Leadership Development Principles

These leadership principles are also reasons a 360 Leadership Review is so helpful.

Leadership Development is a Key Ministry Strategy. Leadership development is a critical issue and a key to ministry effectiveness.

Leadership Excellence is a Definable Set of Standards. For development to take place there needs to be a clear understanding of what is required for success. These standards are guideposts for the leader’s journey.

People Are Responsible for Their Own Development. Leaders must accept the responsibility for seeking feedback and committing to ongoing improvement. This doesn't mean individuals are in this alone.

Leaders Are Accountable for Developing Leaders. The ministry strategies are owned by the leaders. Likewise, the plans for developing a leadership pipeline and the resulting outcomes are key measures of managerial success.

Leaders Are Developed Primarily on the Job. The complexities and variability of real-world challenges cannot be truly experienced in a classroom or at a seminar. Growth is the result of experience and assimilation.

Jesus Calls Leaders to be Good Stewards of Talent. Since people are primarily developed on the job, one area can not provide the totality of experiences that individuals may need. Your church or organization as a whole is capable of providing the wide diversity of developmental opportunities.

Human Resources Support is Vital to the Success of Leadership Development. With the goal being ministry success on a missoin-wide if not kingdom-wide basis, people management systems have to be aligned and integrated with the ministry goals in order to achieve maximum leverage.

Use our 360 Leadership Review to find out how your leadership measures up.