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Skill Training: The Best Way to Connect a New Leader with a Coach
You’ve recruited coaches. You’ve made sure you’ve recruited only the right people to be coaches. And you’ve even provided some basic training and encouragement for the new coaches you’ve recruited. Now, the question is, “What is the best way to connect a new leader with a coach?” Note: This assumes you are already aware of…
Read MoreTop 10 Simple Skill Trainings for New Small Group Hosts
*Important Note: Although some small group models emphasize the roles of leader (the person who leads the group) and host (the person who opens their home for the group meeting), that is NOT what is meant here. In this case “host” refers to someone who simply responds to our invitation to invite a few friends…
Read MoreSkill Training: How to Invite a Few Friends to Join You for the Study
Do you have a couple friends you’d like to do the study with? It’s easy to get started and easy to make it happen. Here are a few tips to help you get off to a great start! 5 tips to help you get started: First, make a short list of who you’d like to…
Read MoreSkill Training: 7 Things You Need to Do TO and FOR Your Small Group Leaders
Can I let you in on a little corner of reality? Small group leaders are no different than the rest of us. A few of them (maybe 5 to 10%) are self-starters and have the internal wiring to take the right steps to grow on their own. The other 90-95% of all small group leaders…
Read MoreSkill Training: How to Use a “Test Drive” to Screen for Ideal Coaches
I’m very particular about the kind of men and women I want on my coaching team. If they don’t have the 6 characteristics I’m looking for, I don’t want them on the team. And you shouldn’t either. We should all have the opinion that anything other than the right kind of men and women will…
Read MoreSkill Training: How to Recruit a Potential Small Group Coach
Yesterday I wrote about how to identify a potential small group coach. Today I want to point out the four steps that I use to invite them to take a test-drive. Pay close attention to the sequence of the steps and the language I use. You’ll want to develop your own language, but the closer…
Read MoreSkill Training: How to Identify a Potential Small Group Coach
I’m frequently asked how to find potential small group coaches. In fact, it’s probably one of my most frequently asked questions. I’m asked about how to find coaches all the time. Probably most often right after I’ve spoken or written about the fact that without coaching in place it will be next to impossible to…
Read MoreSkill Training: How Transparent Should I Be as a Group Leader?
Question: How transparent should you be as a small group leader? Should you share your struggles with the group? Or should you seek to be an example to your group? These good questions, don’t you think? They are part of the internal debate that every leader has. In my post, 8 Habits of Life-Changing Small…
Read MoreSkill Training: Equip Your Coaches to Develop and Disciple Leaders
A core understanding in my philosophy of small group ministry is that whatever you want to happen at the member level, will have to happen to the leader first. Once you acknowledge that basic understanding, it automatically follows that you now know most of what the coaches in your system need to do. This becomes their…
Read MoreSkill Training: 5 Simple Steps to Starting a New Group
You’ve been thinking about starting a new small group. Whether you’re a veteran small group leader or this is your very first group, there are a few things to keep in mind. What you do first determines so much about how things end up. Want to get your new group off to a great start? Here…
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