Coaching

The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture (2007) by Thomas Crane 

More and more leaders and their organizations are becoming convinced in the business case for creating a “coaching culture”. This book provides the tools for leaders and teams to develop a common language and shared protocol and a learning and development orientation towards people. These critical dynamics support the entire culture becoming a “feedback-rich, high-performance” organization.

Christ -centered Coaching: 7 Benefits for Ministry Leaders (2006) by Jane Creswell

“Richly illustrated with case histories, biblical guidelines, and practical insights, this is a helpful overall introduction to what coaching is and to what it can do, especially in ministry situations.

 

 

Assessments

Technical Assistance Inventory:  Provides a snapshot of individuals’ stewardship of God’s household economy, “oikonomia,” as known in the local church.  The inventory is a self-assessment of individuals’  proficiencies in seven key stewardship and/or management areas—Leading Change, Strategic Vision & Planning, Church Infrastructure, Paid Staffing Issues, Volunteer Staffing Issues, Church Finances and Fundraising—of God’s church. 

 

Birkman:  An industry-leading personality self-assessment and related reports that facilitates team building, professional coaching, leadership development and interpersonal conflict resolution. The instrument creates a multi-dimensional portrait of individuals highlighting their usual behaviors, stress behaviors, underlying needs and motivations and organizational orientations.

 

Leadership Practice Inventory (LPI): A multi-rater feedback (360-degree instrument) specifically designed to assess individuals’ competencies necessary to achieve goals. Competencies include: modeling the way, inspiring a shared vision, challenging the process, enabling others to act and encouraging the heart. Approaching leadership as a measurable, learnable, and teachable set of behaviors, LPI demonstrates that leadership in everyone’s responsibility.