Overview of LeaderPath
The mission of Leader Path is to create a culture at Bent Tree that calls and equips followers of Christ to become people of influence (leaders) who lead others in kingdom impact. Our vision for Leader Path is that one day, every leader in our church is bringing someone along in leadership for kingdom impact.
Why?
Why are we placing a strategic focus on leader development at Bent Tree? Quite simply, it’s because Jesus is leading our church to do so. It’s what Jesus has done throughout history. From the time that sin entered the world in the Garden of Eden until now, Jesus has chosen humans as the means by which God demonstrates his grace and invites others into His kingdom. Don’t get us wrong, Jesus does this work, but Jesus does it through humans – through us (John 15:5). Through us, Jesus restores the relationship with humans to God, heals the sick, liberates the captives, rights injustices, feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, quenches eternal thirsts, restores and reignites marriages, breaks addictions, restores hope, produces fruit. Jesus has been doing this through humans in every generation of mankind. At this moment in time, Jesus is inviting us to be used by him to develop the next generation of leaders through whom he makes Kingdom impact.
Leader Path Model
Leader Path is an intentional life-on-life process for developing leaders that is effective, sustainable, and reproducible.
Leader Path Strategy
Core
The Five C’s discuss the leadership DNA (primary and foundational demonstrated beliefs) we expect every leader to embrace and desire to develop.
Pour
Apprenticeship Leader Path is strategically built on the apprentice model because it is the proven transformational model used by Jesus with his disciples (Mark 3:13-15). An apprentice is someone who is being intentionally developed for leadership through practical experience and relational guidance under a leader to obtain a leadership role or competency. The apprentice model goes beyond traditional mentoring or coaching in the fact that apprenticing requires the apprentice to experience an opportunity to actually lead, then debrief that experience to receive developmental feedback and coaching.
ICNU “I see in you” (ICNU) or a “shoulder tap” is the means by which an apprentice is invited into the apprenticeship journey to take the next step in the Leader Path. An existing leader (a LeaderPath guide) shares specific examples they have observed that lead them to believe an emerging leader may be ready for the next step in leadership.
70/20/10 The percentages of how someone develops as a leader – 70% of leadership development comes from the experience of actually leading, 20% from coaching/developmental feedback, 10% from content consumed.
