Coaching the Coaches
At Leadership Pathway we coach the coaches.
We coach the supervisors of the residents and interns who are on your team. We do this because the success that your organization will have in leadership development will only be as strong as the leaders you have who are doing the coaching and the one-on-one meetings.
There’s a ridiculous scene from the movie, Austin Powers (which the corporate office does not recommend nor condone), where a man stands a long way away from a pavement roller yelling, “Stop” from afar, yet it eventually still runs him over.
The scene is painstakingly long, and therein lies the joke. Is anyone on your team consistently and systematically trying to develop the newest, youngest, leader who potentially could help lead your church into the future? I’ve often used this scene as a metaphor for the topic of launching a church residency. The question of who’s the next you? is a slow-moving roller that really does not demand your attention right now. There are dozens of more pressing issues on your plate than thinking about who you’ll hire next on your team.
We have to start doing this now.
Your team needs coached on how…
This issue moves much faster after the staff leader has left your office having handed in their letter of resignation.
This is the very reason we began Leadership Pathway some six years ago, now. We know you don’t have time to do this on your own. We are designed to help you do it and to coach your team.
We have a vision for 1,000 churches to launch a residency. In the past few weeks, we’ve launched residency programs in churches that are…
a sizable church in a small town where people struggle to move in from the outside
a megachurch in a large city that has tried to use head hunters only to be disappointed
church plant that desire to multiply beyond themselves through other planters in Atlanta and in the Bay Area
a church on the east coast starting their fourth residency
There are many fast fixes to your staffing issues, but the best fix is a long game of an ecosystem feeding itself. The first resident is the hardest one to launch. That’s why we do what we do.
So, take a lesson from Austin Powers and address the slow killer of residency in your local church. Book a call now. Carve out one hour to begin this conversation and avoid the slow killer that is coming for you.