Ministry Leadership Development Workshop
Ministry Leadership Development Workshop
Kayon Cameron | 2021
Abstract
A non-profit, faith-based organization is the same as a for-profit corporation contingent on its employees’ and volunteers’ well-being to achieve the organization’s overall goal. Fortune 500 companies understand the importance of investing in their personnel’s leadership development. Unfortunately, some non-profit, faith-based organizations do not see the practical value of investing in their personnel’s leadership development. Leadership development is critical for the organization to align its personnel with its vision and create effective teams to see all tasks done thoroughly from start to finish. Leadership development is a critical resource proven to align all personnel within an organization to collectively share resources to collectively achieve the organization’s goals. Church leaders care for their congregants’ spiritual well-being but neglect the importance of investing in their employees and volunteers. The Ministry Leadership Development Workshop is a resource that Christian faith-based organizations can use to invest in their personnel’s leadership development.
The Ministry Leadership Development Workshop will challenge the employee and volunteer participants of a Christian faith-based organization about what constitutes an effective leader, effective communicator, and an effective team. The workshop focuses on self-development for the participants to realize their strengths and weaknesses in these areas of study while understanding that God has provided tools and resources through his word on becoming an effective leader, communicator, and team builder. The participants will understand how they view their identity impacts their effectiveness as a leader because they will project unto their team how they view their strengths and weaknesses. The participants will learn their strengths and weaknesses in communication, and to become effective communicators, they must learn to be others-focused rather than self-focused when communicating.
Lastly, the participants will learn the importance of building relationships between themselves and their team, organization, and the individuals within their team through humility, love, and trust. The workshop results proved that it is effective in challenging the participants’ views of the truth about leadership, areas they can improve on communication, and the importance of a team having a relationship with each other. Upon completing the Ministry Leadership Development Workshop, the organization can better relate to the participant and emphasize their evaluability to the organization to achieve its overall goal.