Session Details for Leadership Boot Camp: Leadership for the Church in Our Time & Our Place
Saturday, January 28, 2018
Morning Session: Getting to Know You…
- Introductions, expectations and setting the them and course for the Journey of Leaderships
- Sharing our context of leadership
Afternoon Session: Self-Awareness of I Am…
- Your Three-Dimensional Self: Theory X, Y & Z - You’ll Never Have Enough Information
- “I Am” Statements and the Pareto Principle - The 80/20 Rule applied as a prioritization of life
- Kronos/Kairos Journey of Life and Grace Moments
- The Triune Brain: The Physiological Basis of Family/Emotional System Theory
- The Math Formula for Leadership in Life
- Realms of Influence and Concern
- The Butterfly Effect
- “I AM Yours!” The Rev. Dr. Steven R. Rottgers+
- “The Servant Leadership Workbook” The Rev. Dr. Steven R. Rottgers
- “Taming the Dragon Within Us” The Rev. Dr. Steven R. Rottgers
Saturday, February 24, 2018
Morning Session: I Am Part of a Family, a Community and a System!
- Genograms
- Introduction to Systems Thinking
- Next Steps of Emotional/Family Systems Theory
- Healthy vs. Dysfunctional Behavior
- Self-Differentiation
- Triangles
- Sabotage
- Passive Aggressive Antagonist
- Empathy
- Compassion
- Manipulation
- “How Your Church Family Functions” The Rev. Dr. Peter Steinke
Afternoon Session: Challenges to Differentiated Leadership
- “Failure of Nerve” Discussion
- “The Tale of Two Brains” (video and Discussion)
- Understanding and Avoiding “Leadership Disease”
- The Diffusion of Innovation: The Bell Curve of Adoption
- Peter Steinke on Leadership (video)
- “Failure of Nerve”, Rabbi Edwin Freidman
Saturday, March24, 2018
Morning Session: Shifting the Focus from Me to Us, Maintaining Self Yet Leading Community
- The Johari Window
- Target of Life – Expanded Application
- Edwin Freidman on Leadership (video)
- The Good, Bad and the Ugly of Leadership
- Trust, Influence and Power Dynamics
- Contextual Power Dynamics
- The Art of Delegation/Empowerment
Afternoon Session: Emotional Intelligence
- EQ vs. IQ
- Emotional Quadrants-Self Management and Relational Maintenance
- Leadership Styles and Applications
- The Iceberg Effect- Grace Realms
- “Primal Leadership- Learning to Lead with Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman
Saturday, April 28, 2018
Morning Session: Sizing Up Your Congregation for Growth
- Explore the dynamics of:
- The Family Sized Congregation
- The Pastoral Sized Congregation
- The Transitional Sized Congregation (if applicable to class)
- The Program Sized Congregation (if applicable to class)
- The Corporate/Resource Sized Congregation (if applicable to class)
- Leadership and Mission in Your Church’s Paradigm
- “Sizing Up a Congregation for New Member Ministry” from “Congregational Vitality Series” The Rev. Arlin Rothauge
Afternoon Session: Church Dynamics seen through Systemic Lenses
- Review: What is a System?
- Multiple Systems and Internal Customers
- Profound Knowledge (Red Beads video)
- Common Cause and Special Cause Variation - Knowing the Difference
- Jesus, Moses and the Pareto Principle: The 80/20 Rule
- Voice of the System as related to The Voice of the Customer
- 14 Points of Leadership applied to Systems
- 7 Deadly Sins of Poor Leadership to Systems
- The Key use of Vision, Mission and Core Values
- “The Power of a Positive Vision” (video)
- W. Edwards Deming “The New Economics”
- “Studying Church Structures-The Quality Questions” Steven R. Rottgers
- “Ripe for the Harvest” The Rev. Dr. Steven R. Rottgers
Saturday, May 19, 2018
Morning Session: Leadership and Management: The Differences
- Change vs. Stasis: The 4 “C’s” of Change
- The Diffusion of Innovation: Revisited
- Paradigm Dynamics as an Ally and not as an Adversary
- Paradigm Paralysis
- The Art/Finesse of Facilitating Systemic Change
- The Continual Improvement Loop: the PDCA Cycle
- Kaizen Dynamics and the “S” Curve of Change
- Empowering the worker for excellence and for change
- Seeing the Church as a Service/Servant Industry
- The Great Commandment and the Great Commission
- “The Business of Paradigms” (video)
- "Change your course" (video)
- “The New Economics”- Deming
- “Church Structures and Questions”- Rottgers
- Final paper discussion
- Q&A
- Wrap Up