Consulting Overview

  • Complimentary Consultation
    • Face-to-Face meeting with a True Course Ministries professional
    • Overview of a True Course consulting experience
    • Talk through any concerns or questions you may have with your True Course professional
    • Basic needs assessment performed by your True Course professional
  • Getting Started: Beginning your Consulting Program
    • Solidify an agreement for your consulting experience
    • Establish the duration, format, and expectations for your consulting experience
    • Specify and collaborate on your goals, processes, timelines, formative evaluation benchmarks, and evaluation strategies

Your True Course Ministries Process: Basic Principles

  • On-going program principles and communication with your True Course professional, including:
    • Regularly scheduled meetings and evaluations
    • Sessions that are conducive to your schedule, needs, and ministry environment
    • On-going adherence to and evaluation of your program needs
    • Final evaluation
  • Key consulting areas designed to help your team achieve higher productivity and growth that you'll focus on with your True Course Ministries professional include:
    • Improving self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, and social skills
    • Increasing productive team and staff dynamics, particularly within decision making and problem solving situations
    • Conflict management
    • Achieving a multifaceted perspective of the social system that is at work within your ministry and congregation
  • Your Consultant's Role
    • Meet with you and any staff members for pre-determined duration and frequency for program planning and development
    • Use research and assessment reports to support the consulting outcomes and program, as needed
    • Support you and your ministry team via phone and email between consulting sessions
    • Assist you and your staff with making the link between theory and practice
    • Observe your congregation or staff for the procedures used to achieve goals and problem solve
    • Facilitate the formation of focus groups among your staff, as needed
    • Suggests ways to improve individual and group procedures and communication methods, and intervene in situations when appropriate and agreed upon by individual client
    • Offer a source of accountability and encouragement, as needed
    • Demonstrate utmost respect and confidentiality towards you and your ministry team as growing individuals
  • Your Role and Contributions
    • Use the relationship with your True Course Ministries consultant as a valuable resource to help your staff become more efficient and accomplish tasks effectively
    • Work with your consultant to gain a clearer understanding of recommended methods for engaging and growth
    • Actively participate
    • Be willing to consider your consultant's recommendations as real possibilities for productive change and alternate procedure options
    • Engage in discussions
    • Develop analytical habits
    • Through brainstorming sessions with your consultant, explore ideas and ways to improve situations within your ministry and congregation

 

The True Course Ministries consulting experience and personalized program is also available as a retained service, designed for churches to utilize as an external resource for achieving innovative productivity, efficiency, and wellness in ministry.