Strategic Skills for Senior Leaders

Strategy Mapping

Duration: 1-2 days

Strategy Mapping is a technique for helping organizations clearly define - and communicate - the causal links among different components of their strategy. It involves reducing complex strategies to a core set of key outcomes and drivers that are graphically represented to show how they causally relate one to another.

A Strategy Map is used to help an organization:

• Align the organization leaders around a single interpretation of the strategy
• Communicate the strategy to staff Identify leading indicators of strategic success
• Validate and test assumptions about what core capabilities that drive key results
• Structure a core set of strategic performance metrics

Ministry Action Planning

Duration: 1 day with 3 follow-up core group sessions

In business we say, "Your system is perfectly designed to produce the results you are getting." The same holds true for your church: "Your discipleship programme is perfectly designed to produce the kind of people you have sitting there."

In this training conference you’ll learn the principles, practices, and components of a ministry "perfectly designed" to produce changed lives, families, churches, and communities - and not just short term excitement, but real long term change. You’ll meet and connect with other leaders like you to interact and share.

You will leave with a specific, written plan designed with your church in mind. You will learn powerful keys to long term success, like:

• How to build a strategy of Create, Capture, and Sustain Momentum when launching a ministry in the church or marketplace
• Learn the Four Pillars of building an effective ministry
• How to avoid wasting time and effort because of choosing the wrong strategy
• How to connect everything you do to an inspirational vision
• How to get people volunteer to lead
• How to mobilize the people you already have

This is ideal for planning a ministry for specific congregational group such as Men, Women or Youth.

How to Select Exceptional Leaders with CHALLY

Duration: 1 day

Selecting the right person for the job is crucial, especially when it comes to ministry positions. Chally is an assessment tool that will provide you specific skill and behaviour information that will help you make an informed decision as to whether an individual is suited for a position.

The Chally assessment is based on extensive and ongoing actuarial research. We have researched and developed position specific profiles that measure the actual skills needed to succeed. It may be useful to know a candidate’s energy level, for example, but it is critical to know that the candidate can successfully resolve objections, or that a leader is also a good team player. Chally will help you in making better decisions.

Using Balanced Scorecard for Non-profits and Churches

(1 day with 6 follow-up monthly sessions)

A new approach to strategic management was developed by Drs. Robert Kaplan (Harvard Business School) and David Norton. They named this system the ‘Balanced Scorecard’. Recognizing some of the weaknesses of previous management approaches, the balanced scorecard approach provides a clear prescription as to what organizations should measure in order to ‘balance’ the overall perspective. Many ministries are employing this method of management, one of which is Chuck Colson’s prison ministry.

Balanced Scorecard is a management system (not only a measurement system) that enables organizations to clarify their vision and strategy and translate them into action. It provides feedback around both the internal processes and external outcomes in order to continuously improve strategic performance and results. When fully deployed, the balanced scorecard transforms strategic planning from an academic exercise into the nerve center of an enterprise.

Balance scorecard helps an organization to:

• Live up to its Vision and Mission
• Encourage entrepreneurship
• Catch problems before its too late
• Stay on target to meet its Goals
• Encourage transparency and growth
• Make a strong team commitment to success