things I especially appreciate about the Plus Program was being able to look at Discipleship from a business model. Kellogg provides a view of ministry that reveals hidden areas and brings things that may have been frustratingly blurry into focus. The timing has been a divine intervention for my ministry. Divinely called and Spirit-driven, I know that my ministry can only go as far as my own humility and willingness to be taught and transformed. Each session takes me to that 'next level.'"
Sarai Case Associate Pastor Tempe First United Methodist Church in Tempe, Arizona
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"I am able to take the lessons learned through the Plus Program and apply them directly to the practice of ministry. I have learned new ways of leading staff and have gained a better understanding of how to budget for outreach ministries. It has been refreshing to get a business education to compliment the M.Div. I earned from Garrett-Evangelical."
Rev. Wes Dorr Minister of Education and Outreach United Church of Rogers Park in Chicago, Illinois
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"This program has allowed me to continue learning and further develop my leadership skills with a community of my peers to support me."
Rev. Nancy Lynn Associate Pastor First United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor in Ann Arbor, Michigan
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"We've heard from professors who have been successful in their ministry, business, and daily life and it was a great thing for us to learn from them."
Bishop Zothan Mawia The Methodist Church of Lower Myanmar (Burma)
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"This program has helped me see beyond my immediate circumstances that there are better ways of doing things than the prescribed method. This is exactly what I needed."
Rev. Wiley Gladney Pastor of Discipleship United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin
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Program Descriptions
Participants in the Plus Program meet twice in an academic year (October and April) for two days over the course of two years. Held at the Kellogg School of Management's Chicago campus (Wieboldt Hall at 339 E. Chicago Ave, Chicago, Illinois), each two-day session is taught by senior facutly and practitioners from Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary and Kellogg School of Management. These sessions are taught in an executive education format that utilizes hands on activities, case studies, and applications tailored to religious professionals. The Plus Program includes:
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Session One: Developing Personal Leadership
Leadership Today – Today’s world presents significant challenges to leaders. The world has changed and leaders need to change too. This session will help the participants better understand their role as leaders managing challenging situations and a wide variety of issues. Key questions such as work/life balance, leading change, and managing people will be addressed.
Leading and Following – Leaders need to understand their dual role as leaders and followers to truly be successful at guiding an organization to success. In this session, pastors will explore the entanglement of being a leader and a follower. Using unique metaphors, the faculty will teach the participants that leading requires moving forward and moving back and the ability to empower others to reach the goal.
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Session Two: Focus on General Management
Finance and Accounting for Pastors – Many nonprofit leaders have moved into leadership because of their commitment to the mission of the organization. Often, these leaders have not had significant management or business training in specific skills like financial management. This session will address the key principles of financial management including understanding financial statements and the trends represented by the numbers, predicting the financial implications of managerial decisions, and learning to work more effectively with financial executives.
Leading Change – In today’s turbulent times, change is a fact of life for most organizations including churches. Whether it is a change in leadership, culture, requirements or demographics, pastors and volunteer leaders play a key role in this dynamic environment. This session will discuss the management of change and the skills necessary to ensure the organization’s future growth. It will address key drivers of change and how to motivate various constituents to support and embrace change.
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Session Three: Exploring Leadership in My Mission
Communications and Building Trust – Building a strong community of trust is essential to success. This session will pastors understand key communications strategies that will lead to the formation of stronger teams and thus greater success within their parishes. Through lecture and several interactive exercises, pastors will learn how to better communicate with internal and external stakeholders, how to deal with breaches of trust and how to motivate the people within the parish.
Team Building – No leader becomes successful working alone. Managers in today’s world rely on teams to help them achieve their objectives, develop new programs and services, generate solutions and expand their vision. These sessions will help pastors design and implement more effective teams in their parishes. They will examine elements of intra-team behavior such as leadership, communication and conflict resolution and inter-team dynamics such as competition. Specific topics addressed in these sessions would be: how to lead a team; how to encourage creativity; how to ensure coordination; how to deal with difficult team members; how to improve the teams' decision-making and performance; and how to get the most out of a team.
