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