Michael Gecan Industrial Areas FoundationCONECT Connecticut Affiliate February 7 2015 FIRST CONTRAST Bureaucratic Parish or Congregation Physical Structures Maintain Expand ID: 418411
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PRESENTATION TO THE SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF BRIDGEPORT
Michael GecanIndustrial Areas Foundation/CONECT (Connecticut Affiliate)February 7, 2015Slide2
FIRST CONTRAST:
Bureaucratic Parish or Congregation
Physical Structures Maintain Expand
React to
Relational Parish or Congregation
Leaders and Potential Leaders
ID, Engage, Train, Push
Support
Iron RuleSlide3
FIRST CONTRAST:
Bureaucratic Parish or Congregation
Procedural/Programmatic Structures Committees
Meetings
Officers,
etc
Relational Parish or Congregation
Mission/Business
Question
Constituents?
Now? Future?
Teaching/TrainingSlide4
FIRST CONTRAST:
Paper and the New Paper
Experimentation/Trial and ErrorSlide5
FIRST CONTRAST:
Another way to say this:
All great organizations and institutions enable three things to happen: relating
,
learning
, and
acting effectively
. Slide6
So, the challenge is not just choosing something to do or focus on –
what you are doing
-- but to be very aware of how you are doing what you do.
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SECOND CONTRAST:
Service Approach
Advocacy
Approach
Relational Organizing Approach
Identify
Need
Identify Cause
Test a Theme or Themes
Allocate Staff/Resources
Pick
a Spokesperson
Listen to Many Constituents
Create
a Program
Frame
Issue/Language
Form an ad hoc team
Deliver services
Mobilize others
Do in-depth research/analysis,
Action and evaluation
People=customers/clients
People=followers
People=leaders
and ownersSlide8
*Dietrich Bonhoeffer:
“The first service that one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them…..Those who cannot listen long and patiently will always be talking past others, and finally will no longer even notice it….The death of the spiritual life starts here….”
*Martin Buber:
“
All real living is meeting.”
(
Not meetings
)