The Appreciative Way
Discover the essentials of the
Appreciative Way in this fast
read format book by Rob and
Kim Voyle.
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Welcome to Yes!3
Yes!3 is designed to help you
grow an appreciative culture
within your congregation by
helping parishioners create
a purpose centered life
in which they can say:
Yes! To God
Yes! To Their Neighbor
Yes! To Them Self
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What Participants Say
Rob's training is full of heart, wit, and passion.
E.R. Executive Coach
For me, the training was like walking through the looking - glass - the
world looks different, and I'm eager to learn to find my way and see it as the
"new normal."
It's already made an unforgettable difference with the people
I've talked with and preached to in the past 10 days - multiply that and ...WOW!!!
Rev. Judtith Lee
Rob's combination of organizational savvy, teaching skills, theological & spiritual integration, and ability to rapidly build supportive, learning communities is quite simply the best in any of
the churches today.
Gray Temple, Episcopal Priest, Author & Coach
After 45 years in the pastoral ministry and attending three events led by Rob Voyle, I have finally learned a better way to help church leaders help themselves and the people they serve.
John Wilkerson, Director: Church Leadership Coaching & Consulting
Rob will enhance your ability to delight in yourself, your neighbor and God through his insightful, practical, loving, professionally grounded, appreciative and often mischievous coaching and
teaching skills; and that will make you a better leader and citizen in God's creation.
Ed Leidel, Episcopal Bishop and Congregational Coach serving North America
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The Folly of Annual Performance Reviews
The worst thing in American business is the annual performance appraisal.
It evokes fear and robs workers of the right to pride in their workmanship...
Edward Demings
Think back over all the annual performance reviews that you have received...
How many left you:
- Inspired and motivated to a better job?
- Equipped and resourced to do a better job?
- With a mutual employer/employee understanding of what you were good at and how that could enrich both you and the company?
or did the review leave you:
- Angry and frustrated?
- Deeply hurt and demotivated?
- Thinking about quitting and finding a job where you would be appreciated?
I have asked that question in many executive coach training programs and on average only 8% of the respondents report a positive experience of reviews that improved their job performance.
Rather than achieve their purpose of improving performance, the annual performance review actually reduces effective performance and yet the majority of employers continue to use these destructive practices.
As a church consultant I have often seen these same destructive practices used in the church, often under the guise of "Mutual Ministry Review." For the sake of the church let us be smarter than the world and find an effective alternative!
An Appreciative Inquiry Based Alternative -
Creating Cultures of Excellence
To create a better world we don't need better people,
we just need to help people discover and be their best.
Just because annual performance reviews don't achieve their objective we don't have to give up on the pursuit of excellence.
We use an appreciative inquiry model of continuous improvement to create cultures of excellence in which we can:
- Celebrate achievement.
- Learn from mistakes and failure.
- Create cultures of creativity, acceptance and excellence.
From Mutual Ministry Review to Mutual Ministry Valuation
We cannot achieve life by having less death.
Rather than reviewing performance to discover what is wrong we need to discover what is valuable and how we can grow that which is valuable. By regularly reviewing what is valuable.
Here are three appreciative performance valuing questions:
- What did you value about what you did?
- What would you do next time to make it more valuable?
- What do you need to be able to improve its value in the future?
From Feed-Back to Feed-Forward
Do people need feed-back? If "yes" then why? ...
Most people affirm the need for feed-back but rarely with a clear understanding of why.
If the answer is to improve future performance (this actually is the only valid reason, since we will spend the rest of our lives in the future) then we need to ask: Does feed-back improve future performance? And the answer is categorically No!.
However feed-forward has shown it can improve future performance.
Let's define out terms:
- Feed-Back is commentary either positive or negative about what was done in the past.
- Feed-Forward is advice on what to do differently in the future. To improve performance the person must be able to imagine implementing the feed-forward.
To improve performance we need to spend our time focusing on what to do in the future and ensuring that people have the skills, motivation, and resources they need to implement those changes.
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Program Content
This program is currently being offered in two formats:
- One-day (typically Saturdays) for Church Leaders, Personnel Boards.
- Two and one half day follow-on programs from our Introduction to Appreciative Inquiry
In the Program Participants will Learn:
- How to create models of continuous improvement rather than annual reviews.
- How to create appreciative individual employee performance goals.
- How to transform critical feedback into positive feed-forward.
and in the 2.5 day program:
- How to facilitate an Appreciative Inquiry Summit to establish a congregation's vision and goals.
- Developing resources to creatively deal with criticism.
Course Objectives
- Participants will learn an appreciative inquiry based process of continuous improvement.
- Participants will learn the Folly of Feed-back and the Wisdom of Feed-forward.
- Participants will learn strategies to create program specific models for achieving and sustaining excellence.
Who Should Attend This Program
This program is especially designed for:
- Clergy and church leaders.
- Non-ordained persons engaged in ministry.
- Personnel Boards
- Psychologists, Consultants and Counselors
who are also clergy or who work with clergy and churches.
Costs for 2024
Costs vary depending on format and location.
One day programs are often capped so a congregation can send multiple members at a restricted price.
Specific times, costs, and cancellation fees of all programs may vary depending on the hosting organization.
Please check the schedule and registration page for additional workshop specific information.
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