MD Boot Camp, April 28-29, Skopje, Northern Macedonia

1. Review our SEND U onboarding process for new ADs/MDs. Please read through this process, and we will discuss how it applies to you at the boot camp.
2. Do a DiSC self-assessment called Everything DiSC Work of Leaders. It focuses on leadership for a group. It will help you learn your leadership style and your top three leadership priorities (vision, alignment, and execution), and how your personality profile impacts these three. Ken has sent you a link to this assessment.
3. Do a self-assessment based on the AD profile. The AD/MD profile is a one-page description of the skills and character traits of an ideal area/ministry director in SEND International. None of the field leaders match this description perfectly. It is not a description of the qualifications needed to become an AD but rather a description of the areas we want to develop. This profile gives both you some targets for growth and development.

Print out your self-assessments and bring them with you as well as any questions you might have to the first session.

Thursday, April 28

Friday, April 29

Leadership Resources on the wiki

• About Everything DiSC assessments - Work of Leaders
• The book, The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead that was the basis of the DiSC assessment.
• SEND Area Leader Profile Self-Assessment in 8x11 format and in A4 format
• SEND AD / MD Profile diagram and the SEND Team Leader Profile diagram
• Wiki page on AD Profiles

• Handout
• Eurasia Member Care definition
• Eurasia Member Care and Development project
• Going Global: Member Care Model

• Handout
• Crucial Conversations.ppt
• The book, Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition
• Crucial conversation scenarios
• Crucial conversations grid review
• Crucial conversations presenter notes

• Handout on Leading Effective Meetings
• Five Tips for Better Meetings.pdf
• Types of meetings > Patrick Lencioni

• GPS Planning
• Strategic Planning PPT

• Meditation on Philippians 4

• Handout
• Link to AD Boot Camp Planner

• ​​​​​Twassistant.com > a cost-effective way to find a part-time virtual administrative assistant
• Using a virtual assistant > by Jeff Widman. Very practical.
• Four types of assistants
• Virtual Freedom: How to Work with Virtual Staff to buy more time, become more productive and build your dream business by Chris Ducker.

• See Managing your workload section on Personal Well-Being of the Leader wiki page, which includes information about managing email and using virtual assistants.
• Reflect and Refocus > a quarterly review process to help you make sure you keep your focus on the most important things.
• Helps for Day Alone with God – used in MOP
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity > a book by David Allen that has helped many people in personal productivity. See review here. GTD Work Flow
• Email:
  • Webinar on Overcoming Death by Email with Ted Esler (free for SEND members)
  • Getting Email under Control > a short article by David Allen.
• In Search of Balance: Keys to A Stable Life by Richard Swenson.
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport. Review by Ken on the SEND U blog.

• Microsoft Teams > free with SEND's M365. Chat, online meetings, integrated with Planner and other Microsoft Office products. A great way to work collaboratively online.
• Microsoft To Do > free web-based to-do list that works well with Planner
• Microsoft Planner > free with SEND's M365. Task management for teams. Makes it easy to assign tasks and track completion by various team members.
• OneNote > Free with SEND's Microsoft 365. Great for storing and quickly retrieving meeting notes, projects, and web articles.
• Calendly > Calendly helps you schedule one-on-one meetings without the back-and-forth emails. It automatically figures out time zone differences for you. The free version is very adequate. It also has a scheduling poll tool for group meetings, giving each participant a chance to select options that work for them.
• TimeandDate.com's International Meeting Planner > Figure out what time a future meeting will be in various time zones.

• Handout
• It's OK to be the Boss > by Bruce Tulgan. This book was the basis of the training at Directors' Council in 2014.
• How Many Direct Reports Should You Have? How many direct reports should a supervisor have? Some say the magic number is “7”. This article says that the number depends on some organizational cultural factors such as the complexity of the work, the employee skills and experience, the acceptable error rate, the managerial experience of the supervisor, the amount of change in the environment, and the degree that you use technology to oversee projects.
• Building Leaders: Blueprints for Developing Leadership at Every Level of Your Church by Aubrey Malphurs and Will Mancini

• Metrics and Evaluation PPT
• Dashboard Template
• 2019 Director Evaluation

• Onboarding for field leaders on the SEND U SharePoint site
• Quarterly Rekindle meetings. MDs should do these Rekindle meetings with team leaders on a quarterly basis.
• Transitioning to a new role wiki page
• The Leadership Pipeline as applied to SEND International (developed by Ken Guenther)
• SEND Team Leader Growth Plan Guide > resources for developing your IGP in the growth areas identified by the SEND team leader profile
• Training Opportunities for Mission Leaders wiki page

AD/MD Boot Camp evaluation