Last week I had the opportunity to attend the Right Now conference [www.RightNow.org] and I thought I would share the notes with you.Here is day one, day two will follow later this week.
Enjoy! 😀
Anthony
- Best Practices of Leadership Development in Group Ministry[Mac Lake, Chris Fletcher, James Morgan, Jason Williams]
- Small Group Coaches need a name change = “Coaches” needs to be changed to “Trainers”
- Coaches are fired for performance
- Coaches are always in the lives of those they coach. Trainers train and step back.
- Trainers should lead groups with clear expectations
- What are the meeting goals for the small group trainers?
- How many meetings do we want to have for small group leaders?
- *First 6-9 months is key for leader training!
- “You only believe what you do” – If you believe but don’t do, you don’t truly believe. It is not about what you do in your head but how you live your life!
- Trainers are the top 10% of culture changers. Look for the 10% culture changers to influence the culture of your leaders.
- Small Group Coaches need a name change = “Coaches” needs to be changed to “Trainers”
- Developing a Personal Leadership System [Mac Lake] *Check Blog*
- Book Simple Church
- Leading people is always a challenge but we must recognize that we are entrusted with a great responsibility to lead the church of the future
- How are you leading? Are your people quiting?
- “People don’t quit jobs, they quit managers” – I love the vision of our ministry but I can’t get on board with him
- Mac Lake’s Personal Leadership System
- 4 Reasons to have a personal leadership system
- The way you lead has direct impact to the way people engage in your mission
- Inconsistent behaviors create insecurities among your followers (inconsistency takes away from leading)
- Good Leaders understand that evaluating poor performance from your team starts by looking in the mirror (perform a mistakes audit every 2 months – problems start first with the system, then implementation, then members)
- Having a leadership system gives me a way to address problems within the ministry
- “Why employees don’t do what they are supposed to do” – Diagnose why people don’t do what you desire them to do
- They don’t know why they should do it
- They don’t know how to do it
- They don’t know what they are supposed to do
- They think your way will not work
- They think their way is better
- They think something else is more important
- They think there is no positive consequence for them doing it
- They think they are doing it
- They are rewarded for not doing it (no consequences)
- They are or think they will be Punished for doing it
- They anticipate a negative
- Their personal limits prevent them from performing
- Their moral limits prevent them from performing
- “Why employees don’t do what they are supposed to do” – Diagnose why people don’t do what you desire them to do
- 5 Components to Lead Well
- You Must Lead Yourself Well – If you are going to lead people, you must invest in yourself [John Maxwell Books]
- It gives you credibility as a leader – Followers need to see you growing
- It enriches your leadership instincts
- Enables you to model what you expect
- You Must Care for the Souls of those you lead– Watch for discouragement in your leaders [discouragement leads to moral failure in your leaders]
- When you sincerely get to know their soul, they will follow wherever you go
- How full is your emotional tank, your spiritual tank and your physical tank? – watch your guages
- Keeps me in touch with what God is doing in their life and to your ministry – God uses us to help and mentor others [3 way relationships]
- Keeps me aware of their God inspired passion
- Keeps me in touch with their spiritual health
- Watch for Spiritual Strengths [Now Discover Your Strengths]
- Understanding your staff strengths allows you to position them for success
- When someone has a strength, it is just something they do
- Build job descriptions out of people’s strengths
- People who operate in their strength zone keeps them engaged
- Watch for the Personalities [DISC Test]
- Helps me understand people’s reactions
- Helps me know how to motivate them
- Watch your Expectations [One Minute Manager – Blanchard]
- Set 1 Minute Goals Everyday – Review Often
- What do you see happening over the next 4 months?
- If you do not have shared expectations with the people you lead, you will have shared frustrations with the people you lead
- “My job is to make you successful, not to make me successful”
- discuss goals on a regular basis, help them reach their goals, celebrate when they succeed
- If they do not know what the expectations are, they will get frustrated
- Make Sure to Celebrate
- Encourage leaders through the things they have done
- Mention their personalities to connect and share your love for them
- Reprimands and Redirections
- What adjustments need to be made to get the job done?
- Lay the expectations out on the table
- This lets you know when they need a greater challenge
- Give a basis for feedback and evaluation
- You Must Lead Yourself Well – If you are going to lead people, you must invest in yourself [John Maxwell Books]
- Meaningful Meeting Topics – Ask Questions to Redirect or Praise them
- Personal Things
- Priority Goals
- Problems Encountered
- Plan – Action Items for the Future
- Prayer
- (Praise them about something & Push them to be greater)
- 4 Reasons to have a personal leadership system
- Making Disciples Through Missional Communities[Josh Walters – Sea Coast]
- How do we as a church make disciples as the Lord commands in our community?
- What is a Missional community? > small group taking the mission of God to their community
- A group of thirty to fifty people who are united through Christian Community around a common service and witness to a particular neighborhood or network
- How is a Missional Community different from a small group? > size / feel / forum / function
- We must give a high invitation and a hard challenge to create an empowered environment
- Why would we switch models? > to be strategically better at discipleship
- Building a Culture to make Disciples into our Church
- We have to learn a new language
- Common language creates shared vision for the world you want to see
- 3DM Model
- kairos – appointed time in scripture that the Lord appears
- invitation, challenge, relationship and responsibility
- Persons of peace – trainers need to have relationship with small group leaders
- We have to be disciplined in consistently crafting and casting vision
- The churches vision is the means of staying on target
- We have had to develop and drive a new vehicle
- Pastors meet with huddles of small group trainers and small group trainers connect with small group leaders
- Small group trainers form Missional communities to connect with others
- We have to learn a new language
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- Best Practices of Leadership Development in Group Ministry[Mac Lake, Chris Fletcher, James Morgan, Jason Williams]
- Small Group Coaches need a name change = “Coaches” needs to be changed to “Trainers”
- Coaches are fired for performance
- Coaches are always in the lives of those they coach. Trainers train and step back.
