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Leadership Development in Your Church

Sean Cronin — Sun, 25 Oct 2020 09:00:00 +0000

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Leadership Development in Your Church

By New Churches Team

Everyone is doing leadership development in some fashion. We approach development in the way we have been developed. Some people are doing an apprenticeship model. Some are using a classroom model. Whatever it is that you are doing from a leadership development standpoint make sure it aligns with your vision and values.

When you think about ways to roll out development that’s more systemized it can go one of two ways: department focused or a leadership pipeline strategy.

Department Focused Training

Many churches use this technique for training in which every ministry area trains in their own way and only trains their volunteers. But the larger you get, the more you begin thinking you need to centralize it. This leads to more and more classes and trainings that people need to attend. They are all taught by different leaders in the church. Volunteers who are serving in more than one area get inundated with training requirements. In many cases, ministry areas become very siloed which creates redundancies in volunteer training including multiple applications, data repositories, and expectations.

A Leadership Pipeline Strategy

What you want to do is provide clarity in your leadership development program. Getting down to one application, with addendum when necessary, means you can keep one data repository. When a person moves horizontally across ministries, they’ve already been through the application process.

Providing role descriptions that use the same template up and down the organization provides clarity. The core competencies are all the same for each level in the pipeline, no matter what ministry area they are serving in. This means that volunteers don’t need all new training when they move to a different ministry area. Across all departments what makes someone successful is 60-70% the same. Centralized training on that 60-70% can be done online then they can process the training information they received with other volunteers in their ministry area.

Development is for everybody, no matter where they are in the pipeline. Clarity on where you are going and taking people is important. The people in your pipeline will not develop without clarity.

Adapted from the New Churches Q&A Podcast Episode 466: How to Develop a Plan for Leadership in Your Church for 2020. Click here to listen to more to church planting, multisite, and multiplication tips.

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Episode 492: Roles in Churches After Reopening

Sean Cronin — Mon, 25 May 2020 09:00:33 +0000

by NewChurches.com: In Episode 492 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss what roles will be in churches when we reopen and how to prepare for those.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why clear role descriptions are important
What you can do with new role descriptions

Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“If we want to recruit people well and develop them well, the foundation of that is a good clear role description.” – @toddadkins
“If you are identifying the requirements or competencies that are necessary for the role, then you know what you need to train on.” – @toddadkins
“Roles are going to change that existed, and new roles are going to have to be established.” – @toddadkins
“How do you redeploy vulnerable volunteers? You need to have positions for them.” – @toddadkins
“People are wanting to serve during this time, we just need to give them the opportunity.” – @toddadkins
“We need to recognize that you do not grow into spiritual maturity apart from using your gifts in service to Christ.” – @toddadkins
“For their spiritual health, and some for their mental health, we need to find good roles for people to serve in in our churches.” – @toddadkins

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Episode 466: How to Develop a Plan for Leadership in Your Church for 2020

Sean Cronin — Sat, 22 Feb 2020 10:00:25 +0000

by NewChurches.com: In Episode 466 of the NewChurches Q&A Podcast, Daniel and Todd discuss developing plans for leadership in your church.

In This Episode, You’ll Discover:

Why a leadership pipeline is helpful
How to provide effective training to the entire church

Shareable Quotes (#NewChurches):

“Whatever you are going to do, make sure it aligns with your vision and values.” – @toddadkins
“The fruit of a volunteer is another volunteer. The fruit of a leader is another leader.” – @toddadkins
“When you get to the systems portion of pipeline, it is administratively heavy and the wheels fall off.” – @toddadkins
“Getting down to one application, with addendum where necessary, means that we can keep one data repository and when a person moves horizontally they have already filled out an application.” – @toddadkins
“Talk to one or two of your leaders and ask them where they think you are being unclear with them in expectations or information.” – @toddadkins
“Where you need to start is developing an equipping culture.” – @danielsangi
“Across all departments, 60-70% of what makes a leader effective at every level is the same.” – @danielsangi

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