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Three Essential Ingredients for Growing Your Small Group Ministry

Three Essential Ingredients for Growing Your Small Group Ministry. w ith Dr. Randy Wollf. What Makes Small Group Ministries Grow?. 3. Three. three. 3. There are three key church factors. 3. iii. An Atmosphere of Prayer. Intercede. Pastor models a life of prayer

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Three Essential Ingredients for Growing Your Small Group Ministry

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  1. Three Essential Ingredients for Growing Your Small Group Ministry with Dr. Randy Wollf

  2. What Makes Small Group Ministries Grow? 3 Three three 3 • There are three key church factors 3 iii

  3. An Atmosphere of Prayer Intercede • Pastor models a life of prayer • Testimonies of answered prayer are shared • Prayer and fasting emphasized by leadership • Opportunities to pray with others • Messages on prayer

  4. Culture of Multiplication Equip • High value of multiplying the number of: • Growing new Christians • New leaders • Emphasis on helping new Christians grow • Clear equipping system • Continual encouragement to recruit more leaders

  5. Proactive Coaching Coach • Personal meetings between the coach and small group leader • Coach aware of leaders’ needs and praying for them • Group is visited by a coach

  6. Christian Leadership Pyramid Skill Biblical Truth...on his law, he meditates day and night.Psalm 1:2 TeamJesus’ example Community...love one another deeply... (1 Peter 1:22). CallingFor we are God’s workmanship... (Ephesians 2:10). CharacterBe imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children (Ephesians 5:1). A Growing Relationship with GodSo, then, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to live in him, rooted and built up in him... (Colossians 2:6-7).

  7. 2-DAY Coaching Skills Training 7

  8. COACHING helps facilitate breakthrough in the lives and development of risk-taking, Kingdom leaders. www.leaderbreakthru.com

  9. COACHING SKILLS COACHING PATHWAY 2-Day TRAINING www.leaderbreakthru.com

  10. GOOD COACHING Helps leaders solve problems And better cope when there is just too much.

  11. GOOD COACHING Helps re-evaluate plans and solutions. When things don’t go as planned. 11

  12. GOOD COACHING Helps you better understand where you are at! When we lose sight of where we are.

  13. The ART OF DEFLECTION The PROFESSIONAL HELPER Syndrome

  14. Some First Thoughts... • You do not get to clarity ALONE. • Coachingis about the PERSON. We coach the person… and work the problem. • Coaching is MINISTRY, not just problem solving. • Coaching is about ACTION, not just reflection. • Coaching bridges the gap; between INSIGHTS and NEW BEHAVIOUR… • Coaching is about DISCOVERY… what a person discovers they implement. . www.leaderbreakthru.com

  15. Coaching The purposes of a man’s heart are deep waters, but a man of understanding draws them out.--Proverbs 20:5 (NIV) Though good advice lies deep within the heart, a person with understanding will draw it out. --Proverbs 20:5 (NLIV) www.leaderbreakthru.com

  16. REAL-TIME COACHING • WHO ARE THEY? • WHY DID THEY COME TO THIS SESSION? (EXPECTATIONS)? • WHAT COACHING HAVE THEY DONE? www.leaderbreakthru.com

  17. TERMNOLOGICALCONFUSION www.leaderbreakthru.com

  18. Coaching CLARIFYING Coaching stands beside and draws insight out. Mentoring goes before and places insight within. www.leaderbreakthru.com

  19. Coaching Mentoring Discipling Teaching Relating the Terms Asking Client Agenda Helper Agenda Telling www.leaderbreakthru.com

  20. The C.O.A.C.H. Model™ CONNECTING with the leader. Determining the session OUTCOMES. Building AWARENESS of the issues and current reality. Determining the next steps and COURSE of action. Reviewing the HIGHLIGHTS and key insights of the session.  Coaching LEADERS Coaching the Development of Leaders www.leaderbreakthru.com

  21. CONNECTINGwith the leader. • Goal – Build rapport and trust • Example questions: • How have you been? • How are things going? At work? At home? At the church? • What insights have you had since we last met? • In what ways have you sensed the Holy Spirit speaking to you since our last meeting? • What progress did you make on the action steps you were going to take? Coaching LEADERS Coaching the Development of Leaders www.leaderbreakthru.com

  22. Determining the session OUTCOMES. • Goal – Find out what the person would like to discuss • Example questions: • What result would you like to take away from our meeting today? • What would you like to work on? • What would make today’s meeting successful/helpful for you? •  Coaching LEADERS Coaching the Development of Leaders www.leaderbreakthru.com

  23. Building AWARENESS of the issues • and current reality • Goal – To discover more about the outcome identified in the previous stage • Example questions: • Talk to me about what you’re presently thinking • What do you see as some of your major obstacles? • Let’s look at this from a different perspective: What else could be happening? Coaching LEADERS Coaching the Development of Leaders www.leaderbreakthru.com

