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Choosing Change: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future

Choosing Change: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future


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Humans have been choice-makers since the days when hunter-gatherers had to decide when to hunt and what to gather. Making choices is what humans do. But individuals feel more personal autonomy and power to choose today than ever before in human history. In Choosing Change, author Peter Coutts acknowledges that clergy today recognize the impact our individualistic culture of choice is having on congregations. But Coutts also points out that many leaders do not think about motivation. For them, encouraging change is about selling their congregation on a new idea, governed by the assumption that a better idea should win the day. Wide experience in the church demonstrates that this approach often doesn't work and leaves many congregational leaders demoralized. Leaders see the need for change in their congregation, and they earnestly want to help their congregation to change. But the approach to leadership they learned, which perhaps worked better in days gone by, is no longer working. Leaders are in the motivation business, argues Coutts. Choosing Change provides an overview of current thinking from the field of motivation psychology. In the first half of the book, Coutts explores theories, ideas, and terms that are most pertinent for leaders who desire to encourage congregational change. The second half of the book offers detailed guidance for congregational leaders who want to be motivational leaders.

Table of Contents:
Foreword Acknowledgments Part I: An Introduction to Motivation Theory Chapter 1: What Is Motivation and Why Is It Important? Chapter 2: Stewardship and Hope at Work: The Origins of Motivation Chapter 3: Trust at Work: The Moderation of Motivation Chapter 4: Motivation-Based Change: Leading with People in Mind Part II: The Practice of Motivation Leadership Chapter 5: Preparing the Congregation: The Readiness for Change Step Chapter 6: Encouraging Attitude Change: The Discovery Step Chapter 7: Developing the Change Story Together: The Dialogue Step Chapter 8: Crafting and Sharing the Change Message: The Deliberation Step Chapter 9: Dealing with Dissent: Rethinking Resistance to Change Chapter 10: Planning with Motivation in Mind: The Deployment Step Afterword Notes Index

About the Author :
Peter Coutts has twenty-six years of congregational experience, including church planting and as lead minister of one of Canada's largest Presbyterian congregations. He has taught congregational revitalization as an adjunct professor in the D.Min. program at McCormick Seminary in Chicago. Currently Peter divides his time between coaching congregational pastors and leaders in 13 Presbyterian congregations in southern Alberta, and executive coaching and consulting in both congregational and business settings. Visit his website at http://www.choosingchange.ca/.

Review :
Knowing about motivation, resistance, and human behavior can make the difference between squandering and embracing a future requiring change. Peter Coutts has provided a text rich in ideas, practices, and strategies that can open a fruitful future. In an engaging combination of theory and story, Coutts addresses the vexing question, ‘How do we actually get there?’ If you are guiding change in your faith community, this needs to be on your shelf. The necessary science of motivation helps a pastor help a church to move from here to there, and from now to then in fulfilling its part in the mission of God. Choosing Change unlocks the keys to motivation, which unleashes the church to act with wisdom and boldness. Coutts’s work is profoundly pastoral, savvy in its approach to change, and grounded in a rich variety of disciplines. It makes a substantial contribution to our understanding of congregational change.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781566994828
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: How to Motivate Churches to Face the Future
  • ISBN-10: 1566994829
  • Publisher Date: 05 Aug 2013
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 240


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