Level 2 - Training Modules for Staff Development

A leader, in order to be effective, must be able to connect and communicate not only with those who follow the leader but also those who the leader serves. In addition to communicating vision, the ability to interpersonally relate is understood to be one of the essential characteristics of effective leadership. Authentic accountability combined with transparent disclosure and genuine feedback is the vehicle for understanding and trust.

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Whether you are sighting in for target shooting, calibrating an analytical instrument, aligning the wheels of a car or an organization, or spiritually centering a ministry or a personal life, one fact holds true—if you don’t have influence over the forces controlling accuracy, you have no mechanism to assure you will hit anywhere close to your intended target or goal. Optimal functioning requires alignment. Simply put, alignment is making sure the talk and the walk line up.

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Whether you are sighting in for target shooting, calibrating an analytical instrument, aligning the wheels of a car or an organization, or spiritually centering a ministry or a personal life, one fact holds true—if you don’t have influence over the forces controlling accuracy, you have no mechanism to assure you will hit anywhere close to your intended target or goal. Optimal functioning requires alignment. Simply put, alignment is making sure the talk and the walk line up. This workbook will take a ministry team through 12-15 weeks of deep core analysis to reaffirm the ministry's Mission, Vision, Goals and Operating Standards

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One of the more uncomfortable responsibilities of leadership is to correct a team member for behavior clearly contrary to ministry standards. The aim, of course, is always to build up. Helping a ministry team member to correct attitudes and actions of ministry is at the heart of discipleship. Challenges to authority and how the correction is received are issues in both employee and volunteer situations. Finding consistency both in applying discipline and in knowing when to terminate a ministry responsibility are important functions of leadership. Gentleness, with an eye on how correcting will affect ministry and the team member, not you, helps keep focus.

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