Tools for the Missional Pastor
Also from Sheffield's blog:
Edgar Schein talks about tools for enabling "culture-change" in an organizational context. I believe these are useful insights as we seek to understand how leadership can enable the missional church.
1. what leaders pay attention to and control; that is, those things in the life of the community to which the leader gives special attention including having a 'yes' or 'no' role in whether an idea moves forward or not. This sends a signal to the rest of the community that "this is important."
2. how leaders react to critical incidents and crises; that is, do major incidents produce a paralyzing crisis, are they taken in stride, or are they avoided/ignored? this sends a signal to the rest of the community of what can be expected in future situations from their leader, and therefore community behaviour will change to accommodate to the leader.
3. deliberate role modeling and coaching; that is, those activities or ministries in which the leader takes an active role in defining how they should be developed or conducted, and then provides means for coaching others to carry on. This sends a signal to the rest of the community about how ministry should be conducted and what leadership models are valued.
4. criteria for allocation of rewards and status; that is, the leader sets the pattern (defines the categories) for how "successful" ministry should be rewarded and what roles the leaders of "successful" ministries might play in the wider community. This tells the community what "success" looks like to their leader.
5. criteria for leadership selection and recruitment; that is, the leader established criteria for the kind of leaders they will work with as well as the the process for identifying and devleoping such leaders. (Schein 2004, 224-225)
posted by Brian at 9:24 AM
1 Comments:
Both Sheffield's and Schein's comments are great (though I'm not familiar with either of them).
Brian, did you attend the Gene Wood seminars at Midwest Region conference on Leading Turnaround Churches? I thought it interesting his "95% Theory" -- 95% of all major problems in the local church are basically power struggles."
I can see where implementing these tools from "Schein" would be a good way to deal with this issue. Because don'tyou think most power struggles result from a lack of leadership?
I think many of the major problems I have had weren't because I made strong decisions for big change, but usually seemed to be a result of NOT making decisions that needed to be made, or not addressing issues that needed adddressed. And don't those situations arise when we forget, as leaders, what the church is supposed to be all about? (I need to re-read The Present Future).
Good stuff. thanks for sharing.
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