{"id":4273,"date":"2019-12-16T12:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T02:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/?p=4273"},"modified":"2019-12-16T12:12:32","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T02:12:32","slug":"leading-with-an-emphasis-on-developing-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.resourcezone.com.au\/?p=4273","title":{"rendered":"Leading With an Emphasis on Developing People"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I\u2019m always interested in discussing with my colleges in the States the differences between Australian and USA Churches. One of strong differences that has always come up is the fact that many of those who lead ministries in the USA recognise the importance of leading with a developmental bias. I find this is a rare trait in Australian Churches.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is not only a need, but it is also biblical. Developing leaders formed the crux of Jesus\u2019 ministry as he prepared the disciples for the biggest task of history. God is in the business of developing leaders and he continues the process throughout their entire lifetimes. People are a ministries most important resource.\u00a0 Yet most ministries use people; they do not develop them.<\/strong>\u00a0 They do not lead with a developmental bias.\u00a0 They lead from a task bias<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The following is an adapted article by Dr. J. Robert Clinton, author of the best selling book \u2018 “the Making of a Leader”\u00a0 and Senior professor of leadership at the School of Intercultural Studies of Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. \u00a0 <\/span><\/em>
\nI first noticed this leadership\u00a0 problem years ago when I began preparing to go out as a missionary. My idealistic perception of missions was shattered as I found out that, though many were called, few actually stayed.\u00a0 A lot of missionaries who had gone through the process of raising support, moving to the field, and going through language study, actually left the field prematurely.\u00a0 Some after a very short period of time.\u00a0 I became conscious that mission organisations did not often meet the needs of their people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Later, my study of para-church ministries helped me to see that these ministries usually were started by people who had a burden for some work of God.\u00a0 The ministry grew around that vision.\u00a0 Most of these ministries were high task-oriented.\u00a0 They recruited people to the task.\u00a0 The task was all important.\u00a0 But I was beginning to form intuitively the notion that ministries must develop their people or they will not effectively carry out their tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Defining the Concept<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

A developmentally aware ministry can be defined as one which balances concern for task leadership, relational leadership, and inspirational leadership so as to accomplish its basic purpose for being and which, at the same time, develops its people so that they move toward their inherent leadership potential of being and doing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Developmentally Alive Organisations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Leaders who influence a ministry toward developmental awareness lead with a developmental bias.\u00a0I have identified the following types of ministry which have a strong commitment to develop people:<\/span><\/p>\n