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Hot Topics – Secular Management

Web Source National Assoc of Colleges & Employers

• Retention/Succession strategies • Budget realities • Conflict resolution • Understanding, managing, and

motivating others • Coaching and mentoring • Engaging high performers • Career development trends • Lifelong Learning

Hot Topics – Benefits / Comp1. Health Care Cost Management

• Health Trends Summary: 2006 Medical and Health Care Cost Projections: A review of health care cost projections for 2006 underscores the belief that health care/medical costs increases have stabilized. Employers, consultants, insurance carriers and other vendors in the health care market all believe medical trend increase/health care costs increases will either be the same in 2006 or decline slightly from 2005 increases. Source: http://www.ifebp.org/Knowledge/critical.asp?critical

2. Health Care Cost Trends3. Flexible Benefit Plans4. Retiree Health Care5. International Benefits6. 403 (b) / 401(k) Plans7. COBRA8. Wellness Programs9. Vacation Benefits10. Family & Medical Leave11. Benefit Costs

Hot Topics – Compensation Management

1. Generational Issues in Benefits & HR2. HSAs and HRAs3. Multiemployer Trustee Responsibilities4. Public Employee Pension Plans5. Small Benefit Plans

Hot Topics – Technology Trends1. New Windows Operating system for 06 called “Longhorn” for server / client use

and “Vista” for desktops.• Many reasons to upgrade, chief among them is security

2. MS Office 12 will hit the shelves in late 063. “On-Demand” Software offerings (formerly ASP) will grow significantly

• “On Demand” is hosted or software as a service, internet based4. Virus protection will continue to be a challenge5. Spam will grow exponentially6. Data Protection (SSN) will become even more crucial

• Colleges and others already moving away from using SSN ID systems7. Multi-core and dual processor systems will proliferate down to the OEM single user

and office desktop workstations enabling the use of multiple operating systems8. The “Apple” generation presents a challenge to church IT managers utilizing

Microsoft networks and systems• Why ?

• The audio/visual ease of use• The proliferation of Ipod development and similar platforms• The challenge of the integration of Apple with Microsoft systems• New Intel based machines are preparing for a “dual-boot” ability to boot

both Apple and Microsoft operating systems• Buy a Powerbook and learn how to use it!! You might surprise yourself.

Hot Topics – Church Admin1. Human Resources (hrhero.com, shrm)2. Legal & Tax Reviews

• Private Contractors• Policies & Procedures• Private Inurement, Private Benefit, Excess Benefit Transactions

3. Websites, List Serve (churchadmin , metrochurchadmin)4. Copyright Issues – manual (churchca.com)5. Intellectual Properties, Creative Rights6. Employment Contracts for Pastors / Staff7. New types of risk8. Conflict Resolution9. Conflict of Interest10. Ethics in Business (bidding, RFP, COI)11. Stewardship Trends12. Foundations / Endowments13. Purchasing Organizations14. Spouse Travel15. Apple Systems (Generational Computing)16. Lifetime Learning17. HIPPA18. Fair Labor Standards Act

Hot Resources1. Yahoo Listserve (churchadmin , metrochurchadmin)2. Generousgiving.org3. Hispeace.org4. Simply Strategic Stuff5. Background Checks - Hammar6. Online Giving7. Xpastor.org - mostly for executive pastors8. Human Resources

• HRhero.com - Tennessee specific HR & Employment helps• HR.BLR.com - State HR Answers and Tools online• SHRM.org - Society for Human Resource Management

9. Books10. GBC Resources

• CAPro11. International Foundation: Education, Benefits, Compensation12. US Dept of Labor Statistics

13. www.churchadminpro.com

5 Dysfunctions

Dysfunctions Evidence1. Lack of Trust Invulnerability2. Fear of Conflict Artificial Harmony3. Lack of Commitment Ambiguity4. Avoidance of Accountability Low Standards5. Inattention to Results Status & Ego

Positive Approach to Team Function

• They trust one another• They engage in unfiltered conflict

around ideas• They commit to decisions and plans of

action• They hold one another accountable for

delivery against those plans• They focus on the achievement of

collective results

Suggestions for Overcoming• Dysfunction 1

• Personality profiling• Birkman• Myers Briggs

• Dysfunction 2• Mining

• Dysfunction 3• Deadlines

• Dysfunction 4• Publish goals and standards• Simple progress review• Team rewards

Keys to Team Building

• Annual planning & Leadership development retreat

• Quarterly staff meetings offsite- 2 day

• Weekly staff meetings on site• AdHoc topical meetings

McDonnell Douglas DC-3

McDonnell Douglas DC-3 Greatest airplane ever designed Introduced in 1935 Ushered in the era of commercial air

travel 1st plane that supported itself

economically 1st plane that supported itself

aerodynamically

DC-3 brought together 5 critical component technologies – each an important part of the whole

Variable pitch propeller (made engine more powerful at all speeds)

Retractable landing gear (reduced drag)

Flush Riveting (reduced drag)

Lightweight molded body construction Stressed-Skin Structure (strength)

Radial air-cooled engine (lighter, smaller, faster)

Range, 20,000ft and 1,500 miles (double)

Wing flaps – new innovation (lift)

Today – 5 new “component technologies” - disciplines

1. Systems Thinking – discipline of the whole and not parts

2. Personal Mastery – discipline of Continually clarifying vision Developing patience

3. Mental Models – things that influence how we understand the world and how we take action

4. Building Shared Vision5. Team Learning

The Fifth Discipline Peter Senge

“Most changes in organizational structure are piecemeal reactions to problems. Real designers are continually trying to understand wholes. Just as the DC-3 designers had to integrate the 5 component technologies, crucial design work for leaders of learning organizations concerns integrating vision, values, and purpose…..”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “The purpose of the church cannot be to survive or even to thrive but to serve. And sometimes servants die in the serving.”

