Creating An Authentic Leadership Culture
Developing lay leadership in your church...

Making the development of lay leaders in your church a priority puts you into an elite category of church leaders. Most churches offer lip service to this issue. There is no more strategic investment you can make for the health and growth of your church than thinking clearly and creatively about growing more leaders.

The million-dollar question is...how do we do this? A successful strategy must be shaped around your church, one that grows the hearts of people resulting in stronger churches, schools, companies, and families. To determine whether ALI can help you, consider the following value statements and see if they reflect the attitudes of your senior leadership team. It's important that you are in alignment with these statements for ALI to be of help.

• The senior leaders of our church are committed to this task and personally open to the mentoring/coaching of others.
• The existing lay leaders in our church are open to community. This is more than being part of a small group. Leadership development happens as we do life and ministry together -- allowing others to impact and teach us.
• The pastoral staff, beginning with the senior pastor, are all open to model what life-to-life investment looks like. This is not a program that will be adopted; it is a life style that is to be lived.
• The staff is willing to make multiplying their leadership and the training of lay leaders a core value in the church. They are willing to integrate leadership development into the church calendar.
• The staff believes that leadership development is life development. We are not interested is simply creating more volunteers for our church, we want to build strong fully-devoted- followers of Christ so that a person's entire life is transformed.
• The church believes in leadership development enough to allot resources to this task.

The strategy...

Over a two-year span ALI will bring a team of associates to assist and aid in the creation of your leadership multiplying strategy . The goal is to integrate this value into the lives and behavior of every leader resulting in a leadership culture within your church.

This will involve:

• an assessment of the senior leadership team
• work with the staff team focusing on community
• four waves of leadership training to lay leaders addressing; The Leadership of the HEART, the lost art of self-leadership; • Increasing Personal Impact, the attitudes and actions of servant leadership; • LEADERSHIP The Long Way Around, personalizing your leadership journey, and • Looking to Your Future Plan
• four waves of focused small groups that follow each training
• ongoing coaching of senior leaders and continuous evaluation of progress

If you have interest in discussing a two-year partnership with ALI to grow your lay leadership team, e-mail Dan Webster at dan@authenticleadershipinc.com.