Coaching, Developing, Leadership
I talk about Barnabas a lot. He’s one of my favorite biblical characters… probably because he functions as a behind-the-scenes coach empowering others. I heard a talk that Bubba Justice gave on the practices of a Barnabas, taken from his study of the book of Acts....
Coaching, Leadership, Networking
The second of the four essential elements for making any network fully functional is personalized coaching. Powerful networks always have effective coaching relationships. In a sense, a network is a coaching system—a coaching environment—much more so than a series of...
Coaching, Developing, Leadership
Sometimes when you’re coaching someone and seeking to develop them in their leadership, they run up against some kind of blockage. If you probe a little further into their background, you might find the roots of the blockage. What have they experienced in ministry?...
Coaching, Leadership, Training
Yesterday’s entry was about Pastor Tad Blackburn’s experience using a retreat setting to process the results of the discipleship assessment. One observation I made was how crucial the follow through is. People could have had any number of breakthrough insights at the...
Coaching, Leadership, Networking, Teambuilding
The most common way to do coaching is one-on-one. Yet I’ve found that another strategy that works well is coaching one-on-three– what I call coaching clusters. As a coach, I have each person prepare individually. Then during a 90-minute session, I coach each...
Coaching, Leadership, Teambuilding
Part of the challenge within many churches that implement coaching for their staff is that they often don’t have the luxury of separating the coaching and the supervision functions. In many churches the supervisor is the one who is providing the coaching. That...
