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Kent Smith, Missions Coordinator for North America for Abilene Christian University and a DAWN regional co-ordinator, asked me to join a church planting coaching quad. He will be working with Chadd (my good friend in Mexico), another church planter and myself to help us develop our coaching skills. As part of this group, Kent wanted as to read Leadership Coaching by Tony Stoltzfus.  The book is about using coaching in ministry. I’m supposed to have it read by the new year, so I wanted to generate some discussion on it and record my thoughts for a reference. Since coaching is becoming popular, especially in some of the circles of simple church, I felt it important to critique it throughly since it could potentially effect so many people. To do so, I opened a new blog that will be devoted to reviewing the book chapter by chapter: Leadership Coaching Review Blog.
For more on Stoltzfus’ book, check out this dicription from Amazon: Book Description
Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life. Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching. Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow Buy the book through rUrevolutionary.com, and you’ll help support that great site: click here.
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