Essay on Envisioning Leadership Team

The Community ministry will require a total of five leaders because the positions of leadership have been departmentalized into five. Therefore, every department will have five leaders for the community ministry outreach. In addition to that, there will also be assistance for the five leaders. So there will be five leaders and their assistance. Some of the departments are; overseer, group coordinator, treasurer, secretary and the chairman. The chairman will be free to set up other temporary committees in case a need arises. For a person to qualify as a leader, he/she should meet the following criteria; must be a born-again Christian, must be over the age of 225 years, must be of sound mind, must have at least a high school certificate and must be a good communicator. The leaders will be trained on the skills and traits of effective leadership. Major policies and actions of leadership must be properly reviewed by the leadership team to ensure that the leaders stick to leadership goals, mission, and vision (Reynolds & Wallace, 2016).

Setting up development goals for the leadership team

Goal Leadership Development activities Timeline

The leadership team will learn how to relate with different cultures and communities. This will include basic training on how to learn the general cultures of common cultures of different communities. The trainings will be given by a team that will be chosen by the chairman of the leadership team. This is supposed to take one month, from August to September.

Overseers will learn how to supervise and monitor all the operations that are to occur before meetings, during outreach meetings and after the meetings. The training for this purpose will also depend on who the team of leaders chose. However, the first team will be trained by Michael Smith and Sharon Kyle as his assistant. Training for this goal should only take a period of three weeks.

Increase the ability of the leadership team to work together in harmony. Have a group rotation program where the leaders visit the different communities other leaders are assigned. This goal should take two weeks.

Increase diversity among the leaders. Apart from the fact that the leadership team for every region will be from diverse communities, there will be organized diversity programs. One year.

Picking methods

For effective and efficient leadership, it will be important to have all the leaders trained on leading by example as they teach the followers (Bhatia et al, 2015). That will make it simple to lead the group because when a leader sets an example through action, the teachings of the leader will be well understood by the followers. For the lead by example to be more meaningful, it will be important for the leaders to be mentors. They should be more intimate in teaching their followers on how to do things. To make the leaders efficient and relevant, it will be important to take them through the following programs; orientations, exchange programs, training sessions and workshops and retreats.

Setting leadership development goals for individual leaders

To be successful in planning for the leadership of the team, leadership stereotypes will not be a consideration factor. However, it will be necessary to check on the potential of every person. However, individual leadership skills will be an asset, as the following will be considered; the person with the most number of skills, the one who can handle leadership responsibilities most efficiently, the aspect of interest will also be of great consideration within the team of leadership and the identification of growth potential of individuals (Clinton, 2017).

Recruitment of new leaders

Following basic criteria and requirements that will be laid down, the leadership team will be selected in a rigorous process. This process will require that interested candidates should apply for the positions after which a team will go through all the applications and shortlist candidates for interview. The shortlisted candidates will then be required to attend the interview along with the relevant documents that will be posted on the print adverts. Individual candidates will be emailed on the date and place of the interview. After the interview, the successful candidates will receive both a message notification and a call.

Leadership development

The leaders will be empowered to develop themselves to be better leaders. To help them pursue that personal initiative, there will be the availability of regular programs that are targeted at improving the leadership skills of leaders. Such programs are similar to the ones mentioned in the picking methods, and they include; exchange programs, retreats, workshop and training sessions and orientation programs. To ensure the effectiveness of these initiatives, individual leadership will be measured, and relevant actions will be taken.

Part 2

Application of practices 1-7

For a proper application of the steps for effective leadership, I will first strive to create a thinking process. Thinking processes are very important because they eliminate boundaries or the tendency of individuals in the organization to create territories (Micklich, 2014). That would be lethal for the progress of the organization because for all the systems and individuals to operate, connectivity and harmony will be necessary. Creating a disconnect through territories will, therefore, disrupt the necessary tools of connectivity and harmony. To come up with the thinking steps, I will create a roadmap that will demonstrate the process of reaching every destination with the goal of thinking processes. The available steps will then be reviewed to eliminate the redundant and repetitive steps or processes. In addition to that, appropriate steps will also be generated to help for leaders to reach the winning destinations more effectively. In the development of the thinking destinations, it will be more appropriate to ensure that the steps that would have been generated have the following characteristics; every step should be easy to understand and follow, in addition to the steps being simple, they should also be obvious and strategic. After developing the appropriate thinking steps for leaders, the steps will be reviewed to ascertain if they meet the characteristics mentioned above.

Importantly too is the application of narrow focus to guarantee maximum concentration in the relevant area of practice that will later lead to maximum output. Narrowing down to a specific area of practices is more profitable than starting up with numerous projects that are never finished. Therefore, to effectively realize the steps above, it will be important to ensure that the later step has been exhausted and done as efficiently as possible before moving to the next step. After all the steps have been completed, it will then be necessary to repeatedly test the whole process to ensure that they are both efficient and effective (Brands, Menges & Kilduff, 2015). Another important aspect that will help in achieving the steps above would be to simplify the steps as much as possible. Complicated steps are normally very difficult to follow up from one set of leadership to the next. In fact, the simple a set of steps, the easier it will be to interpret, understand and apply. That way, fewer resources and time will be required to demystify the steps for a new set of leadership. In addition to that, application of the steps will also be very easy and practical, reducing the chances of hitches with applying the steps.

In targeting the right audience for the steps above, it will also be very necessary to create a good brand. That will include narrowing down to the specific and relevant image that will be required for easy identification. In setting up a brand, it will be important to identify a primary target group for the program, procedure or steps set out. After that, every environment would be designed to perform a specific task. That will also be necessary especially for the purposes of utilizing resources. Utilization of resources will be good for the progress of the program in question. Clarification of winning is important because it will draw attention to from the relevant members. For example, a winning strategy will create an incentive for the team to use and develop the process model. In addition to that, clarifying the win will also be necessary for the purposes of creating a standard for reflecting the success of the process, procedure or steps (Pfrimmer, 2015). Also, the team will be able to stay on the winning team because all the members will have a common reference point or a standard for measuring performance. To clarify the win, it will be important, to sum up, or summarize the win in a simple phrase.

Also, to continue to keep track on the win, it is useful to create an environment for easily measuring that win. Measuring the win might begin with a simple move of asking simple questions during every meeting that will be important for keeping the team thinking about the win and the winning strategy. Another way of following up on the win is to have shot and relevant videos for the win and their strategy along with respective comments from all the members attending meetings. Following up on the win and its strategy and reiterating it on the team is also an important strategy towards getting better results of the steps for effective leadership.

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