The proposals are presented in a report written by Lord Green, a former British trade minister and HSBC chairman, and prepared with outside help from Christopher McLaverty, a former talent leadership chief at BP, an oil supermajor. As much as £2m ($3m) has been set aside to enact the “talent management programme”, which will provide 150 bishops with the means to study at INSEAD’s campus in Fontainebleau, France, over the next two years. The aim is that clergy, who often come into a high-profile post within the church with little training, are given more adequate preparation for their role, including the ability to build and manage a high-functioning support team. “Simply arriving at moments of appointment and then looking to see who might or might not, by a process of amounting to chance, have suitable preparation and gifting, is to abandon all responsibility,” Mr Welby wrote in support of the Green report.
Sending bishops to business school will kickstart a “culture change for the leadership of the church”, the report says. But it admits that the preponderance of phrases such as “talent pool” and “alumni network” peppered throughout the paper may put off more staunch theologians. Yet that hasn’t stopped the language of business breaching the pious institution. In an appendix of Lord Green’s report, the net promoter score (NPS), a loyalty metric developed by Bain & Company, a consultancy, is presented with a straight face as a hypothetical way of evaluating the benefit of the mini-MBA. With a fictionalised NPS of +75 (on a scale of -100 to +100), the church appears to be confident its plans will be well-received.
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Read it all.
I couldn’t get past ‘renowned theologian’… I don’t mean that in a snarky way at all, it simply isn’t true. It would be better for his office if he were, though I’m sure I’d disagree with his work. I normally bother to read the Economist.
I was a little bemused by that also – has he published anything on theology?
I am not saying that a bishop or archbishop must be a renowned theologian, and there have been some excellent ones that aren’t. But why try to make him out to be something he isn’t?
[blockquote] “he has brought extraordinary changes to the way his clergy manage their worshippers” [/blockquote]
Shouldn’t that be prefaced by, “he intends to bring extraordinary changes…” or “he plans to bring extraordinary changes…”? No training has actually occurred yet, let alone any change resulting from it. Sure, there’s a plan to spend £2 million on corporate training for potential CofE bishops. It may be put into action, and it may be successful, but at the moment its still at the plan stage.
[blockquote] “‘Simply arriving at moments of appointment and then looking to see who might or might not, by a process of amounting to chance, have suitable preparation and gifting, is to abandon all responsibility’, Mr Welby wrote in relation to the Green report.” [/blockquote]
Which is a strange way to put it – he is not advocating any alteration to what he calls “the process of amounting to chance”.
Rather, he is proposing to restrict the choice of the selection commissions to those who pass the Archbishop’s process, in particular the vetting course at Fontainebleau in France.
Like the journalist, the Archbishop needs to state what he means, in a straightforward manner.
Oh, he’s stating it by his physical presence at Trinity, Wall Street, where he can get mammon in exchange for his support of TEc and its NEW THANG(R) gospel. So he appears to believe that good business sense involves going where the money is, however tainted its acquisition by capitalism and failure to meet his expectations for England.
Cheerio! Here’s how Business School works, future attendees/conscripts/useful idiots!