\u201cLeadersmithing\u201d by Eve Poole is a skill-based book to tackle to ever increasing challenge of raising up and equipping new leaders.\u00a0 Her approach is practical, and flexible to meet the individual needs of the diversity among the leadership community.\u00a0 The book itself is divided into three sections: Theory, Practice, and the Appendixes that outline how to actually apply this material.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
This week\u2019s reading of Eve Poole\u2019s \u201cLeadersmithing\u201d catapulted me back to my student teaching internship.\u00a0 I had the opportunity to participate in one of the final years of a pilot project, that was a joint effort between the state of Washington, a local school district, and Seattle Pacific University.\u00a0 It was a Mastery-based learning program for both perspective teacher of Special Education, and the students they did their practicum with.\u00a0 For me and my classmates, we often questioned and attempted to rebel against the seemingly rigid structure of our training.\u00a0 We were the only teaching students from the University that were required to maintain the same school schedule as the districts we worked, instead of the University schedule.\u00a0 This was particularly, challenging when we are having to make up snow days well into June, while our classmates were off the end of May.\u00a0 Today some forty plus years later, I can say that I am grateful for very minute.\u00a0 There were clear goals and objectives that had to be met every week.\u00a0 They were not just a test demonstrating I had acquired the information, but it required practicing the skill to a mastery level eighty percent or higher.\u00a0 This was not just once but five times in a row.\u00a0 At the time it seemed excessive and tedious.\u00a0 My first-year teaching when I was stretched far beyond my limits, and what would be expected of most first-year teachers, I realized that I had been given a great gift.\u00a0 I had a foundation of skills that were apart of my muscle memory.\u00a0 It allowed me to respond to the emotional and administrative challenges from a place of calm decisiveness that exceed my level of experience.\u00a0 \u00a0I am truly grateful.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was particularly draw to what Poole referred to as \u201cCritical Incidents,\u201d and the mastery of those skills under a \u201cMaster,\u201d in terms of pastoral leadership within my denomination.\u00a0 As a movement there has not been a requirement for seminary training as such, which has its pluses and minuses, there seems to have been decisions that have been made to fill slots without adequate equipping.\u00a0 For example, there has been a push to place younger leaders as lead pastors.\u00a0 There are a number of situations that more seasoned servants have been passed over for appointments because they are not in the preferred age range.\u00a0 On the other side there are a number of older pastors that are clinging to their pulpits that have not been invested in their leaders, as a Master would their apprentice.\u00a0 \u00a0Although, I am convinced that these younger leaders are called, and had acquired experience in serving in a congregation they are now struggling under the lack of certain skills.\u00a0 There is also an observation that a number of the younger leaders are so anxious to get into the work that they have not been willing submit to the restrictiveness of an \u201cApprenticeship\u201d relationship.\u00a0 The conversations have sprung up around these situations revealing the need for \u201cMasters\u201d investment in the new leaders.\u00a0 The understanding of young leaders that God is in the waiting and training, much like Moses\u2019s time in the desert. There is also a need for clear definitions around \u201cCritical Incidents\u201d and what constitutes mastery so that it is in fact muscle memory. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I was also intrigued by the emphasis on the need for character development.\u00a0 As I reflected on this it brought me back to some of our reading from Friedman, and others.\u00a0 I will need to return to this topic as it relates to my NPO and the nature of leadership.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This book prompted a number of questions around the development of my NPO that I desire to come back while moving forward in this process:<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are the biblical definitions of \u201cBeliever\u201d and \u201cDisciple\u201d? How do they differ in theory and practice?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What are the key competencies of a discipline?\u00a0 How might those competencies be measured?\u00a0 What factors would indicate maturity?\u00a0 Growth? And continuous growth?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What is key thinking, believing, feeling, and behaving practices of leadership that would develop these competencies?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If a pastor had a core of such disciples, how would that impact the thinking, believing, feeling, and behaviors of the leadership and the others who attend that particular fellowship?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What specific practices, in any particular fellowship, are developing these competencies?\u00a0 How is the development of these practices being measured?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 What Scriptural guidelines are available to identify and access these competencies?\u00a0 If any?<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 How does the Scripture differentiate between disciple and believer?\u00a0 How does the Scripture differentiate between disciple and leadership?<\/p>\n
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