02.18.10
The Summit, Greg Bowman and Coaching Structures
Ben Reed is a guest blogger here at the Lifeway Small Groups blog. He regularly blogs for Life and Theology. You can also find him on Twitter HERE.
The Summit started out with a series of questions asked to each of the 9 guys who presented (10 experts were there, but Rick Howerton moderated).
Up first, Greg Bowman. Here's the question he had:
Can you point us to some coaching structures that are working?
There are 3 things to making a coaching system work:
- Understand very clearly what you want to accomplish
- Are you wanting to develop a system that helps with communication? Or one that develops leaders?
- Execute what you want ruthlessly
- Most churches give up because it's the hardest work in the church, and they don't execute the strategy well enough
- Study other churches, and find a model that seems like it would work in your context, and adapt it for your people.
- Whether you pay your coaches, have individual coaches, or a team approach, adapt it to your context.
Coaching systems work not when coaches are asked to be a middle manager, but when they are asked to be an encourager, a shepherd, and a listening ear.
What system do you use?
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