I’m working on a tool to develop leaders

Very excited about a project I’m working on these days. I’m creating a tool to help leaders develop and grow. My goals: to be (a) intentional without being cumbersome, and (b) beneficial for any leader, from rookies to veterans.
 
It isn’t a leadership teaching, it’s not “Matt’s ten steps to being a good leader.” There is already tons of great training material out there, and let’s be honest: much of it is better than I could hope to create. I’d like to add my voice in a different way.
 
Essentially, I’m creating a series of worksheets, each one with a specific purpose to help a leader be more effective or gain new insight. A leader could use this tool on his or her own. Or, a leader of leaders could use it in concert with specific leadership training that is already in place.
 
My senior pastor sees the student ministry team as a key place in the church to develop leaders, and this will become a core tool to make this happen. 
 

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this month’s volunteer leader training

As a youth ministry leadership team, we gather once a month to build community and get a little training.

 

It was our second meeting of the school year, the first one focused primarily on small group training. This month, we needed to look at the over all strategy for our ministry (DOWNLOAD HERE ). Three reasons why a leader needs to repeat the important stuff about his or her ministry:

1. A leader can’t assume that everyone remembers the vision. Volunteers are busy and have many personal concerns. Although they love serving in the youth ministry, it’s only one part of their life. A leader has to repeat the important stuff.

2. The vision for your youth ministry is exciting…at least it ought to be. Your strategy is all about helping students grow spiritually, why wouldn’t you want to talk about that!?!!

3. A leader repeats the vision to equip the other leaders for success. Youth ministry is all about relationships, but there is more to ministry than making friends with adolescents. As spiritual mentors, we ought to have a path for spiritual growth. Of course personal spirituality can’t be carbon copied from one person to the next, but having a process creates an essential starting point for leaders to mentor students.

 

 

 

 

 

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youth ministry training: small group adult leader training

We are kicking off our small groups next week, so last week we had some training for our adult leaders.

You can grab the PDF HERE.

It’s A LOT of content…normally I wouldn’t have quite this much…however, we added a bunch of new volunteers and we are running a new small group program. Our meeting went for about two hours, the first 30 minutes was eating and hanging out, and then the last 90 minutes was me teaching. Part way through the training, we had everyone do the Bible study activity like the students will be doing.

THIS PART WAS GREAT!

When we do this next time around, I’m hoping to make it a more interactive meeting.

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leadership training for my high school ministry team

 

I’m blessed to be at a church where I get to serve with a team. We just added some new people, so it felt like it was time to lay down some leadership foundations. You can find them in the PDF HERE. I’m hoping my ideas can spark your ideas about what it means to lead well in youth ministry. Clear expectations set our leaders up to win. With a clear picture of “success,” (or faithfulness), your leaders will know what they ought to be doing, and be equipped to evaluate their own ministry.

What do you think? What’s missing? Is something unclear? Drop a comment below and lemme know what you’re thinking.

 

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