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Binders Full of Women
Creating and Utilizing a Talent Bank
Training Agenda
• Purpose• Goals
Introduction
• Women• POC• Other
Why we need Binders
• Research & Create • Collect• Design
How to Build a Binder
• With Whom and When• Special Considerations
How to Share a Binder
• Updates• Evaluations
Rinse & Repeat
• Profile Samples• Talent Banks• More Information• GCSRW
Resources
WHY?
19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19
make disciplesDeveloping Principled Christian Leaders
for the Church and the WorldThe Four Areas of Focus of The UMC, 2012
“Just Apply Already!” “We Need You!”
Nominations
Committees
Willing & Able
Nancy Ditomaso, from “How Social Networks Drive Black Unemployment” the New York Times May 5, 2013
Inequality reproduces itself because [referrals are] typically reserved for people who are “like me”: the people who live in my neighborhood, those who attend my church or school or those with whom I have worked in the past.
Nominations
Committees
Willing & Able
Volunteers
TalentBank!
What you have to offer that is unique
• Skilled at asking:– How to prevent exclusion – How to increase hospitality – How do we learn to respect difference
• Expand the network • Alternative objectivity • Different priorities – Listen more thoroughly – Interview or meet with participants
Process Overview
• Research• Create Profile Template • Recruit and Collect participants– Questionnaires – Interviews or Meetings– Leadership Training
• Share the Binder • Rinse and Repeat
STEP 1: RESEARCH
Who & What
Committee on Nominations
Lay Leadership
Team
Connectional Ministries
office
Cabinet
___________
Bishop
UMW & UMM
Expectation
s
Priorities
Skills
Passions
• Expectations– Time commitment – Duration – Support to be
offered– High-capacity or
willing to train?
• Priorities– Competent or
Passionate?– Team oriented or
self-driven? –
• Skills – Leadership– Technical – Offer trainings– Worship, Care,
Planning …
• Passions – Spiritual leadership– Social justice – Personal piety – Intellectual
Step 2: Profile
• Create profile questionnaire– Samples – Online or paper – Email or form (google drive)
• https://support.google.com/docs/answer/87809?hl=en
• Find the right questions
Profile Outline:Contact
Information
Phone
Church & District
Demographics
Age
Race
Skills
Leadership
Technical / Logistical
Effectiveness
Connectional
Personal
Passions
Perspective
Sample
Sample Questionnaire
What is are your spiritual disciples and gifts?
Where are your passion and the work of the AC similar?
Which skills do you want to offer?
What do you want to learn or improve?
Where in the annual conference do you see need for change or greater ministry?
Which committees interest you?
Other Possible Questions:
• A list of skills
• Logistical considerations – Mobility and transportation
– Child care
– Time of Day
– Technological capacity (meet by Skype, Google hangout, conference call, Adobe Meeting etc)
• Current commitments (Boards, committees etc.) and time to offer
Transferrable Skills
Characteristic Rating Comments
Ability to work well with others
Personal motivation and initiative
Dependability
Trustworthiness
Attitude
Pride in one’s work
Personal follow-through
Cooperative
…
Please rate each characteristic between 1 and 10, with 1 being a low rating and 10 being a high rating
Skills and Abilities: Please check skills that you have or would like to develop:
Would like to use this Skill
Would like to improve
No interest
Scheduling
Administrative
Event Planning
Communications
Leading worship
Leading trainings or bible studies
Liaise between committees
Lead meetings
Take notes
…
Activity:Contact
Information
Phone
Church & District
Demographics
Age
Race
Skills
Leadership
Technical / Logistical
Effectiveness
Connectional
Personal
Passions
Perspective
Write at least five questionsto include in a questionnaire
Discussion: Best Questions
SamplesIn the files box, please download “Sample-Forms-UMC” and “Sample-Forms-Misc”
These two pdf’s will give you a strong library of formats and models upon which to build your profiles and questionnaires.
