Unlock the secrets to building a strong leadership team with Andrea Buczynski’s five insightful videos. Gain practical steps and vision to ensure your ministry thrives. Watch and discuss today!
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I haven’t read a complete book in one day since… I don’t know how long. But I had a quiet, no-urgent-task Saturday, a beautiful fresh-breeze sunny day, and an empty back-porch couch all to myself. And I had a great book – full of hopeful words that drew me in and nourished my soul. It
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Change is often difficult for us, especially if we did not choose the change or have control over it. On the other hand, change is crucial for health and growth. Anything that is alive and growing is changing, and that is true of organizations as well. As you feel the effects of the change process,
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Entering a new role means moving into a new “gear” – shifting from a prior way of operating to a new way. We have a resource available for you to prepare your leaders for new roles. For several years, we have been helping leaders implement a Leadership Pipeline Process (LPP) in their countries. An effective
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Any time you are training others, it is important to know when to teach and when to coach. This is one of the most common questions we receive at Trainers Training events. Choosing the best approach for the situation helps you motivate and empower your new staff and volunteers for excellent results. Keith Webb has
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Change and transition are unavoidable in life. We go through lifestyle changes, health status changes, and job or role changes. When we want to discern God’s wisdom for a new direction, asking powerful questions can be very helpful. Sometimes we have the blessing of someone who will ask us the questions and process our answers.
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Team Leaders are doing extra work during this COVID-19 pandemic. So much of the way we work and do ministry has changed. Team members are facing challenges of health fears, decision fatigue, isolation, stay-at-home and lock down orders, craziness at home and new home-schooling responsibilities, and much more. We have never been through anything like
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As we fulfill the role of Direction Setter as leaders, we use a Strategic Plan. The process of strategic planning in closely linked to the Position Focus (PF) conversations we have with our team members individually and the People Meetings we have to determine how we prepare our people for future leadership roles needed on our plan. Roger Osbaldiston
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Key Development Assignments (KDAs) are a key element in our Position Focus conversations, the Staff Development Cycle and our Leadership Pipeline Process. We also call KDAs “STRETCH” assignments”. Here is a creative and helpful explanation of what that means. S – Specific and Strategic – Developmental assignments should be laser focused. What exactly do you want
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Life changes, and we must change with it. For a long time, we had only one style of new staff training: a year-long, full-time classroom setting of teacher-delivered lessons and mandatory check-offs a candidate had to complete in order to serve with us. That style is rarely the best way anymore. Today, we offer an
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As a team leader, you know how important it is to develop the members on your team. Developing your team members is an intentional, high priority part of your role as the team leader. The best way to do this is to have regular, individual conversations with each of the people on your team. These
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I receive a great newsletter from Jay Lorenzen called Life and Leadership. Last month, the topic was “Leaders are Learners”. He wrote some great ideas, and I want to share two of them with you: 1. BECOME AN AUTODIDACT “Almost all biographers use the word ‘autodidact’ to describe US President Abraham Lincoln. To be an
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Eric Schlottman from the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) Area has generously created a session for 1.10 Theological Development. As you may remember, specific theological content was not developed because the resources vary so greatly from Area to Area. However, Eric and the team felt it would still be helpful to have a basic session on that topic.
