(clinic by Ken Guenther, Director of SEND U for Missio Nexus Personnel Conference)

Missions are led by reluctant leaders

• Warren Janzen's article in EMQ on reluctant leaders

Start with the outcome we seek to accomplish

• SEND leadership profile
  • Team leader profile
  • Area Director profile

Get a realistic picture of where our leaders are at

• Impact Field Leader survey
• Impact Field Leader resources
  • Ken Harder's blog > http://impactfieldleader.wordpress.com/
  • 2009 Summary report > the survey in which SEND participated
  • Stewardship of field leaders diagram
  • Series of blog articles about onboarding

Recognize that we have to unlearn as well as learn as we transition into leadership

• Overview of The Leadership Pipeline by Charanm, Drotter and Noel - See excerpt
• TheLeadership Pipeline in SEND > adapting the 6 passages to fit SEND International's leadership structure

Holistic, individualized, just-in-time, ongoing … and not too expensive

• Online course for team leaders
  • uses A Vision of the Possible: Pioneer Church Planting in Teamsby Daniel Sinclair. Best book on leading mission teams. PDF version available for download
  • equips team leaders to develop an outcome-based job description
• New Leadership Couples' Orientation

• Coaching resources
  • coaching page on SEND U wiki
  • Creative Results Management > the premier training for cross-cultural mission leaders
• rekindlemeetings - Quarterly meetings of supervisor with field leaders for purposes of accountability and encouragement
• For helping team leaders design IDP (based on the SEND Team Leader Training Curriculum)
• SEND U wiki resources for leadership development

• SEND Team Leader Training Curriculum
• Becoming an Effective Leader of a Team (BELT) regional conferences
• Training at Directors' Council on story-telling

• New Leadership Couples' Orientation (as needed)
• Online course for team leaders (annual)
• Leadership and Wives' retreats (once every 4-5 years)
• Directors' Council (each year)
• Becoming an Effective Leader of a Team (BELT) regional conferences

Are our leaders less reluctant and more confident and capable?

• some evaluation tools used by SEND
• more needed