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How to Develop Leaders Through Coaching

You’ll get no argument from me. I love to teach and do regularly. The question is: What teaching methods are most effective for developing leaders? There’s more to teaching than telling. It’s been shown again and again that adults learn better through dialogue and discovery than by someone lecturing to them.

Think of how you like to learn. Maybe you can relate to Winston Churchill when he said, “I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.”

As we develop leaders, I want to suggest a different approach—integrating coaching skills. Leaders are developed through a mysterious mixture of reflection, experience, ideation, authenticity, critical thinking and guidance. It can be a messy process. A coaching approach facilitates this process.

An excerpt from Keith E. Webb’s book Coaching In Ministry: How Busy Church Leaders Can Multiply Their Ministry Impact. (Bellevue, WA: Active Results LLC, 2015)