Mentoring Profiles

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

Ideal mentoring Profile

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Lone Eagle

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Lone Eagle Profile
 Founding pastors of large churches, church
planters who are working independently and don't
have accountability relationships.

 These types are usually task oriented people with

workaholic tendency.

 In a long run could pay the price of burnout.

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

Lone Eagle Profile

 Recommendations:

- First establish downward mentoring so that the

work can be sustained.
- Secondly to find upward mentoring.

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

Authoritarian

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Authoritarian

- Leadership style is highly directive

- Not open for critical (“feed back”)
- Often abusing power, conflict in ministry in some
way is the norm.

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Authoritarian

 Recommendations:

- Upward mentoring should be established first.

- Then external lateral mentoring.
- Then downward mentoring

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

Elitist

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Elitist
- Usually operate in Para church organizations
where there is much freedom to operate.
- Believe in their organization/movement and what
they are doing. What they are doing is usually the
best.
- They don’t need anyone from other organization to
tell what to do or correct them.
- If they have relationships is usually only with
internal peers at very loose level – “how to” or
stimulus to competition.

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Elitist
 Recommendations:
- First establish external relationships with people
from other organizations/churches.

- Develop upward mentoring with people from

external to the organization.

- Learning from other external peers will lead to

learning from upward mentors and then internal
peers.

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Politician

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Politician
- Leaders who are attracted to positional authority in
organization.

- They are usually aware of how to work the system

for their benefit. /promotional reasons/.

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 Politician
 Recommendations:

- Probably need upward mentoring first in order to

straighten out spiritual issues.
- Then lateral mentoring with external peers to have
different perspective.
- Credibility can be reestablished with internal
peers.

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 MINISTRY TIMI LINE

| I. Ministry Foundations II. Growth Ministry III. Unique Ministry

|-----------------|-----------------------|----------------------|--------------------|----------------|--------------|
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Sovereign Leadership Provisional Competent Role Convergence
Foundations Transition Ministry Ministry Transition

Approximate Time Spans

13-21 years 3-7 years 6-10 years 10-15 years 2-5 years 5-25 years

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Mentoring Range Over Time
 Leadership Transition stage

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Mentoring Range Over Time
 Provisional Leadership stage

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Mentoring Range Over Time
 COMPETENT Leadership stage

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Mentoring Range Over Time
 Convergence Leadership stage

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 Mentoring balance model is an ideal model
 Few people can maintain relationships in all these
directions simultaneously.
 Despite of that it dose remain a goal that beckons
us to evaluate our needs. /gives idea which kinds
mentoring we need focus on now/.
 Once the model is known and the value of kinds of
relationships of each quadrants are seen we have
something that can guide us.
 We should guard both upward and downward
mentoring relationships and seek to have these on
some frequent basis
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 FIVE CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADERS
FINISHING WELL

1.THEY HAD PERSPECTIVE.

2. THEY ENJOYED REPEATED TIMES OF SPECIAL INNER RENEWAL.

3. THEY EXERCISED SPECIAL DISCIPLINES.

4. THEY MAINTAINED A LEARNING POSTURE ALL THEIR LIVES.

5. THEY HAD SEVERAL IMPORTANT MENTORS DURING THEIR

LIFETIME.

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis

 6 Barriers to Finishing Well
Proverbs 22:3

1. Finaces – their use and abuse

2. Power – its abuse
3. Pride – which leads to downfall
4. Sex – illict relationships
5. Family – critical issues
6. Plateauing
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 Do you want to finish well?
And if you answer that question with a resounding yes there remains one
more qvestion.

You must both ask and answer this question.

WILL YOU MENTOR ME?

I hope you will find those who will say yes to you and to whom you will
say yes

Robert Clinton / Igors Rautmanis