Coach
What would it be like to have someone spend an hour with you each month, helping you figure out how to do what God is calling you to do? Working with you as clarify goals, identify obstacles, explore options, and discover resources? Someone who both challenges you and cheers you on?
This is what a coach does. By providing resources, accountability, a listening ear, and provocative questions, a coach supports and encourages you as you set goals and work to achieve them. A coach is not a counselor, teacher or mentor. A coach helps you recognize and apply what God has already given you.
Karen specializes in coaching ministry leaders in working with volunteers. Consider a coach if you are:
- A ministry leader wishing to improve your skills in working with volunteers
- A new hire or new volunteer "point person" at your church
- Desiring to advance your volunteerism skills
For less than the cost of attending a typical conference, a church can provide ten coaching sessions for a key volunteerism leader.
How it works:
- A series of 6-12 sessions are contracted to work on your agreed-upon goal
- Sessions are one hour long; are done on the phone or, if local, in person
- The person being coached completes reflection questions before each session
- The person being coached completes agreed-upon action plans between sessions
- Contact Karen for the per-session fee and for references.
Karen also serves as a speaker and consultant. For increased impact and cost savings, consider a package of services, or build your own package. Details.
Contact karen@theequipper.org for fees and references.
Getting the most benefit from equipping services
Congregations reap greater benefits from a speaker, coach or consultant when church leaders understand the basics of being an equipping church and are willing to follow through with implementation. A speaker/coach/consultant brings tools as well as ideas, information and enthusiasm. The tools are for work that must be done by the congregation, and that work is more likely to take place when leaders have begun preparations. Before engaging my services for anything other than a single presentation, I suggest a church invest by doing the following:
- A minimum of 3-4 people become familiar with the principles of equipping people to serve through such resources as:
- this website
- Me to We by Alan Nelson
- The Equipping Church by Sue Mallory
- The Equipping Church Guidebook by Sue Mallory and Brad Smith
- Key church leaders, including the pastor, understand and endorse the key principles of equipping people to serve, understanding especially that equipping impacts the entire church
- A team of 3 or more people, with an identified leader, has committed to lead the equipping effort.