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Session Four: Managing People and Resources
Developing People – Parishes today rely on the resources of paid staff and volunteers to support the variety of activities typical of parish life. The pastor is responsible as the leader and manager of these people. This session will help the pastors better understand the critical human resource issues of today’s complex society and help them develop a strong team to support the work of the church. Exercises and lecture will address the issues of managing and leading volunteers, paid staff and key leaders.
Performance Evaluation Managing people is an essential task of any nonprofit leader. This session will build on the Motivating Key Stakeholders session and address the key concepts of performance appraisals of staff and/or volunteers. It would utilize many of the same theories as the previous session, but will apply them in the specific context of face-to-face interactions. The session would be interactive and include a case and an exercise.
Stewarding your Resources – As a church, receiving diverse support from a variety of sources, parishes need to be strong stewards of the time, talent and treasure that is shared with the parish. As the leader, the pastor needs to be accountable for those resources. This session will underscore the importance of on-going development of relationships and maintenance of assets in the care of the parish.
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Session Five: Building External Relationships
Reaching a Diverse Audience - Nonprofit organizations have multiple stakeholders and to be successful, leaders need to identify, understand and reach out to these audiences with different, segmented messages. This session will help pastors: identify their key audiences; learn strategies for prioritizing the audiences and: communicate relevant messages to those audiences.
Branding Your Congregation - Brand image is one of the most important resources organizations have and brands vary in the amount of power and value they have in the marketplace. However, most nonprofit organizations do not leverage their brands effectively. If a nonprofit treats a brand as name only, it misses the point of branding. This session will combine the latest thought-leadership on this topic with practical exercises and will allow faith-based leaders to develop a brand management strategy that will leverage their brand to increase participation and engagement of parishioners.
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Session Six: Capstone Program - The Leadership Challenge
Authentic Leadership – Parishes have a wide array of stakeholders. As leaders, we need to understand the motivations of these stakeholders and use that understanding to connect them to our mission. This session will help pastors think differently about how they approach their interactions with staff, boards, donors and other leaders in their communities to drive success in their parishes. Through lecture, discussion and short case examples, participants will better understand how to make their stakeholders feel connected – to the people their parish serves, to the colleagues who surround them and, surprisingly, even to the competitors.
Conflict Resolution and Negotiations – The Kellogg School is a leader in the field of dispute resolution and negotiation. It is a subject that is critical to building relationships, internally and externally. This session will give the pastors the skills and confidence to plan and implement more effective negotiation strategies and reach more satisfactory outcomes. Working one-on-one and in teams, participants will learn to negotiate deals, resolve disputes and make decisions in competitive environments. Leaders make decisions every day that impact the growth of their organizations. Nonprofit leaders deal with a wide variety of constituents and create key partnerships including those with staff, volunteers, donors, corporations, etc. Often, these are not easy decisions and require a clear understanding of the values and goals of the organization and the goals of the potential partners.
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Meet the Faculty
The Plus Program faculty includes senior faculty and practitioners from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Garrett-Evangelical. Their combination of theory and practice creates a tremendous learning experience for our participants. Throughout each program, faculty present new developments in management theory from an academic perspective as well as practical applications that will work in a variety of ministries and nonprofit organizations. We invite you to get to know some of the Plus Faculty now.
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Gail Berger
Lecturer of Management and Organizations Kellogg School of Management
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Gennifer Brooks
Earnest and Bernice Styberg Associate Professor of Homiletics Garrett-Evangelical
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Barry Bryant
Associate Professor of United Methodist and Wesleyan Studies Garrett-Evangelical
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Michelle L. Buck
Clinical Professor of Management & Organizations Kellogg School of Management
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Lisa A. Fortini-Campbell
Lecturer of Executive Programs Kellogg School of Management
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Mark Fowler
Associate Professor of Church Leadership Garrett-Evangelical
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Liz Livinsgton Howard
Associate Director of the Center for Nonprofit Management Kellogg School of Management
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Thomas N. Hubbard
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Management & Strategy Kellogg School of Management
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Harry M. Kraemer
Clinical Professor of Management & Strategy Kellogg School of Management
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J. Keith Murnighan
Harold H. Hines Jr. Professor of Risk Management Kellogg School of Management
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Marian Powers
Lecturer of Executive Education Kellogg School of Management
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Brent Waters
Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics Garrett-Evangelical
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About the Schools
Building partnerships with nonprofit practitioners is one of the key initiatives of the Center for Nonprofit Management. Founded in 1998 with the support of the WK Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich., the Center builds on the Kellogg School's long tradition of serving the governmental and nonprofit sector with management education.
