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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
Reading Materials:
  • “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
Reading Materials:
  • “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)
Reading Materials:
  • “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
Reading Materials: 
  • “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
Reading Materials:
  • “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)
Reading Materials: Assigned portions of the works of:
  • 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)
Reading Materials:
  • “The New Economics”- Deming
  • “Church Structures and Questions”- Rottgers
Afternoon Session: Sharing Case Studies and Looking Forward
  • Final paper discussion
  • Q&A
  • Wrap Up
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Address for Tuition Payments/Donations:
The Very Rev. Don Compier, BKSM Dean
410 SE Independence Ave.

Lee’s Summit, MO 64063
Physical Address:
Bishop Kemper School for Ministry

701 SW 8th Avenue
Topeka, KS 66603

The Bishop Kemper School for Ministry is a collaborative venture of the Episcopal Dioceses of Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, West Missouri, Nebraska and Western Kansas.
BKSM also partners with the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
BKSM offers classes and programs to educate people for church leadership in both lay and ordained vocations.