PC070-812 - Empowering Leadership

  • 2,976 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 8
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • pastoral churchUnit Discipline

Exclusions

Prior to 2020, this unit content was delivered under the unit code PC716-4. Unit exclusions: PC037-812, PC037-912

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

1. Demonstrate Advanced knowledge and understanding of, and the research underlying, empowering leadership 

B. Be able to

1. Examine recent scholarship on empowering leadership

2. Demonstrate skill in implementing evidence-based approaches to empowering leadership

3. Present Research-Aware perspectives on empowering leadership
 

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Advanced perspectives and skills from ‘Empowering Leadership’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

  1. Missional Context
  • key features and challenges of ministry and mission in 21st century Australia
  1. Team Leadership    
  • roles and responsibilities of leaders.
  • team formation, growth and development dynamics
  • characteristics of effective teams and how leadership approaches impact on team identity and cohesiveness.
  • leadership models and case studies
  1. Developing Leaders
  • methods for effective delegation
  • principles of multiplying leaders
  • specific strategies for communicating vision in their ministry context.
  • communicating to different generations
  • the purpose of defining a collective vision.
  • Creating clarify a vision, mission and values statement for a particular ministry context.
  • a process of defining an implementing strategic and operational goals.
  • the principles of managing diverse people.
  1. Coaching Leaders  
  • focusing on strength’s development and identifying the crux of any problem
  • exploring options for personal development and problem solving
  • developing plans to achieve goals and overcome problems
  1. Leadership Development Plans       
  • setting and achieving personal and ministry development goals

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Allen, David. Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. New York: Penguin USA, 2010.

Cloud, Henry. Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2006.

Collins, Jim. Good to Great and the Social Sectors: Why Business Thinking is Not the Answer. Boulder: Jim Collins, 2006.

Dickson, John P. Promoting the Gospel: the Whole of Life for the Cause of Christ. Rev. ed. Sydney South: Blue Bottle Books, 2006.

Frost, Michael. The Road to Missional: Journey to the Center of the Church. Ada: Baker Books, 2011.

Kotter, John P. Leading Change. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1996.

Kotter, John P., and Holger Rathgeber. Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions. London: Macmillan, 2006.

Lawrence, James. Growing Leaders: Reflections on Leadership, Life and Jesus. Oxford: Bible Reading Fellowship, 2004.

Lencioni, Patrick. The five dysfunctions of a team: a leadership fable. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Mancini, Will. Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement. New York: Jossey-Bass, n.d.

McCrindle, Mark. The ABC of XYZ. Sydney: UNSW Press, 2010.

Sayers, Mark. The Vertical Self: How Biblical Faith Can Help Us Discover Who We Are in an Age of Self Obsession. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 2010.

Scott, Susan. Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time. New York: Berkley Books, 2004.