We create practical educational resources and provide training to help leaders learn, grow, and strengthen their leadership practices.
We create practical educational resources and provide training to help leaders learn, grow, and strengthen their leadership practices.
The Ministry Failure Prevention Toolkit is a free educational resource designed to help ministry leaders strengthen three important areas.
Examine and maintain your spiritual life, heart, character, calling, and personal boundaries.
Build healthy relationships that provide accountability, encouragement, correction, and support.
Develop healthy safeguards that help prevent, detect, and respond to ministry problems.
SELF, TOGETHER, and SYSTEM tools in one practical resource for ministry leaders and leadership teams.
The original toolkit organizes prevention around the leader, the relationships surrounding the leader, and the systems protecting the ministry.
Know your heart. Identify your vulnerabilities. Establish your protections.
The Principle: Connect → Account → Communicate → Correct → Strengthen
Open any resource below to work through the actual worksheets and leadership tools included in the original toolkit.
Examine the health of personal communion with God.
Examine the inner qualities that support faithful leadership.
Identify areas where pressure, isolation, weakness, or poor boundaries could increase risk.
Establish proactive boundaries for relationships, resources, time, and ministry responsibilities.
Create an intentional relationship for honest feedback, encouragement, correction, and support.
Identify people who have permission to speak into different areas of life and ministry.
Set shared expectations for how ministry leaders relate to one another and handle responsibility.
A clear process for addressing disagreements and relational problems before they become destructive.
A quarterly team assessment of the relational and leadership environment.
Clarify authority, accountability, decision-making, oversight, and organizational responsibility.
Financial practices that promote integrity, transparency, stewardship, and accountability.
Procedures to protect children, vulnerable adults, participants, volunteers, and leaders.
Clear behavioral and ethical expectations for ministry leaders and representatives.
Identify vulnerabilities, evaluate potential impact, and establish preventive actions.
Prepare for leadership transitions and reduce unnecessary dependence on one individual.
Dr. Patrice Viakinnou, DMin, MA, BCPC develops educational resources and provides leadership training with an emphasis on practical application.
Olga Viakinnou, RN contributes to the development of educational resources and training, bringing her professional experience and perspective to the work.
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