Posted on 1/31/2012 by Brent Dolfo in the Learnings Blog
For the past two years, the churches in Group 1 of Leadership Network's Leadership Development community have been working hard at redesigning, innovating and implementing their processes to increase the number and quality of leaders produced by their churches.
Working from the concept of a churchwide "Leadership Pipeline", participants have been looking at their processes for developing leaders from the initial "leader of others" to "leaders of leaders" and eventually "leaders of campuses" and "
leaders of churches". By developing clear steps, and necessary outcomes in theology, spiritual formation, practice and character at each level, churches have been able to finetune a better pathway for leadership development. Some still use a class model, others use a "anytime, anywhere, anyplace model with a mentor and online system.
The community has also looked at developing great internships, creating cultures of leadership development, evaulating various staffing structures to accelerate leadership development.
The community met 4 times over a two year period to learn from another, evaulate their process and adapt their models and strategies to fine tune their church wide leadership development experiences.
Our Group 3 is going to start meeting this August. If you're interested in finding out more, let me know. brent.dolfo@leadnet.org
Comments
Enjoyed reading the viyarng academic models to immerse students into leadership programs. Your blog mentions the failure of online interactions; thus, I believe the one-on-one coaching sessions are key to develop and maintain leadership skills with students. While a wide range of academic theories and models are important and necessary, there are immeasurable lessons in practical experience through internships that I also believe are essential to supplement academia. Organizational issues, I find, are rather spontaneous and complex, making them very difficult to predict at times.