  24. Determining the next steps and • COURSE of action • Goal – To capture insights and put them in actionable steps • Example questions: • What actions would you like to take moving forward? • What options do you think most address what you would like to achieve? • Which of these would you like to do? How? When? • On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being high), how confident are you that you can do this plan? Coaching LEADERS Coaching the Development of Leaders www.leaderbreakthru.com

  25. Reviewing the HIGHLIGHTS and • key insights of the session. • Goal – To give the person an opportunity to share lessons and goals • Example questions: • What would you like to remember from this time? • What parts of the discussion were particularly helpful? • What awareness do you have now that you did not have before? • What are your action steps? •  Coaching LEADERS Coaching the Development of Leaders www.leaderbreakthru.com

  26. FourCoaching Skills Listening Expanding Listening Expanding Focusing Empowering www.leaderbreakthru.com

  27. Core Skill LISTENING www.leaderbreakthru.com

  28. Three Levels of Listening LEVEL 1: YOU… You are listening but the pre-occupation is really you…not them (INTERNAL) LEVEL 2: THEM…You are listening, seeking to hear the issues behind the issues and understand (FOCUSED) LEVEL 3: YOU AND THEM …You have entered their world, and together you both are looking at the world and addressing the issues (GLOBAL) www.leaderbreakthru.com

  29. FIVE Ways to Listen Better (Empathetic Listening) Listen with your mind Listen with your body Listen with your words Listen with your intuition Listen with the Holy Spirit www.leaderbreakthru.com

  30. How Do You Know If You Have Listened Well? Leader feels listened to/understood You begin to understand Together you begin to surface the real issue www.leaderbreakthru.com

  31. FourCoaching Skills Listening Expanding Listening Expanding Focusing Empowering www.leaderbreakthru.com

  32. CORE SKILL: Expanding The Power is in the Questions! • Change begins the moment you ask a question. • The key to coaching is good QUESTIONS. • Questions can help coaches to both LISTEN and EXPAND awareness. www.leaderbreakthru.com

  33. Often Good Questions are about Asking the Obvious www.leaderbreakthru.com

  34. The Power is in the Questions! Questions that OPEN-Up You Say the question as an OPEN question, they initial Practicing Questions The Power is inthe Questions.Seven Types ofQuestions Open Emotive Statements Who, What, When Where Development Why Permission www.leaderbreakthru.com

  35. The Power is in the Questions! Questions that OPEN-Up You Say the question as an OPEN question, they initial Practicing Questions Open – What makes you think…? Emotive – How do you feel…? Testing Assumptions – I am hearing… what have you decided? Who, What, When Where Development – What does this say about how God is shaping you? Why – What could you have done? Permission – Can I…? www.leaderbreakthru.com

  36. The SWITCH FROM: God what do you want ME to say… TO: God what are YOU at work doing? How are you at work Lord? How can I serve your agenda? How can we, together, join you in that work? Alignment www.leaderbreakthru.com

  37. FourCoaching Skills Listening Expanding Listening Expanding Focusing Empowering p.6 www.leaderbreakthru.com

  38. GOOD COACHING Helps pinpoint the problems When the obvious is no longer obvious! 38

  39. GOOD COACHING Helps to reveal the issues surrounding the issue.

  40. AWARENESS IDENTIFYING the JUGULAR Coaching the Development of Leaders WHAT’S THE ISSUE? > Pinpointing the CORE issue > Issue behind the issue. > What’s holding them back? > What could be driving them, or controlling them? QUESTIONS + POSSIBLE FEEDBACK www.leaderbreakthru.com

  41. S.M.A.R.T Action STEPS 1. Specific 2. Measurable 3. Attainable 4. Relevant 5. Time-Framed www.leaderbreakthru.com

  42. CORE SKILL: FOCUSING “A goal properly set is halfway reached.” -- Abraham Lincoln p. 46 www.leaderbreakthru.com

  43. I will contact Bill, about the funding request, and will see if he will commit to the $500 gift, by Dec. 1st. S.M.A.R.T. Action Steps PATTERN: (WHO) will do (WHAT), (HOW MUCH) by (WHEN). p. 47 www.leaderbreakthru.com

  44. FourCoaching Skills Listening Expanding Listening Expanding Focusing Empowering www.leaderbreakthru.com

  45. EMPOWERMENT The Power of The ASSIST National Anthem Clip - Power of Encouragement www.leaderbreakthru.com

  46. EMPOWERMENT THREE WAYS to ENCOURAGE/EMPOWER: • Affirm Effort • Acknowledge Progress • Celebrate Success www.leaderbreakthru.com

  47. FourCoaching Skills Listening Expanding Listening Expanding Focusing Empowering www.leaderbreakthru.com

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