Leadership Development

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• Leadership Development
• April 07

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OK Youre the leader What are you meant to do
now?
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• Which of these must you personally see to?
• Lunch doesnt happen on time
• the bookstall doesnt balance
• the main meeting programme could be better
• the memory verse people dont know what they are
  doing
• the main meeting doesnt run to time
• the evening team devotions isnt inspiring
• the guest speakers never know when theyre on
• the kids only learn songs from the pre 1970s
• kids run away during outdoor games
• the tents arent guarded at night
• parents dont park their cars in a safe place
• there isnt enough games equipment
• the team dont go to bed

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Bono

• Find out what God is doing, because its already
  blessed

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Three choices
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Lead or Manage
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Leader
or
Manager
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• The most important thing you can do as a leader
  is lead

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Lead or Manage?

• We shouldnt be doing this we should be doing
  something else

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Lead or Manage
Listen or Tell
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365 days
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Listen or Tell?

• Listening
• Prayer, Bible Reading, and other reading
• Experience - A listening year
• Asking questions of the right people
• Who are the people to ask?

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Listen or Tell?
Team
Local Churches
Parents
Kids
SU
Other CSSMs
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Listen or Tell?

• Listening
• Ways of asking questions
• 1-1s
• Group meetings
• Questionnaires
• Using time before, during and after CSSM sessions
  to talk with parents, kids and leaders

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Listen or Tell?

• Now you have listened, its time to
• Make decisions, and
• Communicate the vision
• Our key priorities are
• By the end of this we want to achieve

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Activity

• What could be the process for discovering and
  articulating the vision in your camp or mission?

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Activity
You are a new leader chatting to a section
leader. She says We get the same children here
every year, its important not to upset them by
changing anything

• How would you lead in this situation?

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Lead or Manage
Listen or Tell
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Lead or Manage
Once you know where youre going the leaders job
is to ensure youre going there
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How could we be doing things better?

• Keep asking this question
• Watching, looking, talking, listening
• Giving out praisings and redirections
• Your words have weight
• Encouragement is gold dust - catch people doing
  it right
• Constructive criticism is the gold dust of gold
  dust

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Lead or Manage
Good or Best
Listen or Tell
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Good or Best?

• What are the most important things?
• What would we stop?

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Activity
Your team is running out of money / time /
people. You must stop some substantial activity.
What is it?
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Good or Best?

• Getting the right people
• Choosing a co-leader
• Choosing a leadership team
• Also needs to be done carefully
• Empowerment
• Letting other people shine
• Not being threatened The better they look, the
  better CSSM looks

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Situational Leadership

• Direction
• This is how you do it
• Coaching
• Lets work together on this
• Supporting
• How can I help you with this?
• Delegation
• Heres the outcomes we need to achieve, and the
  parameters - you work out how to do it.

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Take time out
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Lead or Manage
Good or Best
Listen or Tell