Step 3: Collect & Recruit
• Timeline (Rolling or Deadline) • Nominations / Leadership Deadline• Meet on first day of Annual Conference • At district pre-conference meetings • Host district level workshops • Enlist help from District Superintendents,
UMW / UMM officers, lay servant teachers, clergy, etc.
Recruitment:
• Make it personal– Have a
conversation – Individualize
invitations – Modify requests for
referrals
• Phone Calls • Handwritten notes • Personal visit
People will notice the time,
effort & vulnerability you
put into an invitation.
Simply increasing your
level of personal
investment will positively
affect how people respond
to you.
The high
investment =>
high response
principle
What is communication like in your annual conference?
Step 4: Compile & Design
• Create a Binder – One page, or several for each participant? – Sort by skill, interest, or experience? – Simple list (sorted), list with blurbs, or one
person per page
Example: Short Blurbs• Susan Keaton
– Susan is a lay, white, middle age, woman. She is in communications professionally, has a daughter, and likes to read novels on her commute each day.
• Elaine Moy– Elaine is a lay, Chinese-American, middle age woman. She has
two sons and like to help them learn to bake. Elaine’s has great passion for organizing, cleaning and is an accountant.
• Erin Kane – Erin is a lay, white, young adult, woman. She has particular gifts
for details, archives, research and experience with community organizing and anti-racism trainings.
• Becky Williams – Becky is a lay, white, older adult woman. She has previous
experience on conference lay leadership teams, a passion for spiritual direction, and particular skills in teaching and leadership.
One Page per Person
• Introduction • Contact Information • Compelling Skills • Personal touch • Reference or Recommendations• Use back or page 2 for details,
CVs/Resumes and other information
STEP 5: SHARE
How to Share a Binder:
• Meet with nominators in their space and time
• Explain how this helps them – You may use slides from this presentation – Share information about how – Identify groups about whom we ask, “where
are all the (e.g. young people) ?”
• Remember the high-investment, high-response principle
• Discuss confidentiality and respect
Work 7 – 9 months in advance
With whom will you share your
binders?
Whom will you contact to meet?
How will you share the profiles?
What will you tell them?
STEP 6: RINSE AND REPEAT
Rinse and Repeat
• Evaluate the program regularly for improvement
• Update the binders annually • Decide thoughtfully whether to roll over
profiles automatically
• SUCCESSION PLAN: – Find someone in year 2 to assist you. Train
them and show them how to do what you. In year 3, let them take the lead, and you be the assistant.
Evaluations
• Ask participants: – How to improve profile
form • Add or Subtract Questions? • Length of Time to return
form• Alternative methods of
submission
– How to communicate with them • How often • What information they
need
• Ask Nominators – How to improve
profile form • Additional questions • Specific needs
• Ask Lead Volunteers– What was difficult – What support needed– Who else to get
involved
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
Let mutual love continue. Do not neglect to show hospitality to
strangers for by doing that some have entertained angels without
knowing it.Hebrews 13:1
I was thirsty and you gave me drink,I was a stranger and you welcomed
me.Matthew 25:35
Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers.Romans 12:13
19Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
Matthew 28:19 Then Peter began to speak to them: “I truly understand that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to God.Acts 10:34
Ensure Credibility
• Only the very best
• Include all and hope they succeed
• Connect to mentors and coaches
Cultural Obstacles
• Insular behaviors
• Poor communication
• No training or support
• Unclear expectations
Active Talent Banks & Leadership Development Orgs
• https://www.nationalserviceresources.gov/skills-based-volunteering#.U2K-P_ldXHR
• http://www.handsonnetwork.org/nationalprograms/skillsbasedvolunteering
• http://www.taprootfoundation.org/support-probono/build-pro-bono-movement
• http://www.commonimpact.org/• http://www.smartvolunteer.org/• http://www.volunteermatch.org/
PRAYER AND THANKSGIVING
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Audrey KrumbachDirector of Gender Justice &
(312) 346-4900
