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 \u00c2\u00a32m ($3m) has been set aside to enact the \u201ctalent management programme\u201d\u009d, which will provide 150 bishops with the means to study at INSEAD\u2019s 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. \u201cSimply 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,\u201d\u009d Mr Welby wrote in support of the Green report.<\/p>\n
Sending bishops to business school will kickstart a \u201cculture change for the leadership of the church\u201d\u009d, the report says. But it admits that the preponderance of phrases such as \u201ctalent pool\u201d\u009d and \u201calumni network\u201d\u009d peppered throughout the paper may put off more staunch theologians. Yet that hasn\u2019t stopped the language of business breaching the pious institution. In an appendix of Lord Green\u2019s 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. 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…<\/span><\/p>\n
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