Monday, December 15, 2014

Can business training solve CofE's 'toxic' leadership problem?


Senior clergy in the Church of England are being summonsed to sign up for MBA-style leadership courses as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York attempt to create a Church fit for the 21st century.

Plans for the business-style leadership programme to bring about Church growth and create a "talent" pool of future bishops and archbishops have already been condemned by clergy who have warned of "demoralisation" and "alienation".

The plans, outlined in a new report leaked online, will cost the Church £2million up to the end of 2016 and a further £785,000 a year from 2017. Read more
A useful resource to evaluate these plans in relation to the pressing need for reform of the shape of episcopacy in the Church of England is the Reform publication, "Better Bishops," by Mark Burkill.

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