RETREAT DATES

ELDP eagles emerging leader development program

RETREAT CURRICULUM

For each retreat there will be specific assignments and required reading that will need to be completed prior to the start of the retreat. This is in addition to the on-going mentoring relationship that each participant will be a part of. Click here to read more about the mentoring process.

Retreat 1: Person, Perspective, Partnership, and Performance

Retreat Topics

• Leading for the Long Haul
• Leadership Today for Tomorrow: Eagles 4-P Leadership Model
• Leadership Personality: MBTI Profile and Applying MBTI
• Self Leadership
• Biblical Perspectives and Theology of Leadership
• Leadership in a Changing World
• Leadership Energy: Can/Want/Should
• Leadership Expectation
• Leadership Execution
• Shared Leadership
• What Breaks and Builds a Team
• Leadership Legacy

Experiential Activities

• Traffic Jam

Instruments

• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Personal Pre-Retreat Assignment: Person, Perspective, Partnership, Performance

Case Study

• Pitfalls of Leaders
• Personal Sharing from Leaders

Project Work

• Personal Reflection and Action Plan: Self Assessment

Retreat 2: Change, Conflict, and Politics

Retreat Topics

• Leading in Uncharted Waters
• Managing Transitions
  • Difference between Change and Transitions
  • Transition Framework: Ending, Neutral Zone, New Beginnings
  • Role of a Transition Leader
• Organizational Politics: Abuse and Grace
• Toxic Leadership: What Can I Do about It?
• Conflict and Peacemaking:
  • Biblical Perspectives and PEACE Framework
  • Pursue Peace: What Do I Value Most?
  • Examine Your Interests: Why Am I Fighting?
  • Assess the Conflicts: What Are the Real Issues?
  • Create New Mindset and New Skills: How Can I Respond Positively?
  • Encourage Hope: How Can I Stay Hopeful and Recover?
• The Forgiving Leader

Retreat 3: Heart, Soul, and Mind

Retreat Topics

• The Leader’s Heart: Leadership Lessons from the Life of Joseph
  • Tempest: From Dreams to Disaster
  • Treachery: Promises between Pit and Prison
  • Temptation: What Price Is Your Soul?
  • Triumph: Pyramid of Power, Canopy of Grace
• Leadership Character: Habits of Mind
• Leadership Coherence: Character of Heart
• Leadership Recovery: S.U.M.O. Relationship
• Leadership Derailment
• Leader and Emotional Health
• Leader and Money
• Leadership
• Character: Habits of Focus
• Break Through, Work Through, Pray Through (Do More, Do Less, Start Doing, Stop Doing)

Special Sessions

• The Leader and Sex
• Singles in a Married World

Experiential Activities

• Release and Resist
• Life Images

Instruments

• Emotional Health Assessment

Case Study

• Personal Sharing of a Leader’s Life

Project Work

• Personal Plan: Developing an Emotionally Healthy Life

Retreat 4: Coaching, Community, and Succession Planning

Retreat Topics

• Leader In Partnership
• Leader In Community
• Leader As a Coach
  • The New Coaching Paradigm
  • Coaching: Practical Skills
  • Coaching: Nurturing High Potentials
  • Coaching: Coaching Underperformers
• Leading a Team through Crisis
• Succession Planning:
  • Biblical Mandate and Perspectives
  • Great Quit, Good Quit and Bad Quit
  • The Succession Planning Toolkit
  • Practical Challenges and Issues in Succession Planning
• Leadership Tension: Performance and People
• The Art of Accountability: Discipline and Grace
• The Art of Restoration: Healing the Broken Hearted and Failures

Experiential Activities

• Cords That Bind
• Team Word
• Coaching Role Play

Case Study

• Personal Sharing from Leaders on Succession Planning
• Recovering Leaders

Project Work

• Developing a Leadership Succession Plan

Retreat 5: Values, Competencies, and Decision-Making

Retreat Topics

• Leadership and Influence
• Creating a Value-Based Organization
  • Why Value-Based Organization?
  • Developing and Inculcating Core Values
• Leadership and Strategy
  • Leadership Vision and Strategy
  • Leadership and Execution
• The Competent Leader: Myths and Realities
• Decision-Making, Risk-Taking and Creativity
  • Decision-Making Framework
  • Creativity and Decision-Making
• Ethical Issues in Decision-Making
• Leader As a Communicator

Experiential Activities

• Personal Sharing from Leaders on Strategy
• Personal Sharing from Leaders on Core Values

Instruments

• Church Creative Tensions Scale
• Church Strategy Survey
• Linkage/Eagles Leadership Assessment Instrument

Case Study

• Ethical Issues and Practices in Corrupt Countries

Project Work

• Creating an Organization Vision and Values