Are you happy with the leadership development results of your church?
Most pastors are not.
Barna’s 2020 State of the Church reports that “One in four U.S. pastors (23%) selects ‘Lack of leadership training and development” as a major concern facing their church today.”
Nearly every church I talk to longs for an intentional leadership development strategy. Yet, few can articulate what that would look like for their church.
In this time of the COVID-19 lockdown, take 30 minutes and complete the evaluation exercise below to help you assess the current leadership development efforts of your church.
Here are the basic steps:
- List all intentional methods you are currently using to develop leaders. Break them into two categories: What are we doing to train NEW leaders? What are we doing to provide ongoing equipping for our EXISTING leaders?
- Identify any existing leader that is making efforts to reproduce new leaders. Who are these individuals? What methods are they using?
- Now that you have a list of methods, rate the effectiveness of each on a scale of 1-5, One being totally ineffective and five being highly effective and reproducible.
- If you rated a method a 4 or 5, ask why that method is being productive. If you rated a method 1 to 3, ask why that method is not sufficient?
- Next ask: Are there methods that we are not employing to develop leaders that we should be using?
- Now, ask: Who are the top people that have the potential to reproduce themselves? How can I engage them in the most effective methods of developing leaders?
- Write out an action plan for improving your leadership development process.
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