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The FEL Series

Leading With Teams
Leading With Teams focuses on developing a diverse leadership team for ministry success. It reviews the traditional models and offers a biblical alternative. It gives principles for becoming an effective team leader and building a strong leadership team. Also presented are handling team conflict and transitioning to team leadership.

Author: Rev. Jim Wall
Jim Wall is the Senior Pastor and church planter of Western Branch Community Church in Chesapeake, VA. He has over 30 years experience in church planting, church growth, and pastoral ministry. As a missionary in the Philippines for nine years, he planted 48 churches and two ministry training schools. Jim holds a BA in Religious Education, an MA in Pastoral Ministry and is now pursuing his Doctorate in Ministry. Jim, his wife Kim, and children Andrew, Adam and Zach live in Chesapeake, VA.

Main Objective Module Overview Main diagram Session Description Sample Pages

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Main Objective
The object of this module is to help ministry leaders develop a diverse leadership team approach to achieve ministry success by building the three key elements of a leadership team:

1. Team Leader: Participants will learn how to effectively lead and build a team.

2. Team Vision: Participants will learn how shape and impart a vision.

3. Team Members: Participants will learn how to build and mobilize a leadership team.

Module Overview
This module is unique in several ways. It is a training tool to equip Christian leaders to train other Christians for team leadership. This material also challenges and inspires leaders to personally reach their fullest potential as team leaders.

Leading With Teams provides seven sessions on how to better lead, identify and build leadership teams within the ministry for ministry success.

Main Diagram

Session Descriptions

Session	Description
Session 1: Needing a New Leadership Model	We will reveal the problems of current ministry leadership models and identify the need for change, including: 00• three common traditional leadership models. 00• weaknesses in the traditional leadership models. 00• social trends that challenge traditional models. 00• ministry trends demand leadership change.
Session 2: Discovering the Team Leadership Model	We will introduce team leadership as a biblical solution to the leadership needs of the contemporary church, including: 00• biblical examples of team ministry and leadership. 00• two distinct types of ministry teams. 00• role of task teams in ministry planning. 00• six key characteristics of a leadership team.
Session 3: Becoming an Effective Team Leader	We will examine key aspects of an effective team leader, including: 00• three elements of a leadership team. 00• five levels of leadership. 00• seven key responsibilities of a team leader. 00• six results produced by effective team leaders.
Session 4: Shaping a Team Vision	We will examine key aspects of developing a team vision, including: 00• how vision starts with the team leader. 00• five stages in the birth of a vision. 00• five phases of team vision. 00• four keys to shaping the team’s vision. 00• five ways vision impacts a team.
Session 5: Building the Leadership Team	We will examine key aspects of building a leadership team, including: 00• requirements for building a strong leadership team. 00• four primary types of leaders and their respective roles in an effective team. 00• three groups of spiritual gifts to build a team. 00• five primary dysfunctions that limit the success of a leadership team.
Session 6: Resolving Conflict Within the Team	We will examine conflict within a ministry team, including: 00• three areas for propr perspective about conflict. 00• ten common problems that cause conflict within a team. 00• five stages of a conflict cycle. 00• four key principles for resolving team conflict.
Session 7: Transitioning to Leading with Teams	We will examine how to overcome the common obstacles to team leadership, including: 00• assessing the team's effectiveness. 00• recognizing the four stages of team development. 00• seven common obstacles to team leadership. 00• managing change as a leadership team.

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Teams 5-5	Teams 5-8	Teams 7-8

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