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Category: Leadership Development

Customized Leadership Development Tool

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the changes taking place with leadership development.  One of those changes is Customized Learning plans.  Well, last week I was meeting with a sharp young worship leader who wants to develop his leadership skills.  During our meeting time we went through the following steps to develop a customized development tool he can use for himself and his team.  Identify a Key Job Responsibility Create a list of no more than…Continue Reading

“Just in Time” Leadership Development

Do you remember those long boring hours in school studying subjects that you could care less about?  Your teacher would try to motivate you by saying, “You’re going to need this one day”  There was no motivation to learn the subject because it just didn’t feel relevant at the time.  This type of “Just in Case”  training is rarely very effective, especially for adult learners.   However, this tends to be the approach we emphasize the…Continue Reading

Helpful Leadership Development Tools

Throughout my day yesterday I had the opportunity to meet with three different young leaders.  I walked away from each meeting impressed with the  hunger,  teachablity and leadership potential of each young man.   I envy these guys as they are beginning their leadership journey in this day and age.  We live in a world where we are surrounded by a wealth of content for self-development.  I mentioned this to one of these guys and told them – there was no internet when I…Continue Reading

7 Outcomes of Leadership Development

Every year your organization and mine spend thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours on leadership development.  We know it’s important, but what are we hoping to get from it all?  Below are seven things I hope our leadership development efforts produce. An increased sense of self-awareness among our leaders.  We want them to understand and live out who God has designed them to be as leaders. A greater ability to practice self-leadership.  Until a leader…Continue Reading

New Movements in Leadership Development, pt 4

People are very selective in how they use their discretionary time these days.  In large, this is why we hear church leaders complaining they can’t get people to come out for training events.  It’s not that people don’t want development, they just live busy and complex lives.  This is why we have to rethink our leadership development delivery system.   The Fourth Movement I see in Leadership Development is HI-TECH, HI-TOUCH APPROACH. Because we live in…Continue Reading