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Leadership Roundtable
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Dear Friend of the Leadership Roundtable ,
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In
the two and a half years since the Leadership Roundtable was
formally incorporated, we have achieved and accomplished a
tremendous portion of what we set out to do. Measurable accomplishments
can be seen in resource and product development; number of bishops
actively and supportively engaged; number of successful consultancy
engagements; levels of participation by our 200 senior executive members;
invitations to speak; interview requests from reporters; sales of our
products; visits to our web site; and endorsements from Church leaders.
Most importantly, across the country Church leaders and actively engaged
Catholic laity are taking seriously the wisdom and virtue of aspiring to
excellence in the management of the Church's temporal matters.
This
newsletter provides an update on our progress and highlights the
quality of our resources, the effectiveness of our activity, and the
importance of our mission. Thank you for helping to strengthen the Church
through your participation and service.
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Partners in Excellence |
The Standards for
Excellence: An Ethics and Accountability Code for Catholic Dioceses,
Parishes and Nonprofits provides a
comprehensive set of detailed performance benchmarks for measuring
governance and ethical performance.
Dioceses,
parishes and Catholic nonprofits across the country are becoming Partners in Excellence,
implementing the Standards for Excellence and accessing educational
resource materials with templates and practical tools.
Since
the Standards for Excellence were published in November:
- Over 3,000 copies of the Standards for Excellence have been
distributed
- Every bishop in the country has received copies of the
Standards for Excellence
- 50 Catholic philanthropic foundations have received the
Standards and been encouraged to use them with grantees
- 13 national Catholic ministry associations have completed an
organizational self-assessment using the Standards for Excellence
- Nonprofit boards, councils of priests, seminary
classes and individual parishes have begun to use the Standards
for Excellence.
Find out more
about becoming a Partner in Excellence here...
Order copies of
the Standards for Excellence codes online here...
For more
information on the Standards for Excellence
program please visit our website (www.nlrcm.org/standards) or
email Michael Brough at Standards@nlrcm.org.
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Diocesan Job Descriptions |
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What are the
senior leadership positions essential for administering a diocese
effectively? What are the elements of comprehensive job
descriptions and performance metrics for these postions?
Click here to access 11 senior
level diocesan job descriptions.
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Featured Video |
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Lessons from Effective Catholic School Management
 Richard Burke of
Catholic School Management, Inc, and a Leadership Roundtable member,
discusses the lessons that can be learned from successful Catholic
school management initiatives.
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Featured Diocese |
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Diocese of Shreveport, LA
 The Diocese of
Shreveport hosted a conference of over 100 chancery and tribunal
officials from 11 dioceses in three states.
Their
theme: accountability,
transparency and openness in the Church.
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Reader Survey |
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Roundtable's new Online Forum
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Finance Policies
and Procedures |
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Current
discussion of Sarbanes-Oxley has led many nonprofits to pay even more
attention to financial policies and procedures. ChurchEpedia
offers a series of policies and procedures that one Catholic organization
has adopted.
Click here to access the
sample policies |
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Progress Update |
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The
members of the Leadership Roundtable board, council and working groups
dedicate their time and expertise to achieving our plan of action priority items:
- The Leadership Roundtable Board of Directors met on the
campus of Santa Clara University in San Jose, CA,
on January 21, for its first meeting
of 2008. Bishop Patrick J. McGrath celebrated Mass for the group
and joined the Board of Directors for part of the board meeting.
Bishop McGrath preached on the Gospel of Mark 2:18-22 and the
challenge of pouring new wine into old wineskins and commended the
Leadership Roundtable for its efforts to bring about new standards
for excellence in Church administration and financial matters.
- The working group producing the Restoring Trust report held a
think-tank session in Chicago
with contributors from the Church, Education and Corporate
fields. Read a brief update on their work
- We have continually added more topics and resources to our
free, online clearing-house of best practices, www.ChurchEpedia.org. Please visit the
website to view the contents and to submit your own suggestions.
- The Planning Models working group has issued a proposal for
services to engage top Church planning experts in developing a planning
guide for use by dioceses. The guide will be made available on
ChurchEpedia.org and will be accompanied by case studies and
practical tools. Click here to send us
examples of successful planning efforts in your diocese.
- The Performance Management working group has developed a
rationale for a performance management and review process for clergy
and lay ministers and is now collaborating with a number of
partner organizations to develop competency models, a 360' feedback
instrument, a tool kit of practical resources and to design training
workshops for parish staff teams to implement competency-based
development. Does your parish use a performance management
process? Click here to share you
experience with us.
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In the News |
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In
just the last few weeks, the Leadership Roundtable has been quoted in the
Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, the Los Angeles Times, the
Philadelphia Inquirer, Catholic News Service, Vatican Radio and
other media outlets.
Visit
our newsroom for articles featuring
the Leadership Roundtable or on topics of Church management, finances and
human resources.
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