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Christian Coaching
Brenda Chand, Professor
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Chapter 2 Leadership One - To - One
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Leadership is Action, Not Position
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Leadership Characteristic

• They all have guiding purpose and overarching
  vision
• Leaders have a clear idea of what they want to
  do - personally and professionally

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According to Warren Bennis - Managing People is
Like Herding Cats.

• Leaders have the strength to persist in the
  face of setbacks, even failures.
• They know where they are going and why.

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Leaders have integrity Their word counts! They
can be trusted to do what they say they will
do They decide in their minds whats right and
thats how they act consistently. They rarely
talk about their morals and standards of
conduct They live what they stand for and
everyone sees it.
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Leaders without integrity Are tolerated Are
sometimes even appreciated for their
contributions and abilities to get things
done. Are never trusted Never genuinely
respected Dont have much credibility
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As long as you have credibility you have
leadership - Professional football coach Don
Shula
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To me, credibility is your people believing that
what you say is something that they can hang
their hat on something they can immediately
believe and respect. - Professional football
coach Don Shula
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Other marks of leadership

• Not puffed up
• Not impressed with their own greatness
• Commitment
• Focus
• Ability to get things done

• Competence
• Respect
• Trust
• Courage
• Humility

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Coaching is the key element in producing good
leaders. To be a good leader you must be a good
coach. And to be a good coach you must recognize
that coaching is a significant form or leadership.
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• Good leaders are not mass-produced, turned out by
  reading books or going to conferences
• Good leaders
• Learned how to think
• How to see situations clearly
• How to be creative even as they are flexible

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• Ultimate success as leader marked by
• Ability to produce new leaders
• Effective performance of these leaders when
  theyre on their own

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How are such leaders produced?

• Coaching is the key element
• To be a good leader you must be a good coach
• To be a good coach you must recognize that
  coaching is a significant and increasingly
  emerging form of leadership and leadership
  training.

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Coaching Is About Leadership

• Coach Jethro
• Train them carefully
• He observed Moses performance
• Provided some options
• Helped Moses clear some of the obstacles

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• Coaching is
• A form of servant leadership
• Helps people accomplish their goals
• Type of leadership that involves encouraging or
  motivating people upward to achieve their
  potential and goals

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• Jesus used coaching with his disciples
• Showed them the way to go
• Observed their progress
• Corrected their misunderstandings
• Gently encouraged them to go out on their own

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• Like any good coach he
• Gave them feedback
• Reevaluated their performances
• Redirected them when they needed correction

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• Jesus had vision and purpose
• Jesus wasnt a dominator
• Jesus wasnt trying to build team-consensus
• Jesus had an incredible awareness of each
  disciples individual
• Personality
• Potential for impact
• Points of failure

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• Jesus maximized their strengths
• Jesus gave encouragement
• Jesus exposed them to different experiences
• Jesus modified his guidance as they matured
• Jesus coached each of them in slightly different
  ways being sensitive to what made each of them
  unique.

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• Leadership and Coaching are About Relationships
• The greatest and most lasting changes come when
  involved with others in relationships
• to be human is to be connected to others

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Coaching is the most important servant leadership
element in helping people accomplish their
goals - Ken Blanchard, Bill Hybels, and Phil
Hodges
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Coaching is a special kind of relationship It is
a partnership with a purpose.
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Coaching is one of the clearest forms of servant
leadership The coach seeks to understand and
assist the person being served.
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If you want to be a good leader, learn to be a
good coach. If you want to be a good coach, learn
to be a servant leader who understands
relationships
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According to Peter Drucker, management is The
science of discovering human strengths to counter
human weaknesses and fitting them into a
productive framework.
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The megachurch has been described as the most
important social phenomenon in American society
in the last thirty years It is described as
powerful because it can pull people together,
give them opportunity to serve, and connect them
in community.
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Christians commit their lives to Christ as
individuals. But Christians serve in and through
the community.
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Growth happens when churches are healthy and
helping others to be the same.
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Effective leadership is coaching The most
effective Christian leaders must be effective
coaches.
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Coaching doesnt work within the corporate world
when people are too busy, too intent on producing
results, too driven, or too self-focused to guide
another person to reach his or her potential.
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Leadership and Coaching Are About Change
In the face of change, the competent are helpless.
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The safest reaction is to ignore change, look
aside and pretend that it does not exist.

• Some changes we
• Watch
• Tolerate

• Embrace
• Resist

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• Be swept along with change until we are forced
  to adapt
• Learn how to work with change innovatively
• Make change happen

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Coaching is destined to be the leadership
approach of the twenty-first century.