Our Church Leadership Coaching Program is designed specifically for denominational executives, clergy and church governing groups such as administrative councils, vestries, sessions, and deacon boards.
The first part of our company name, Eagle Alliance, is taken from Isaiah 40:31, “Those who wait for the Lord, will gain new strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles.” Let your leadership team soar.
Results:
We provide coaching and training that help denominational executives, clergy, and lay leaders to improve their leadership and communication skills. Often clergy lack any substantial training in leadership.
Lay leaders appreciate our programs because what they learn will be useful not only at church but on their jobs as well. Leadership will be more effective and people will grow spiritually and personally in the process.
Think you can’t afford this? We offer a relatively inexpensive Group Coaching Program in the form of Tele-Workshops conducted through telephone conference calls. Our extensive Participant Workbook guides you with a visual aid to focus on. Anyone may join our ongoing public section at any time. It meets once a week for one hour and 20 minutes. Spacing out your learning makes it stick as you get time to practice new skills between sessions.
Get more information on our Tele-Workshop Series, Emotional Intelligence for Resilient Leaders and Professionals – Churches may subtitle this as, How to Love Your Neighbor as Yourself, at http://www.eaglealliance.com/services/gec/lcvws
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Our programs will also strengthen your denominational or church leadership group’s spiritual life and teamwork. We offer a structured Executive Team Coaching Program to boost the performance and synergy of the top leadership group of a denomination or a very large church. We custom build our program to suit your situation and budget. Our structured program can significantly improve the personal, interpersonal, and group effectiveness of your denomination’s executive team or the leadership group of a large church.
Our programs assist church leaders to follow more closely the model that Jesus gave us of Servant Leadership. This gives lay leaders a safe place to practice new servant-leader approaches before they decide to use them at work on their job. Many lay leaders are also leaders in the secular world, and they readily appreciate the value of our training. Our programs are a way to reward your lay leaders, many of whom are also your big contributors.
When resentment has built up in church groups, we facilitate conflict resolution. Often it is wise to have an outside facilitator because denominational representatives wield power, which distorts their role. An outsider has a better chance of remaining neutral and objective, which is crucial to mediating a satisfactory solution to the conflict.
We can lead retreats. Your leaders will appreciate having skilled facilitators to move along your agenda and accomplish your desired results. Also, your leaders can participate more fully since they do not have to fulfill the leadership role. We will customize our program to fit your audience and goals.
We emphasize the need to recognize and celebrate where God is working in your denominational office or church. We believe that leadership meetings and retreats should provide time to listen to the Holy Spirit and should be conducted in a spiritual fashion. The “how” we lead in church groups may be more important to God than the “what” we accomplish.
Our Facilitators:
Bill Murray is a graduate of Yale Divinity School (M.Div.’69) and The Harvard Business School (MBA ’74). He has been called for over 30 years to be a chaplain to people in the world of work. He was a minister and then a leader in the corporate world at companies such as J.C. Penney. For over 30 years he has coached and trained leaders. He has much experience in team building and conflict resolution.
Bill was trained by the Alban Institute for one week on how to resolve church conflicts. He was also trained and certified as a state mediator. Bill was trained in leadership and group facilitation at several corporate training centers such as the National Training Labs.
His wife, Kathy Murray, is a graduate of NYU with a MSW and The New Seminary (MSC ’92). She is a licensed psychotherapist who has been trained in group dynamics and mindfulness at Duke University, where she runs several groups each week.
Eagle Alliance Executive Coaching also offers:
- Tele-Workshops on Leadership
- Spiritual Coaching for Leaders and Professionals
- William R. Murray’s article, “The Power to Empower, the Transformational Energy of Servant-Leadership.” (Rich Text Format)
- William R. Murray’s book chapter, “Emotional Intelligence for Resilience,” in the Amazon best-seller book, Upping the Down Side (at www.Amazon.com).
