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Leadership Training

It has been a challenge to describe the leadership training being given by Caleb Ministries.

If we were to simply give an outline of the materials covered in the curriculum, there may seem to be little that is different by comparison with other available Leadership Training courses. The question then remains to be answered “What is unique about this course?”

There are a number of things in the presentation of the course that cumulatively make it unique. Four very significant aspects are:

1. The amount of time the trainee is actually ‘doing’ and ‘practising’ the material rather than passively ‘listening’ to lectures. In reality each of the carefully trained instructors are motivated by this phrase; ‘They will not remember so much what we say, but they will remember what they do’.
2. Trainees are asked to practice a new skill only after the instructor has modeled it.
3. While the instructors will introduce new material, they are committed wherever possible to help the class discover the answers for themselves by sharing their combined knowledge in a very interactive climate.
4. There is a carefully planned structure to the progression of the training that follows a Biblical emphasis. Firstly, to help the trainees recognise their own worth and gifting in God’s eyes as the essential reality for them. This is followed by developing an understanding of Gods’ concern for them to be loving and caring for other people. With these two in their rightful place we then focus on the situations that, as leaders, they need to address. Guiding discussions and input from the trainees and giving the balance of new content is what necessitates the specialised training given to all the instructors.

What is meant by 'training'?

• A lot of what is advertised as training, in reality, is given in a teaching mode, rather than a training mode. By this we are saying that “Teaching”, while very significant, tends to focus on the delivery of prescribed content in a lecture form. But ‘Training’ in our context is focused on developing skills and doing it in such a practised way that the trainees will remember the principles. The participants will remember far more because they have had opportunity to actually practice the new skill or apply the new insight rather that only having a record of it in a handbook.
• Further, the principles are taught in such a way that the trainee can readily make them transferable to his/her colleagues or team members. However, because of the highly interactive nature of the course and the unique composite of gifting and talents in each course, it has not been possible to stereotype the course. It is not possibly to effectively audio or video tape the course or simply give a trainers manual.
• Given the above background, another helpful way to show the differences between this training course and the many others out in the marked place is to state the outcomes the graduates can expect if they take and actively apply the training.

Application

It further needs to be said that like any other course, its relevance will be directly related to the ability of the trainee to apply it to his or her own specific situation. Experienced leaders doing the course will gain greater confidence and skill and to lead even more effectively. Others who have shown leadership potential but have not had the background or experience in such positions will gain understanding in what is expected of a leader. They will learn the skills necessary to be a leader.

Course Objectives (Caleb Institute Leaders Course)

Please note the following are not ranked in any order of importance.

Communications Skills.
Graduates should be able to:

1. Cast clearly and confidently their vision in such a way that will command attention.
   
2. Speak in a manner that keeps the interest of the audience.
   
3. Construct a message or prepare a paper in less time than it used to take them before the training.
   
4. Construct a message to effectively overcome the live in-built negative responses within an audience.
   
5. Think in modules and become skilled in developing presentations by utilising the ‘power of the incident’ (story) and thus produce emotive responses to the spoken message or written communiqué

Management Skills.
Graduates should be able to:

1. Apply the major functions of management to whatever project or responsibility they are given, namely, planning, organising, directing, coordinating, controlling and evaluation.
   
2.  Better utilise the knowledge, gifts and creativity of their team, making it possible to accomplish more through their people than before. This is done by discovering their incredible capacity to think creatively, thus producing a quantity of ideas from which to find the best solutions to a given problem.
   
3. Better Facilitate and utilise their team members to develop and implement strategies and plans.
   
4. Increase clarity and reduce confusion in their team through practised delegation methods.
   
5. Help their team make wise decisions by utilising their new decision making matrix tool.
   
6. Hold their team members accountable through clear and agreed upon delegations.
   
7. Maintain their personal strategic life management plan that they have developed during the training in the context of the demands of the ministry and the family.
   

Relational Skills.
Graduates should be able to:

1. Confidently make friends and develop genuine relationships with people who will be stakeholders in the work, i.e. in the mission, church and government etc.
   
2. Build more meaningful and genuine relationships.
   
3. Build stronger teams by decreasing criticism
   
4. Better understand and communicate with the people they lead and serve.
   

Motivational Skills.
Graduates should be able to:

1. Help their team members who are indifferent to become interested, those who are skeptical become convinced and those who are procrastinating to take action.
   
2. Be effective in recruiting staff and volunteers.
   
3. Better encourage donors by discerning and responding to their felt need.
   

Devotional Skills.
Graduates should be able to:

1. Gain skills to build and maintain their Christ-centred identity.
   
2. Learn the unique need for leaders to maintain a personal devotional life in the context of the ministry and family.
   

Strategic plan for their vocation and life.
Graduates should be able to:

1. Develop a plan for the immediate responsibility they have
   
2. Commence a long term life plan
   

Training skills
Graduates should be able to:

1. Understand and use the special workshop format in training their own staff and colleagues.
   
2. Pass on principles of training discovered during the training course
   

Note: During the course Caleb Trainers will be looking to identify those trainees who have the potential to benefit from further specialised trainer training in order to help staff future courses. In the advanced training they will learn more of:

1. The background philosophy, principles and standards of the training.
   
2. The skills necessary to become a competent trainer of the leadership material.
   

Public relations
Graduates should be able to:

1. Identify the Stakeholders and key ‘customers’
   
2. Produce a PR strategy for the stakeholders. (This will be done during the training.)
   

There is one further significant component of the course and that is the Biblical teaching sessions that undergird the presentation. There are seven underlying elements of Leadership that are covered. The Leader must have:

1. A Vision of where he/she is going.
   
2. The ability to communicate well to his/her followers.
   
3. A Shepard’s heart for his/her people.
   
4. An understanding of the role of management as it relates to leadership.
   
5. A deep desire to go on Learning.
   
6. A resolve to handle the pain that comes with leadership.
   
7. The anointing of the Spirit of God on his/her life.