Leadership Resources
One helpful way of thinking about leadership is with the Leadership Triangle.
Leadership has 3 components:
A leader must be able to lead themselves, they must be able to lead others,and they must be trying to reproduce their core character and competencies in others who will one day be able to do what the leader can do.
The important (and often overlooked) truth is that leaders must be able to lead themselves BEFORE they attempt to lead others. Selfish motivations,inability to self-reflect, and a number of other character flaws will eventually surface, harming the people and the organization in the leader’s orbit. You probably know a few stories about people who have aspired to leadership but were derailed because they didn’t do the soul work required to lead self and others with integrity.
Once a leader has committed to the life-long process of internal soul work, the next step is to lead in a way that equips and empowers others toward a common good. And, when a leader equips and empowers others, she will also need to have a plan to send her apprentices out to lead others. That’s multiplication at it’s finest and simplest.
We have created 4 interactive training workshops to help your leadership team grow in these core areas of leadership. The training sessions can last from a few hours to a whole weekend, depending on your availability and what you hope to accomplish. All of the sessions are grounded in solid theory and are supremely practical. You will walk away from each of them with tools you can use in your ministry context.
Here are four options that GLCC can offer to your ministry team:
1) A general overview of Leadership Development. The big picture view spanning everything from what leadership is to how we multiply ourselves as leaders. This is the best place to start if those in the room haven't spent a lot of time considering their Leadership Development Pathway. It incorporates all of the aspects of the Leadership Triangle: Lead Yourself, Lead Others, Reproduce.
2) Lead Yourself - Cultivating spiritual and leadership rhythms and practices that encourage healthy dynamics in the leader. Participants will be led in a workshop that discusses the unconscious and reactive ways we operate, will survey a few core Christian practices that create new rhythms, and then they will create a Rule of Life that leads them to embrace these Christian rhythms and practices that lead to life and vitality. The Rule of Life is a personal discipleship plan, and something that every leader should explore.
3) Lead Others - A look at the Process View of leadership, proposed by Peter Northouse in Leadership Theory and Practice. This workshop discusses the mental models we use to navigate the world, and dives into sense-making theory before suggesting good leaders make sense out of our experiences and then participate in God’s activity in, through, and ahead of us in the world. This workshop offers a mental model for leadership that is oriented toward personal and organizational health and is deeply missional in it’s shape.
4) Reproduce - A walk through the three stages of leadership that multiplies itself: identifying emerging leaders, equipping emerging leaders, and sending leaders. Participants will be introduced to a very practical process for creating their own leadership pipeline that arises out of the unique context of their ministry setting. This workshop is currently being created through collaboration with General Synod and the Regional Synod of the Great Lakes. Look for details coming soon!
All 4 workshops are highly participatory, and practical. Contact me today to learn more! You can reach me at tanner@harborchurches.org.
Grace and Peace,
Tanner Smith
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