In this fast-pasted, complex church world, pastors need a “safe harbor” where they can confidentially explore their own thoughts about workplace issues. Church leadership involves unique demands, and pastors are often caught in the middle of conflicting expectations without anyone to whom they can turn to in a trusting, confidential relationship.
Coaches come along side pastors to help them understand more fully the complexities of church leadership and to appreciate the demands that change places on the leader and the congregation.
TAG Executive Coaching has been designed to help pastors navigate the often troubled waters of church life.
- Strengths and challenges are identified for each pastor.
- A coaching contract is devised between the coach and pastor detailing the goals of the coaching relationship.
- with the coach.
- The behaviors and goals to be established.
- you are now;
- you want to go;
- you want to accomplish;
- you are to bring about change;
- as to progress.
Executive coaching involves several important elements. Each of these areas requires a different assessment tool. What is important is to obtain a useful profile from which an individualized program can be constructed to guide the coaching process:
Accurate assessment is a critical first step. Areas of assessment include:
- Emotional makeup;
- Temperament makeup;
- Leadership capabilities and challenges.
Seminaries have tended not to be good at helping pastors understand the multiple ways in which organizational life unfolds within a church context, and the various pitfalls that await the uninitiated. The pathway to church leadership is dangerous and difficult.
75% of solving a problem is first framing the problem correctly. If a problem is understood incorrectly, solutions applied will not only not solve the problem, the solutions themselves will become problems.
Once the problem is correctly understood, then strategies for action can be constructed. This is the fun part, developing strategies to deal with a rightly-understood problem. Often the strategy is mundane (You need to go to her and confront her on this issue) to the complex (The culture will not support such an idea unless a great deal of ground work and buy-in is first established).
to use with your staff and leadership. We have found that there are several critical skills that must be mastered in order to be an effective leader.
- Building rapport quickly and effectively.
- Developing a slant on the problem that provides a different avenue of approach.
- Understanding how the Red Zone and Blue Zone work.
*If you are a pastor and would like to sign up for a free 30-minute coaching session, (no commitment necessary), go to our Contact TAG page, fill in the requested information and in the Message area state, FREE COACHING SESSION. We'll contact you.
