Catholic Leadership Institute has helped parishes and dioceses around the country determine priorities and create a vision for their communities. The Disciple Maker Index is an indispensable tool to help your parish make data-driven decisions and plan around your particular strengths and opportunities. This page provides useful resources and worksheets to assist you as you explore your DMI results.
Parish Planning Resources
Envisioning the Parish
The first step for planning for the future of your parish is to begin envisioning the ideal community you would like to foster. Below are several resources that Catholic Leadership Institute has used over the last two decades to help parishes identify a vision for the parish.
CLI has worked with individual parishes and with dioceses around the country to help them envision the future of their communities. If you would like more information on how CLI can help facilitate the envisioning process for you, contact us today.
| Five Foundational Ministries Worksheet | |
| Foundational Ministries are the essential ongoing work of an organization—the way an organization fulfills its sacred purpose, lives out its values, and pursues its vision. A critical component of envisioning the parish is aligning your priorities and goals to a larger vision. This worksheet helps provide an overview of this Leadership Model of Alignment, and how you can set goals based on the Five Foundational Ministries for a healthy and holy parish. | |
| Process to Create a Healthy and Holy Parish | |
| CLI has identified four disciplines to create a Healthy and Holy Parish. This high level overview document provides a general process on when and how to move forward in your envisioning process. | |
| Determine Your Three Pastoral Priorities | |
| After creating your vision and reflecting on your DMI results and Foundational Ministries, this worksheet will help you narrow down your focus to three priorities for your parish. | |
| Envisioning Worksheet | |
| To create a Mutually Shared Vision, there are three primary components--Purpose, Values, and Vision. Combined with the other documents in this section, this worksheet offers a framework for how to make a meaningful plan for your community that fosters the faith of your parishioners. | |
SMART Goals
Learn about SMART Goals and how they can help you plan and measure growth as you progress in your vision.
SMART Goal Worksheet
This downloadable worksheet helps provide you a framework to brainstorm your SMART Goals. Once you have taken the time to dive into your data, this guide will help you organize your ideas and begin planning.
Your SMART Goals should cover items you either want to achieve, avoid, or improve. This worksheet will help you guide you as you brainstorm your SMART Goals.
To learn more about SMART Goals before you get started, watch the video below to learn how this kind of goal setting is unique, and how it can make your growth measurable and motivating!
Action Planning & Implementation
Once you have created a vision and set goals, it is time to get to work making the vision a reality. The resources in this section offer helpful tools to strategize how to make things happen.
The first step for planning for the future of your parish is to begin envisioning the ideal community you would like to foster. Below are several resources that Catholic Leadership Institute has used over the last two decades to help parishes identify a vision for the parish.
CLI has worked with individual parishes and with dioceses around the country to help them envision the future of their communities. If you would like more information on how CLI can help facilitate the envisioning process for you, contact us today.
| Action Planning Worksheet | |
| This form provides a template to help you think through a procedure, process, or skill you want to accomplish. | |
| DMI Strengths & Opportunities Planning | |
| As you go through your DMI Results, use this downloaded worksheet to record potential strengths and opportunities in your parish. This is a useful step to steps you need to take in your parish. | |
| DMI Goal Action Worksheet | |
| Once you have identified your SMART Goals, use this form to track milestones and specific actions needed to measure and achieve your goal. | |
| Communication Planning | |
| Who are your Key Audiences? What is your key message? Use this Communication Planning sheet to identify key constituencies, key messages, desired outcomes, timeline, and who is responsible for communicating different components of your plan and goals. | |
Role Planning & Leading Teams
| Create a Vision For Your Role | |
| This form provides a template to envision your ideal role, identify values, and craft a purpose statement. | |
| Identify your Key Responsibility Areas | |
| Key Responsibility Areas (KRAs) extend beyond a job description to include the contribution and purpose of the role. They are the outcome of the process of refining role functions A Key Responsibility Area Statement describes ongoing role functions. This document offers a walkthrough guide to identify how your role can facilitate your priorities. | |
| Charter A Team | |
| A key component of a successful plan is an effective team that can implement it. This document provides a guide to chartering a team, including advice on who to invite and how to set ground rules. | |
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