Essential Tools for URJ Congregations make it easier for you to manage the work of leading your congregation. Each toolkit is curated to help you with the top tasks and priorities North American congregational leaders ask us about every day. These toolkits promote healthy organizations and sacred partnership among leaders with practical, easy-to-use tools. Each toolkit contains various interactive items-including templates, checklists, reflection exercises, and more-intended to be personalized for your congregation's unique needs. Fill out our request form for instant access to any toolkit.
URJ Toolkit: Effective Meeting
This toolkit provides a strategic approach to ensuring that every meeting you lead is productive, focused, and aligned with your congregation's mission, vision, and values. Read more about it!
Included:
- Agenda templates
- Meeting planning checklists
- Suggested meeting norms
URJ Toolkit: Your Role as a Congregational Leader
This toolkit is designed to help you - regardless of your position - better serve in your role as a congregational leader and understand its unique nature.
Included:
- Sacred partnership guide
- Congregational ambassadorship checklist
- Tools for establishing role clarity
- Goal setting templates
- Racial Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (REDI) resources
URJ Toolkit: Board Membership
Coming soon! This toolkit will help prepare board members for their unique role as a fiduciary, strategic, and generative leader. Included:
- Role description guide and template
- Board member responsibilities checklist
- Governance reflection exercises
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