{"id":165,"date":"2016-02-07T18:58:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=165"},"modified":"2016-02-07T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:58:08","slug":"conductor-guard-dog-or-scapegoat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Conductor, guard dog or scapegoat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Church-administration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-166\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Church-administration-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Church administration\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Church-administration-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Church-administration-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>I recently ran a one day workshop for church administrators.\u00a0 During the day we spent some time reflecting on how they might best describe the main elements of their role.<\/h3>\n<p>If you are a church administrator or work with someone who is, I wonder of any of the below descriptions resonate with you?<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to suggest your own!<\/p>\n<p>Guard dog &#8211; protecting the clergy or others from all comers<\/p>\n<p>Conductor &#8211; making sure all parts of the church work in harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Oil can &#8211; stepping in to keep the wheels turning<\/p>\n<p>Chief dispenser of tea and sympathy<\/p>\n<p>Jack of all trades &#8211; if it needs sorting, guess who will do it<\/p>\n<p>Chief enforcer &#8211; the one who makes sure things get done around here<\/p>\n<p>Scapegoart &#8211; for when you need to find a person to blame<\/p>\n<p>To find 0ut more about training days for church adminsitrators, please <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/?page_id=8\">contact me<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently ran a one day workshop for church administrators.\u00a0 During the day we spent some time reflecting on how they might best describe the main elements of their role. If you are a church administrator or work with someone who is, I wonder of any of the below descriptions&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charities","category-organisational-development","category-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":167,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevinlawrenceconsulting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}