- Trainers should lead groups with clear expectations
- What are the meeting goals for the small group trainers?
- How many meetings do we want to have for small group leaders?
- *First 6-9 months is key for leader training!
- “You only believe what you do” – If you believe but don’t do, you don’t truly believe. It is not about what you do in your head but how you live your life!
- Trainers are the top 10% of culture changers. Look for the 10% culture changers to influence the culture of your leaders.
- Small Group Coaches need a name change = “Coaches” needs to be changed to “Trainers”
- Developing a Personal Leadership System [Mac Lake] *Check Blog*
- Book Simple Church
- Leading people is always a challenge but we must recognize that we are entrusted with a great responsibility to lead the church of the future
- How are you leading? Are your people quiting?
- “People don’t quit jobs, they quit managers” – I love the vision of our ministry but I can’t get on board with him
- Mac Lake’s Personal Leadership System
- 4 Reasons to have a personal leadership system
- The way you lead has direct impact to the way people engage in your mission
- Inconsistent behaviors create insecurities among your followers (inconsistency takes away from leading)
- Good Leaders understand that evaluating poor performance from your team starts by looking in the mirror (perform a mistakes audit every 2 months – problems start first with the system, then implementation, then members)
- Having a leadership system gives me a way to address problems within the ministry
- “Why employees don’t do what they are supposed to do” – Diagnose why people don’t do what you desire them to do
- They don’t know why they should do it
- They don’t know how to do it
- They don’t know what they are supposed to do
- They think your way will not work
- They think their way is better
- They think something else is more important
- They think there is no positive consequence for them doing it
- They think they are doing it
- They are rewarded for not doing it (no consequences)
- They are or think they will be Punished for doing it
- They anticipate a negative
- Their personal limits prevent them from performing
- Their moral limits prevent them from performing
- “Why employees don’t do what they are supposed to do” – Diagnose why people don’t do what you desire them to do
- 5 Components to Lead Well
- You Must Lead Yourself Well – If you are going to lead people, you must invest in yourself [John Maxwell Books]
- It gives you credibility as a leader – Followers need to see you growing
- It enriches your leadership instincts
- Enables you to model what you expect
- You Must Care for the Souls of those you lead– Watch for discouragement in your leaders [discouragement leads to moral failure in your leaders]
- When you sincerely get to know their soul, they will follow wherever you go
- How full is your emotional tank, your spiritual tank and your physical tank? – watch your guages
- Keeps me in touch with what God is doing in their life and to your ministry – God uses us to help and mentor others [3 way relationships]
- Keeps me aware of their God inspired passion
- Keeps me in touch with their spiritual health
- Watch for Spiritual Strengths [Now Discover Your Strengths]
- Understanding your staff strengths allows you to position them for success
- When someone has a strength, it is just something they do
- Build job descriptions out of people’s strengths
- People who operate in their strength zone keeps them engaged
- Watch for the Personalities [DISC Test]
- Helps me understand people’s reactions
- Helps me know how to motivate them
- Watch your Expectations [One Minute Manager – Blanchard]
- Set 1 Minute Goals Everyday – Review Often
- What do you see happening over the next 4 months?
- If you do not have shared expectations with the people you lead, you will have shared frustrations with the people you lead
- “My job is to make you successful, not to make me successful”
- discuss goals on a regular basis, help them reach their goals, celebrate when they succeed
- If they do not know what the expectations are, they will get frustrated
- Make Sure to Celebrate
- Encourage leaders through the things they have done
- Mention their personalities to connect and share your love for them
- Reprimands and Redirections
- What adjustments need to be made to get the job done?
- Lay the expectations out on the table
- This lets you know when they need a greater challenge
- Give a basis for feedback and evaluation
- You Must Lead Yourself Well – If you are going to lead people, you must invest in yourself [John Maxwell Books]
- Meaningful Meeting Topics – Ask Questions to Redirect or Praise them
- Personal Things
- Priority Goals
- Problems Encountered
- Plan – Action Items for the Future
- Prayer
- (Praise them about something & Push them to be greater)
- 4 Reasons to have a personal leadership system
- Making Disciples Through Missional Communities[Josh Walters – Sea Coast]
- How do we as a church make disciples as the Lord commands in our community?
- What is a Missional community? > small group taking the mission of God to their community
- A group of thirty to fifty people who are united through Christian Community around a common service and witness to a particular neighborhood or network
- How is a Missional Community different from a small group? > size / feel / forum / function
- We must give a high invitation and a hard challenge to create an empowered environment
- Why would we switch models? > to be strategically better at discipleship
- Building a Culture to make Disciples into our Church
- We have to learn a new language
- Common language creates shared vision for the world you want to see
- 3DM Model
- kairos – appointed time in scripture that the Lord appears
- invitation, challenge, relationship and responsibility
- Persons of peace – trainers need to have relationship with small group leaders
- We have to be disciplined in consistently crafting and casting vision
- The churches vision is the means of staying on target
- We have had to develop and drive a new vehicle
- Pastors meet with huddles of small group trainers and small group trainers connect with small group leaders
- Small group trainers form Missional communities to connect with other
- We have to learn a new language
From 1991 1998, Miller served as Professor of Communication and Ministry Studies and Writer in Residence at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Ft.