Define Leadership Behavior and Perspective
Develop Your Leadership Insight through Coaching
Pastoral leaders often tell us how deeply they long for someone to talk with that understood the challenges they face and had the empathy and insight to ask the deep questions with no other agenda than clarity, growth and insight. The coaches at Leadership Praxis™ are pastoral leaders with years of experience leading congregations through the ups and downs of ministry. Coaching isn't new it started with the Paul and is expressed in an intentional and facilitated conversation. It encourages rigor in the way leaders organize thinking, visioning, planning and expectations. Coaching challenges the limits of competence and learning horizons.
Leadership Praxis™ coaching process utilizes evidence based coaching. Evidence based coaching links theories and research with coaching best-practice. Leadership Praxis™ employs coaches certified in coaching disciplines and the Birkman Method® – a multi-dimensional assessment integrating behavioral, motivational, and occupational data. The Birkman Method® is empirically created in leadership environments for leadership environments offered on a web-based platform for anytime and anywhere access, worldwide.
Identify Unseen Potential
Today’s rapidly changing social environment is placing new demands on congregational and mission leaders every day. As congregations and Christian organizations strive to excel in being a living demonstration of the basileia of God they need spiritually empowered leaders who can not only develop strategy and nurture growth, but also demonstrate the character and spiritual awareness needed motivate and inspire staff. As the need for a credible public witness of faith increases the need to nurture the best people within faith based organizations becomes even more acute.
The Birkman Method® assesses individual potential, maximizes your congregation's understanding of its staff and leadership motivations and helps transform congregational cultures toward a more organic approach to leadership development. The Birkman Method creates a four-dimensional portrait of individuals and team members by outlining their interests and goals, operating styles, motivational needs and behavior under stress, all of which are factors that impact personal and congregational effectiveness in mission.
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Enhance the your Leadership Skills
Leadership in every congregation is a critical component of success. With ever increasing demands for authentic and relevant expressions of faith and service leaders must exercise new a new depth of capacity; a capacity in living an authentic and spiritually empowered life. One of the first steps in enhancing leadership capacity is to understand the impact of one’s behaviors on others. The Birkman 360° is a tool that provides critical behavioral feedback. It focuses on nine important leadership competencies that impact people around the leader work, build relationships, and engage in ministry.
These competencies relate to:
- Strategic thinking and long-term planning for key organizational outcomes.
- Engaging others efforts in support of goals and outcomes — communicating the vision, building commitment, and assigning responsibility.
- Decision making, coaching others, and effective resource management.
- Understanding the organization, your target audience, congregational culture and ministry environment.
- Drive to pursue personal and professional development.
Utilize the Birkman 360° as one part of your organization’s toolkit for developing highly competent leadership who lead your team to a new level.