The Center's mission is to become an internationally recognized resource in the field of nonprofit management education and higher education through our graduate degree and executive management programs. We aim to harness the resources of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University — teaching, research, case writing, consulting and volunteering — to partner with the nonprofit community.
Specifically, the Center has four objectives:
1) to enhance the existing Kellogg School MBA curriculum
2) to expand our outreach and partnership with the nonprofit community
3) to initiate and support scholarly research in the sector and
4) to provide outstanding executive education programs for nonprofit leaders
The Center relies on the expertise of academic faculty as well as practitioners from various areas of the nonprofit sector. It is this bridge between the academic community and the nonprofit sector that makes the Center for Nonprofit Management a unique entity. We encourage you to explore our Web site to learn more about the objectives of the Center and see how we are helping to address the challenges facing the nonprofit world in the 21st century.
Website: http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/research/nonprofit/index.htm
The core purpose of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is to know God in Christ and, through preparing spiritual leaders, to help others know God in Christ.Garrett-Evangelical, founded in 1853, is a graduate school of theology related to The United Methodist Church. Located on the campus of Northwestern University, the seminary serves more than 500 students from many denominations and cultural backgrounds, fostering an atmosphere of ecumenical interaction. Garrett-Evangelical offers degrees for the master of divinity, master of arts, master of theological studies, doctor of philosophy, and doctor of ministry. Its 4,500 living alumni serve church and society around the world.
Mission Statement:
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is a graduate theological school that prepares skilled, bold and articulate leaders who share the transforming love of Jesus Christ. Related to the United Methodist Church, with an ecumenical and international reach, we prepare leaders who are equipped to live and proclaim the Gospel and to teach in diverse congregations and educational settings. Our teaching and learning settings will be places of hospitality where we pursue respect and reconciliation in all encounters.
Garrett-Evangelical is the result of the interweaving of three institutions:
- Garrett Biblical Institute, the first Methodist seminary in the Midwest, was established in 1853 by largely the same church people who founded Northwestern. Founders hoped that the school would shape mind and spirit toward an educated ministry.
- The Chicago Training School, established in 1885, was an important force for women in ministry and for developing service agencies throughout Chicago. CTS merged with GBI in 1934.
- Evangelical Theological Seminary, located in Naperville and founded as a seminary of the Evangelical Church (later the Evangelical United Brethren) in 1873, joined with Garrett Theological Seminary in 1974 to form Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary.
These institutional histories live on in our core values of critical and creative reason, evangelical commitment, and prophetic participation in society.
Website: www.garrett.edu
Fees
FeesThe annual fee for
Plus Executive Education seminars is $2,500 per year and includes tuition, course materials and meals. A non-refundable deposit of $250 is due no later then September 1 to guarantee enrollment in October's courses. The $2,500 annual fee or a payment plan is due prior to the courses in October in order to participate.
To register and pay for your $250 deposit online
click here. Please make checks payable to Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary or pay with a credit card by calling the Office of External Programs at 847.866.4547.
Mail to:
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Office of External Programs
2121 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60201
Please note, participants are responsible for travel and lodging expenses.
Financial Assistance Payment plans and a limited number of partial-scholarships are available for those who need financial assistance. If you graduated from Garrett-Evangelical within the last three years (2011-2013) a discounted rate is available. To learn more, contact Shay Craig in the Office of External Programs at
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or 847.866.4547.
Cancellation Policy There is a non-refundable cancellation fee of 20% of the full tuition ($2,500), if notice of cancellation has not been received within 5 business days prior to the program date.