The Goehner Group

The failure rate of Christian leaders is substantially high.  The pressure to produce is immense and often the expectations are unrealistic. 

 I have been giving a great deal of thought to this subject. In response to my concern, I have developed a seminar which I am presenting in various venues over the next few months.  I will be sharing some my perception of the key reasons for these failures.  I welcome your thoughts and responses to what I perceive to be a major issue in the body of Christ.

During my 50 years in ministry leadership, with 20 of those in consulting, I have never experienced the economic climate we are currently experiencing.  Many ministries appear to be “paralyzed” as to what the best approach is right now. “Do we stop development? Cut staff? Cut marketing costs? Find the nearest cave and crawl in?” These questions and many more are being asked by many of ministries.

This is the time to be especially strategic in your ministry planning. By reviewing your mission, vision and ministry strategy, you can strengthen your ministry to weather the current financial storm. An organizational audit can help you know how best to structure your current organization; a ministry master plan will help you refine your goals and vision and make sure your current ministry is achieving those goals; a marketing study will help you find ways to reach more constituents in your geographic area and a business mode audit can help you with some of the financial challenges you may be facing.

The Goehner Group has over 20 years of experience and has helped ministries through other challenging times. Please let us know if there are services that we can provide that will help you meet the challenges you are currently facing in your ministry organization.

This is the time to boldly step forward to do God’s work, resting in the knowledge that He will accomplish His work despite outward circumstances.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you & not to harm you, plans to give you hope & a future.  Jeremiah 29:11
 

It’s always nice to hear from those folks we have helped and to learn that our work is well received.  Here is a recent letter from a client regarding Executive Search coaching that we provided for them.

“As Conference Leaders we want to express our sincere appreciation for the resources, wisdom and discernment that the services of The Goehner Group brought to our search process. We were impressed with the intentionality and rationality of the basic method that you presented to our Search Team, as well as the ways that you helped them uncover the things that made the NAB situation unique.  What you provided was not a template of Executive Placement but, rather, a flexible and responsive coaching model that valued the NAB as an entity.  Support from The Goehner Group made our already strong team much more effective in assessing needs, realities and potential candidates.  The team members continue to express their confidence in the ways you assisted them in shaping the process of the search and in managing the timelines and tasks.” (more…)