A coach approach to supervision

Here's a class for pastors who lead smaller staffs and want to take a more collaborative approach to leadership.

Over and over clergy coachees ask me for supervisory resources. After all, most pastors enter ministry expecting to do the frontline work of preaching, teaching, and providing pastoral care, with a side of meetings. Once they are in their contexts, though, they realize that they have significant responsibilities for other full-time or part-time staff. Many seminaries don’t train students for this hard, holy work, and there aren’t a lot of great non-businessy resources out there, especially for pastors who lead smaller churches and/or who want to build a collaborative staff culture.

That’s why I’m offering a 4-week class in the new year to help pastors build their own coach approach to supervision. This class is open to those seeking ICF credit toward a credential or credential renewal AND to pastors who are not and do not plan to become credentialed coaches.

Class participants will learn the basics of coaching and their usefulness in supervision (as well as the limits of coaching in supervision, given the power dynamics of staff relationships), discover their supervision style, and construct their own coach approach to supervision through assessments, discussion around specific aspects of building and supporting a staff, and case studies brought from the participants’ own contexts.

Here are the logistics:

Tuesdays, January 16-February 6 (4 weeks; 8 hours)

2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, ET/1:00 pm to 3:00 pm CT

Zoom

The fee, payable to Summit Coach Training, is $350. A deposit of $75 holds your spot, and the remainder can be paid monthly.

You can find more information here and register here.

I hope that you’ll consider this class and help spread the word to those who might be interested.