Community Bible Study e E-Zine of Leadership Development summer 2016 thoughts.on.elevate “Summer should get a speeding ticket.” Days turn to weeks, weeks to months and before we know it August arrives. Training time. Looking for some new inspiration? Look no further. Elevate extra is designed to help you construct a training that brings fresh energy and concrete results. Sent just to Servants Team Members*, this is your resource for firsthand ideas for this year’s pre-class training. Read on and don’t forget about past issues from 2013, 2014 and 2015 that you can review on the Leadership Development website. * This includes Teaching Director, Associate Teaching Director, Coordinator, Children and Youth Director, Prayer Chairman, and Senior Leader. To easily access the Leadership Development website, go to www.communitybiblestudy.org/leadershipdevelopment/ • Allows people more opportunity for involvement • Participants learn from each other • Allows more time for practice • Makes learning more active • Breaks down inhibitions and allows bonding • Gets introverted learners more involved Benefits of using small groups during training Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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Community Bible StudyThe E-Zine of Leadership Developmentsummer 2016
thoughts.on.elevate“Summer should get a speeding ticket.” Days turn to weeks, weeks to months and before we know it August arrives. Training time. Looking for some new inspiration? Look no further. Elevate extra is designed to help you construct a training that brings fresh energy and concrete results. Sent just to Servants Team Members*, this is your resource for firsthand ideas for this year’s pre-class training. Read on and don’t forget about past issues from 2013, 2014 and 2015 that you can review on the Leadership Development website.
* This includes Teaching Director, Associate Teaching Director, Coordinator, Children and Youth Director, Prayer Chairman, and Senior Leader.
To easily access the Leadership Development website, go to
“We talk too much. As trainers and teachers, we bore our learners to death. We don’t mean to. We truly think that we are doing the opposite. But the fact remains: As long as listeners are passively sitting and listening to us talk, they are not learning much….The resistance to this type of learning grows stronger with each generation.” – Sharon Bowman
Here are the four steps of instructional design detailed in this book with an example of each. To see all of the strategies purchase a copy for yourself!
1. Connections allow learners to realize what they already know or think they know about the topic, to see what they will learn as well as what they want to learn and to get to know each other.
Post instructions that read: “After reading this, introduce yourself to someone you do not yet know well. Tell this person why you are here and what you want to learn from this training.”Ask for a few volunteers to state who they met and what their partner said.
Print a list of topic-related questions on a wall chart. The posted instructions should read: “Skim the questions on the wall chart and choose one to ask three or more people in the room who are not seated near you. Record their answers on an index card and be ready to report the results
of your survey to your table group”. Standing Survey questions are: What is the most important fact you already know about this topic? How will this topic affect the role you are in? What is a question you have about this topic? What do you think is not important about this topic? Some suggested training topics are “How to facilitate a core group discussion”, “How to lead conversational prayer” or “The importance of shepherding in CBS”.
2. Concepts are the new facts and information they will take in through multisensory tools that involve hearing, seeing, discussing, writing, reflecting, imagining, participating and teaching others.
Pause during training and instruct learners to think about the material just covered. Ask them to state the five most important points they need to remember. Let them share, accepting all points unless they are incorrect. Add any they miss that are vital.
3. Concrete Practice is exercising new skills and active review of their new knowledge.
Improvisation is a role-play, jazzed up with more spontaneity and less structure. Instructions are as follows: Explain to learners what an Improv Teach Back is and that, as a whole group, they will need to have eight Teach-Backs done in two minutes. This means each Teach-Back should
last between ten and fifteen seconds. Choose a timer who will signal when fifteen seconds are up. One participant volunteers to begin by standing and talking about what he/she has learned so far. While talking he can be as dramatic as he wishes, using gestures and voice tone to emphasize the information and add humor. In the middle of a sentence (when the timer signals that fifteen seconds have passed), he abruptly stops talking and calls out another learner’s name. This next participant stands and immediately picks up where the first left off. The second talks until time is up and then calls out another name. The rounds continue until the number of Improv Teach-Backs has been reached.
4. Conclusions permit learners to summarize what they have learned, evaluate it, and create action plans for how it will be used.
Learners do the following: On index cards print how they plan to apply what they learned. Also print their name and email address on the card. Exchange cards with another person forming a pair of Card Exchange Partners. They then commit to email each other every other week for the first two months after
training. In the email they tell their partner how they’ve used what they learned, where they are having challenges, what questions they have and a goal they have set as they are moving forward. In the email they can include notes of encouragement and feedback related to their challenges or questions.
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Tour Guide Training Institute - Tour guides don‘t send travelers to discover places on their own - they prepare and lead their group, taking the journey with them each step of the way. So it is with core leaders
and children and youth teachers; they are being prepared to be “tour guides” in each of their ministry areas.
This theme could be used for any study. Servants Team members could dress up like tour guides -complete with vests and name badges.
CLICK HERE to see the complete Training Theme package.
