OPEN APR 29, 2022 – JUL 03, 2022 550 $
Team Leadership
Changing the world with the right team! God has given each person unique abilities and gifts, that contribute to the spread of the kingdom of God. High-quality leadership is very important in the church, especially considering that most of the actual work is performed by volunteers working individually or in teams. One of the most central tasks of a leader is to call people into the right jobs and to empower them and lead them in those positions.
TIME COMMITMENT6 HOURS PER WEEK
DURATION4 WEEKS + RESEARCH
PACETUTOR GUIDED
MODULMULTIPLICATION
COURSE LANGUAGEENGLISH
VIDEO TRANSCRIPTAVAILABLE IN ENGLISH
DIFFICULTYINTRODUCTORY
CREDIT HOURS2
TOTAL TIME40 HOURS IN TOTAL INCL. LECTURE AND RESEARCH

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What you´ll learn

Team Leadership: Team aspects, dynamics, and development
Changing the world with the right team! God has given each person unique abilities and gifts, that contribute to the spread of the kingdom of God. High-quality leadership is very important in the church, especially considering that most of the actual work is performed by volunteers working individually or in teams. One of the most central tasks of a leader is to call people into the right jobs and to empower them and lead them in those positions.
An effective leader must build his or her team with the goal to be reached and the necessary abilities to reach that goal in mind. There are natural tensions between pursuing a goal, respecting the team process, and honoring the personal growth agendas of each individual. These tensions need to be guided in ways that achieve the goal while facilitating the growth of strong team unity.

Course Goals

  • The student describes the biblical meaning and significance of ministry call and vocation.
  • The student acquires the ability to recognize fellow team members in their diverse abilities and gifts, to facilitate the development of these abilities, and to organize them effectively to fulfill the task at hand.
  • The student list and defines his/her own leadership style and leadership values. The student describes visionary team leadership in light of his/her own leadership style and leadership values.
  • The student articulates the team founding and development process and the function of leadership in that process.

Acquired Skills

  • to be announced
OPEN APR 29, 2022 – JUL 03, 2022
550 $

Contents of the course in detail

Team Leadership: Team aspects, dynamics, and development
  • The Triune God: complete unity as “team,” one direction, one purpose/task/action
  • The “Jesus team-development” program: the biblical principles of serving and biblical leadership models
  • The biblical foundation of ministry: vocation
  • Team processes and team development
  • Personality development (a leader’s development path)
  • Authority: natural authority—delegated authority
  • Clarity of goals in the philosophy of ministry
  • Criteria for good staff selection and development
  • Diversity and similarity between people, varieties of human gifting
  • Various leadership styles, leading with integrity and spiritual authority
  • Team development: a team development model
  • Personal development and organizational development in mutual dependence
  • Submission, the ability to give and receive criticism, power as a leadership factor
  • Conflicts: always a chance for something new
  • The team leader’s toolbox: organization, team-handling, team meetings, structures (processes and routines, individual conversations, etc.)

Faculty

To be announced

Final exam

Online test

Evaluation and Grading

2 reports, 1 page each, describing the content and responding to one chapter each from the required or supplemental reading (20% of grade).
Practical exercise(s) in team development (40% of grade).
Open book final exam (40% of grade)

Preparatory tasks for the students

to be announced

Proof of achievement

to be announced

Required Reading

To be announced.

Additional Bibliography

To be announced.