How I Can Help

My ongoing objective supervision and mentorship will help you to make sure that you are on track to achieve your goals, nourish your mind and spirit, and remain an invaluable member of a synagogue professional team. Contact me to arrange a complimentary 30-minute introductory session to see if we are a good fit.

Here are just a few aspects of synagogue life I can help you navigate through our work together:

 
Howard Stahl Executive Coach and Mentor

Workplace Dynamics

As synagogue professionals, we face unique and challenging workplace dynamics. The skills I can help foster include:

  • balancing and learning from criticism so that professional relationships are not compromised or damaged

  • working toward a healthy Board, clergy and synagogue professional relationships

  • enhancing team dynamics 

  • creating appropriate boundaries with staff and congregants 

  • accepting and dealing with criticism - constructive and otherwise

  • work/life balance - balancing personal and professional time without compromising commitment to the congregation or your family

  • fundraising and synagogue leadership training

  • guidelines for successful contractual negotiations

  • congregational staff transitions

  • planning for and achieving a successful and meaningful retirement

Counseling & Lifecycle

Congregants turn to clergy and other synagogue professionals during their most vulnerable times, both joyful and challenging. Learn effective strategies for:

  • counseling couples

  • crisis counseling

  • coping with the trauma you take on as the caregiver

  • handling especially difficult situations involving grief and loss

  • navigating complex family relationships

Pulpit Dynamics Review

Although it does not represent the majority of our work, we are most visible to congregants when on the pulpit. As a pulpit cantor and performing artist, I can provide:

  • critical analysis of your pulpit presence

  • tools to build consensus on shaping the flow and arc of services

  • guidance on how to deal with conflicting opinions on musical and liturgical choices and polarizing criticism

  • feedback and coaching on life-cycle ceremony presence