• “We are in grave danger when we have the most people and the most money in our history.”

• “The cultural environment became comfortable, and the gospel shifted from a church “on mission” to a church that supported missions.”

• “If those who prepare for leadership are looking for the safe place, who will lead the church into the dangerous places?”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “You can change the name, but if you don’t change the heart, the atrophy will kill you in the end.”

• “Our resolution to be discomforted with technology will ensure that we remain at least fifty years behind.”

• We live in a world defined by speed. We get there faster, get it faster, and want it faster.”

• “Too often, the church becomes our secure place, our haven from the outside world.”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “The key to dealing with this rapidly changing world, to dealing with this culture addicted to speed, is not to catch up but to give up on keeping up.”

• “The way not to be overwhelmed by the radical changes and speed in our world is to know where you’re going, to know why you’re going there, and to do it with urgency.”

• “Although change is rarely taught or extracted from the Scriptures, the Scriptures are a document about change.”

• “God calls us to take the memories with us but to leave the memorabilia behind.”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “Simply stated, if the Bible doesn’t bring change, it is not being engaged.”

• “We are not only called to be changed and to embrace change but to be the catalysts of change.”

• “The further we are from the past, the better we remember it – but not the clearer. Soon the details are lost to the dream. In the end what we remember never existed.”

• “When our children grow up, they mirror what we’ve really cared about.”

AN  UNSTOPPABLE  FORCEErwin Raphael McManus

• “The problem in many of our congregations is not that we’ve chosen a wrong strategy or have an irrelevant style but that we have an unhealthy culture.”

• “When you alter the methods of a church, you are, in effect trampling memories.”

• “True leaders are able to influence not only individuals, but also environments.”

• “People know what you care about by what you’re willing to die for.”

13 Core Competencies (FCBA)1. Personnel / Human Resource Management2. Staff Development3. Congregational Leadership4. Theology of Stewardship5. Office Management6. Information Management7. Property Management8. Strategic Planning9. Financial Management10. Stewardship of Self11. Legal and Tax12. Christian Perspectives & Theology of Church13. Theology of Church Administration

Hot Topics – IRS Interest

1. Private InurementWhen someone with a personal or private interest in the activities of

the church receives net earnings (that is, unearned income or benefits)

2. Private BenefitWhen the church is run in such a way that a substantial part of its

activities benefit private individuals for other than charitable purposes, whether or not those individuals are part of the church

3. Excess Benefit TransactionWhen the church provides money or other benefit to a disqualified

person (someone who is in a position to exercise substantial influence in the church) and that money or benefit was without receipt of any commensurate value to the church

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Hot Topics – IRS Interest

Tax-Exempt Organizations Face Compensation Scrutiny From the IRS. Mills, Elizabeth M. Taxation of Exempts v17 no2 pp 76-80 Sep-Oct 2005

Since 2004, the IRS has conducted correspondence audits concerning compensation paid by about 2000 tax exempt organizations for tax year 2002. IRS Letter 3878 may be followed by an additional Information Document Request. Compensation arrangements by charitable organizations are also the subject of study of the Senate Finance Committee, which released a comprehensive Discussion Draft in June 2004. Since examination of exempts' compensation arrangements is likely to increase, those organizations should prepare carefully for a potential IRS audit, documenting the substance and amounts of compensation arrangements, policies and procedures related to compensation, and the operations of their compensation committees. [0146864]

Source: http://www.ifebp.org/knowledge/ichotcmp.asp

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Hot Topics – “Hot” Types of Risk

1. Professional Liability (counseling) 2. Employment Practices Liability (wrongful

dismissal)3. DOT4. Fiduciary Liability & Crime

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Hot Topics – Books

• Simply Strategic Stuff, Help for Leaders Drowning in the Details of Running A Church, by Tim Stevens, Tony Morgan

• The New Context For Ministry, the Impace of the New Economy on Your Church, by Lyle Shaller• The Tipping Point, How Little Things Can Make a Big Differeince, by Malcolm Gladwell• The Generosity Factor, by Ken Blanchard, Truett Cathy• Managing Transitions, by William Bridges• 101 Creative Problem Solving Techniques, by James Higgins• The 21 Most Powerful Minutes in a Leader’s Day, by John Maxwell• Who Moved My Cheese, by Spencer Johnson• The Change Monster, by Jeanie Daniel Duck• Birth of the Chaordic Age, by Dee Hock• 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni• An Unstoppable Force, by Erwin McManus• A Work of Heart by Reggie McNeil• Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels• Good to Great, by Jim Collins• The Next Generation Leader, by Andy Stanley• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, by John Maxwell• Spiritual Leadership, by Oswald Sanders• Spiritual Leadership by Henry and Richard Blackaby• Jesus on Leadership, by Gene Wilkes• The World's Most Powerful Leadership Principle Leader, by James C. Hunter

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Hot Topics – Compensation

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Employer Costs for EmployeesDept of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics

PerHour Worked %

$7.65 30%$2.10 8%

Required Benefits* $2.06 8% 57%$1.72 7%$1.11 4%

Supplemental Benefits $11.23 43%

Total $25.87 100%

* Life, Health, Disability, Paid Leave, Retirement