Coaching Adolescents

Coaching Adolescents – Developing Good Followers Today to Build Effective Servant Leaders Tomorrow

Robin N. Beauregard | 2016

Abstract

Leadership is a hot topic. There are books, articles, and seminars geared toward effective leadership, but unfortunately, there is far less on effective followership. Leaders must be built, and to be a truly effective leader a person has to first be a mature follower. Successful leaders have a servant heart, so in order to build future Servant Leaders, we must start with our young people. Teaching adolescents how to build their values and beliefs on a Biblical foundation will prepare them by building the followership skills necessary to develop into leadership skills later in life. This workbook, written for adolescents to work through with an adult coach, presents seven lessons, each containing a core trait and three related competencies. Adolescents will learn not only follower skills, but how to base everything they do on God’s Word. Further thought and discussion is provided through powerful journal questions and relevant homework and activities. Adolescents are developmentally at a point where cognitively and emotionally they are ready to establish their character traits, values, and goals. This workbook will help them base their development on God’s Word in a fun, interactive, but serious way, and provides coaches with relevant and thought-provoking materials to share with adolescents. Adolescents are inundated by worldly influences, so teaching them Biblical character traits, the importance of putting God first in their lives, effective communication skills, dealing with diversity, developing a future-oriented viewpoint, making positive decisions, and doing what’s right no matter what others are doing will prepare them for life, and whatever leadership or follower role God calls them for.