• The Pastor as Leader

    Action Items

    1. Watch the Recap video and three videos on The Pastor as Leader (ASAP)
    2. Consider the following actions:
      o Take the Clifton StrengthsFinder Assessment. Confirm your results - what surprised you - was there something new revealed (strengths and non-patterns)?
             • Clifton Strengths Assessment: https://store.gallup.com/c/enus/assessments
      o Carve out a regular weekly time in your calendar to grow in leadership understanding, investment, and awareness, by reading, listening to podcasts or watching videos.
      o List your typical weekly tasks. How you are using or not using your Strengths in those tasks? What non-patterns (weaknesses) are overplayed? Are any of your top 5 Strengths going untapped?
      o Invite a trusted leader, team member or mentor to meet with you to help you grow in leadership. Have them speak into what they see and hear from you - strengths, blind spots, tendencies, etc.
      o Identify which Strengths you need to bring around you that you do not possess already to develop a well-balanced team.
      o What is one step/action you can take around each of your top 5 Strengths that will help you live out and unleash the full potential of your Strengths?
      o What percentage of your time do you currently spend in these 4 areas? What does it need to look like to bring better balance?
             • Preaching (and preaching prep)
             • Sacraments (prep, celebration, fellowship)
             • Leadership (not administration and management – but intentional leadership)
             • Everything else (maintenance, admin, busy work)
      o Write out your own organizational chart – can be just names or areas of ministry or both – and then draw lines of direct report from each person to the one that supports them. Who is not supported? Where is it unclear? Who and how many people you are personally responsible for supporting?

    Recap Video on Leadership Teams

    https://vimeo.com/562833289/48e48c5dc8?share=copy
    God has gifted pastors and their flock with an abundance of gifts. The goal of this session is to have priests recognize the importance of self and team awareness, as it helps empower others to use their gifts and identify blind spots.

    Servant leaders raise up others, allowing people to use their gifts to bless and serve the Church. Leadership is about influencing others; it must be people-focused, so that people are empowered, rather than used. Ultimately, by empowering others, the priest includes others in the work of mission, and frees himself to focus on elements of his priestly ministry that the laity cannot replicate.

    Videos for this Session