Mangia Bene! - This training theme focuses on preparing leaders to serve in Mangia Bene, Trattoria di CBS. Mangia Bene is italian for “Eat Well” and a Trattoria serves simple homemade food, often rustic in style. It is the desire of CBS that those who come to our establishment will feel at home and eat well from God’s Word. Just as waiters work to make their customers feel comfortable and well-tended, so we at CBS have a similar philosophy as we serve.
**Remember - you can adapt this theme for other studies. For example, if you are studying Return to Jerusalem or Romans you may want to have a Mediterranean theme, and the restaurant may be called the Jerusalem Cafe. Use the creative people on your team to think outside the box!! CLICK HERE to find the details on this theme.
pre.class.training.themes
get.up.to.speed.on.leading.generationsJust three months ago you opened your email to find the Spring 2016 Issue of Elevate. Many of you have responded to that issue relaying how valuable the information was. So, put that good information to use by creating a training session using the material in that issue.
Title your session: How to Lead through the Age Divide. Outline the session into these divisions:
Descriptions of the four generations that attend our classes
Use a media clip (or two) from the list of websites provided in the Spring 2016 Issue of Elevate to emphasize the importance of the topic, the characteristics of different generations, etc.
Involve some of your leaders who represent the generations or who have a passion for this issue. Ask them to talk about how they are best shepherded, how they like to approach studying and communicating with others. Use the article entitled “Lots of Communicating Going On” to help with ideas.
End with group or small group discussions of how to respond to each Generation with love and wisdom. Ask questions about the need to change our language, approach, and shepherding.
If, as a Servants Team, you are lacking passion for this topic or a desire to develop the session, look back at the last issue of Elevate and read the article entitled, “Stretching…”. Let God show you the importance of reaching all His generations.
• Presentations - panel discussion, story telling, guided note taking
• Drama - skits, role-plays, flash mob
• Discussions- brain storm - shepherding, welcoming members well, leading core groups
• Technology use - videos, movie clips
• Team Games - Minute To Win It, Jeopardy (review class details), Wheel of Fortune
For easy access to the Leadership Development website bookmark the above link for great ideas
about training and leadership development.
Can you tell your Story in five Minutes ?Nothing is more valuable than a story of how God changed a life. It should be the goal of every CBS leader to be able to give a concise testimony of God’s faithfulness and transforming power in their life.
Use the NEW resource “Testimony Workshop” located on the LD Website.
CLICK HERE to access the tool which includes a video of a CBS leader sharing her testimony. Pre-class training is the perfect time for leaders to begin writing and learning to share their story.
pre.class.training
Cast a vision - As the TD you have the responsibility to let your leaders know where they are going! Select a scripture or develop a phrase. It is easier to remember if it is short and sweet! Use it visually throughout training. Refer to it often during the year.
Challenge – TD you are the one that provides the charge for your leaders. Take 10 or 15 minutes to challenge your leaders about their commitment, as they study the Word and shepherd their flock.
Consider a theme for training. Examples include but are not limited to: The Olympics, Survivor, Mission Impossible.
Start with an icebreaker and “blink your theme” throughout training.
For two complete training themes see those suggested in this issue of Elevate.
Content is vital. See the Servants Team manual for what should be covered in pre-class training. Peruse all the additional resources and training sessions on the Leadership Development website. LINK
ConClude with an activity that will motivate, challenge, review and/or reinforce what they have learned.
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Great teams aren’t just created but built. Team building is all about ensuring that individuals work together in harmony, communicate well and develop leadership skills. Within the ministry of CBS each Leaders Council is a team, growing in their understanding of the Word of God while studying and serving together.
One of the most important outcomes of pre-class training is that leaders bond together in purpose and relationship. Learning to support one another as they go forward is key to a unified and dynamic leadership.
Engage in team-building activities as part of training. Help leaders learn more about each other and how to work together. Their commitment to their call as a CBS leader will strengthen as they link arms and minds with others who share their passion and commitment.
Use this practical team building exercise called Birthday Lineup. It works like this:
1. Have all leaders line up in a straight line. (If you have a large Leaders Council form more than one line)
2. Give the following instructions: Your task is to line up in order of your birthdate (month and day). You cannot talk or use written communication that shows your birthdate (like a driver’s license). All other forms of communication – sounds, gestures, etc. are allowed. When everyone believes the group is in the right order raise your hands. That will let me know you are ready.
3. Give the group the necessary time to do the exercise. (15-25 minutes)
Make notes based on your observations. How did they communicate?
How did they resolve confusion? How did they reach consensus?
4. Go down the line and ask each person his/her birthdate. If they’re in the right order, congratulate them.
Ask them the following questions:
How did you communicate with each other?
What made communication so difficult?
How did you know whether someone was in agreement or disagreement?
What did you learn about effective communication when there is confusion?
What does it take to reach consensus?
How does this parallel the way we work together as CBS leaders?
These thoughts on Team-building were excerpted from “The Team Building Workshop” by Vivette Payne
Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence.
