S6 E16: Is Your Congregation Healthy?

Melanie Preston joins JC and Matt to share her understanding of how congregations can be healthy organizations. The conversation includes how to define organizational health, the importance of paying attention to burnout, why it's important to develop boundaries and how manipulation can harm a congregation. Matt and JC talk about their experiences working with congregations and the idea of organizational health and share some resources on the topic.

Resources

This House We Build: Lessons for Healthy Synagogues and the People Who Dwell There (book)

5LQ Episode 324: The Advantage Book Breakdown (podcast)

The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else in Business (book)

Matter of Focus Counseling (Melanie's company)