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CMI Priorities Decomposition Template

Commitment Ministries' mission is to assist churches in maximizing their impact through transformational leadership and raising the capital required to make significant steps forward.  Over the last 4 years, the Transformational Leadership portion of CMI has assisted dozens of churches discover who they are, where they want to go and how they will get there while building significant engagement and ownership along the way.    Our founder, Fred Whittey, and the current CMI team have been involved in Capital Stewardship Campaigns for over 20 years. They have led over

Anyone with people leadership responsibilities needs to take them seriously, and ensure they are focusing on the right behaviours to help both staff & volunteers meet organizational and personal goals. To get started, here are seven key people leadership responsibilities and how you can carry them out.

Spending in these local churches increased by $3.5 million in the period 2000-2006.
How is their impact fundamentally different now than it was 5 years ago?
Are they moving forward or just maintaining?

If an organization isn’t growing, it loses relevance and the commitment of its stakeholders.
If an organism is “flat-lined”, there is no growth, no learning & it merely exists – it dies.
An organization requires “governance” to ensure it achieves its mission and purpose.
An organism needs purpose and focus or it will wander around aimlessly.
An organization needs monitoring and management of its operations to ensure it achieves the desired results.
An organism needs monitoring and regulation of its critical physiological functions and systems to remain healthy.
An organization reacts to competitive threats, and tries to proactively anticipate them.
An organism’s antibodies attack threats and any foreign substances (in the case of a church, could even be non-believers or loyal leaders who hold opposing points of view).

We are all leaders… however there are different leadership needs depending on your focus…