LCWR Discernment Guide for Selecting Future Leadership

Ongoing discernment of capacity for leadership is essential in this time of rapid change. To assist leaders with the processes of change and transition, Mary Jo Nelson, OLVM is developing a communal discernment resource based on her leadership experience in her own congregation and learnings gleaned from her service as a facilitator.

Entitled “LCWR Discernment Guide for Selecting Future Leadership,” the user-friendly resource will eventually have four segments:

Part 1: Beginning the conversation on leadership -- How do you know when you can no longer elect a leadership team?

Part 2: Making a choice -- The congregation is called to discern two crucial elements moving forward: What choices do you have when you need an appointed leader? What choice will your congregation make and why?

Part 3: Tending the future relationships -- How do you identify persons who can accompany you and provide leadership when you can no longer elect your own leadership?

Part 4: Transitioning to an appointed leader -- How will you orient, on-board, and transition leadership to an appointed leader?