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I love to learn, and one way I love to learn is through reading books. Books fit well into the 5 E’s of leader development: environment, education, exposure, experience, evaluation, both as education and even as exposure (authors are a kind of mentor). Some helpful books for new leaders offer practical tips; others deal more
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My husband shared a blog post with me the other day written by John Barrett. I was not familiar with this author, but will now check out more of his resources. I thought his post was powerful. He wrote about four traits that damage teamwork. I thought these were very important to consider and wanted
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Hi Everyone! I wanted to let you know that we recently made some updates to the New Staff Training (NST) Resources. SESSION 5.5 Session 5.5 Life Changing Discipleship. Thanks to Keith Davy, we were able to update the links to the CoJourner resources in the GO DEEPER area on page five of Sesssion 5.5. The prior
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I love receiving newsletter and updates from those of you who are committed to New Staff Training around the world! Today I heard from Saiina in Mongolia. They were celebrating – with family, friends, disciples, ministry partners and pastors – the nine new staff who have completed their training this year! During their training year, the
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How can we recruit and train more people to be involved in the Great Commission? During the Global Leadership Conference (GLC) this past summer, the LDHR leaders identified key SHIFTS we need to make to achieve our 2020 goal of 10 million multiplying disciples. The first two of those SHIFTS are greater spiritual dependence and a volunteer friendly
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Hello Leaders! I recently found this article in Harvard Business Review (HBR) and thought you might find it interesting also. It may apply to a new leader you are training or to you personally – or both. The author, David Brendel, mentions four main tips for relaxing in your new role and letting go of some
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Would you like to ensure your New Staff learn and apply their training in the best way possible? The following are nine tips we’ve gathered from conversations with trainers around the world. 1. Ask questions. Chee Yee (Area LDHR in East Asia) suggests these: Did I pray? What is the main point of the session? What is my
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Sainbileg (Sainaa) attended the East Asia Orient NST Trainers Training in Korea last year where he learned about the 39 Outcomes and new philosophy of training. This is his second year directing the New Staff Training for Mongolia. He wrote this update: “For this coming year, we have nine trainees—two men and seven women. We are
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When you do group problem solving with your team, try this tip to make your time more effective… When groups get together to brainstorm, they actually come up with fewer ideas than the individuals in that group would have come up with on their own. That’s why it’s important to think about group problem
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by Benson Maina These key elements were confirmed while leading the New Staff Training in Kenya from August 2015 – May 2016. Preparing for the Training – I am indebted to the two Africa-wide NST Trainers trainings (in Harare and Nairobi). The materials given to us, the power points, the leader’s Guidebook, Orientation Manual and other notes have
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The Global New Staff Training was designed with a Sample Curriculum that includes head, heart, and hands elements for each of the 39 Outcomes. Each country or Area is encouraged to add outcomes and/or adjust the sample sessions to meet cultural, MCC, or other needs specific to its context. Here is a great post from
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Michael Hyatt is a leadership guru. He has learned a lot from his mistakes and generously shares his hard-earned wisdom with others on his BLOG. He recently wrote a post about the importance of aligning up – or what we often call influence leadership. I thought it was very helpful and wanted to share it
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New Staff really do represent the future of our movement, and to see their eagerness to learn and their enthusiastic participation is a great encouragement. We recently completed a four-day Trainers’ Training session in Panama for 17 trainers from nine countries in our Area (Panama, Venezuela, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Chile).
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After years of hard work, translation, and planning, we celebrate with Garrick Roegner, Debra Groff, Shelly Gilmore, Ruth McNeill, and other Western Europe staff as they launch the first-ever Agape Spain Global New Staff Training class for all of Agape—not just student ministry! Garrick shared with us that they began the training on a weekend
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It is great to hear stories of successful Team Leader Trainings around the world! Thanks to Western Europe and Southeast Asia Areas for sharing these stories and pictures! Last year, Western Europe took on the challenge of training 100 (!) field and capacity team leaders with 10 days of development for 1 purpose – healthy teams,
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by Steve Morgan Someone once asked me, “Why do you do what you do?” How would you answer that question? For me, and many of us, the answer comes down to CHANGED LIVES! We do what we do because we are making a difference in people’s lives. Do you remember when you first came to
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Are you feeling overwhelmed? Do you have too much to do? Are you wondering how to make more progress towards the mission? Those are common concerns for new team leaders, and my conversations this past week indicate that one answer is for leaders to invest in the growth and development of their team members and volunteers to
One key characteristic of healthy and fruitful leaders is life-long learning. We have a Learns as a Lifestyle session in this training under the “New Capacity” tab. One of the best ways to learn is to read. You can read on the train, under a shade tree, at a coffee shop, or on the beach. You
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Coaching groups are a powerful addition to a NST Trainers Training event. They are a great place to process questions and practice the learning content. Coaching groups serve various important purposes: They help the participants/trainers to get to know each other better. They create a interactive, peer learning community. They provide a great opportunity to increase skills
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Thanks to the excellent hard work of many, we can now offer the New Staff Training materials here in Chinese, German, and Portuguese (in addition to Spanish and English) for viewing and downloading. To access the materials, check the list on this page under the “Training the New Staff” tab. If you have NST materials translated
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“Remember, when you select someone, talent doesn’t equal character. Their character will ultimately determine whether their talent is usable.” (Dr. Henry Cloud) Check out the Leadership Framework page to help you grow in character and leadership skills. There are lots of resources, slide decks, and articles to help you become the kind of leader worth
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The following guest post is by Terry Morgan. Her blog is MaturitasCafe.com. She writes about learning and leadership in an authentic, warm, honest and challenging way. You can sign up to follow her blog on the site. Chess not Checkers offers some great insights for new team leaders…Enjoy! ___________________________________ I don’t even know how to play
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