PASTORAL MINISTRY TRAINING

COURSE TITLE: LEADERSHIP

DIPLOMA
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will the student understand leadership. They will be able to discover the leader
in them and also develop and grow their leadership abilities. They will know that for
anything in this world be it in the corporate world, governance, institutions, spiritual or non-
spiritual, growth, results, betterment, development is dependent on leadership. The failure
of leadership is the failure of institutions, businesses, communities, cities and nations. This
proves that the rise and fall of something is solely dependent on leadership.

COURSE OBJECTIVE
1. To help the student understand what leadership is and is all about.
2. To expose the student to various leadership styles.
3. To help student understand the different levels of leadership
4. To help student distinguish spiritual leadership from other forms of leadership
5. To help students develop good leadership qualities and understand the power
of vision
6. Expose students to the secrets of transforming followers into leaders

COURSE OUTLINE
1. DEFINING LEADERSHIP

- Worldly perspective of leadership

- Spiritual understanding of leadership

2. THE NEED FOR LEADERSHIP

- Why leadership? The need for leadership

- Leadership the call of God
- Areas of leadership
- God and leaders/leadership
- Why does God need men to lead men
3. CONSEQUENCES OF LACK OF LEADERSHIP

- Destruction of the mainstay of a nation

- Loss of significant people in society
- Governance consequences
- Spiritual consequences

4. QUALITIES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF LEADERSHIP

A. A PROSPEROUS SPIRIT
- What is a prosperous spirit
- What makes a prosperous spirit
- A leader without limitations

B. QUALITY OF HIS SPIRIT

- The manner of the spirit of man
- Manifesting the manner of our spirit

C. EXCELLENCE OF CHARACTER
- What it means to have an excellence of character
- Character matters, it is more than giftedness of a person
- Leadership void is created by talented, skilled leaders with no character
- Developing character: What we value, what we believe, what we serve
- What are the consequences of leader lacking excellence of character

D. LEADERSHIP IN TAKING RESPONSIBILITY

- The inability to see things that need a leaders attention
- Seeing and not acting
- Seeing the need and acting to meet the need
- The vital success ingredient

E. HAS SOMETHING THAT DISTINGUISHES HIM/HER

- Greatness is in that which makes someone different from others
- Having, knowing and using what distinguishes you from the rest
- Leaders lead by the difference they make and not what they can gain
 F. LIGHT IN A MAN

- What it means for a man to have light

- Importance of light in a leader
- Light was made to function where there is darkness

G. REVERENCE

- Reverence for God

- A man that honours God, will have honour for God’s people
- A secret to His presence and power

H. LEADING BY INFLUENCE

- Good leaders lead by influence and impact

- The secrets of influence
- A listening leader and value of listening
- A leader believes in those he leads
- A leader shows interest in people’s lives
- The leader understands the people, he knows their abilities, their
limitations and he is not hindered by limitations of the people
- The leader allows for people to develop and grow

I. A LEADER PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT

- A leader needs to develop himself/herself

- Importance of personal development
- What activates personal development
- What happens when there is lack of leader personal development
- Vital leadership competencies

5. A LEADERS RELATIONSHIP WITH FOLLOWERS

- Value people
- Let them know you want them around
- Appreciate them
- A Shepherd leader
6. LEADERSHIP DIMENSIONS

The letters of Paul and dimensions of leadership revealed

- Charismatic /Value Based Leadership

- Team-oriented Leadership
- Self-protective Leadership
- Participative Leadership
- Human oriented Leadership
- Autonomous Leadership

7. EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

A. WHAT DEFINES AN EFFECTIVE LEADER

- Relevance: Being appropriate to the need and events of the time

- Enlightenment: Insightful and open minded: Ability to see afresh and
with much clarity
- Being a producer: The ability to get things done with
expected/perceived results and quality; Ability to accomplish
something at every given time
- The mind of the leader and the power it possesses; focused on
possibilities and not impossibilities

B. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER

- Integrity/ Ethical
- Perseverance
- Humility
- Dreams and visions
- Risk taker
- Innovative and creative
- Thinker
- Decisive/ Unwavering in decision making
- Sound and good governance
- Problem solver and solution provider
8. PRINCIPLES FOR LEADERSHIP

A. LOVE
- The nature of God
- His love shed abroad in our hearts

B. SERVANTHOOD

- To be great is to be a servant
- Serving God
- Serving His people
- Fulfilling His purpose

C. PURPOSE
- Reason you were created
- Reason you exist
- What you were made for
- How you were made
- Purpose is what births vision
- God’s purpose prevails

D. VISION
- Understanding vision
- Value of vision
- Vision and leadership
- Where there is no vision
- Vision casting and the principles for communication

E. PASSION
- The drive: It makes you take action
- The reason to fight for something you have believed in
- An internal motivation, a willingness to act against all odds until it
works

F. CONVICTION
- A persuasion that makes you not to sit down until something moves
- In ward certainty: Make full proof of something
- A strong stand you take even if it means being alone in it
- Passion and conviction are needed to accomplish a purpose
 G. COMPASSION
- The brokenness of the heart when something is not in order or
required state
- The attention drawer
- The inner person connection: Emotions are involved. The need for this
connection when dealing/working with people

H. VALUES
- Values, the things you esteem high: Placing a higher price on critical
things
- What is it that creates values
- Values and character
- The significance of values

I. CHARACTER
- Defining character
- Developing character
- The attraction of character

J. ACCOUNTABILITY

- It’s a trust
- Stewards give an account
- Accountable to God
- Accountable to self and purpose
- Accountable to others

K. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP

- Ethics, the dos and don’ts of leadership

9. LEADERSHIP SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES ONE NEEDS TO DEVELOP

- You can’t develop what you overlook or underestimate

- Know where you coming short and improve
- Emotional Intelligence
- Relationship building and management
- Problem solving
 - Negotiating skills
- Coaching/mentoring
- Delegating
- Multi-tasking
- Planning and strategizing
- Conflict resolution

10. SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP

A. THE INHERENT LEADERSHIP CAPACITY

- The nature of the Father deposited in you
- You were commanded to manifest it
- He already worked it in you, it’s yours to work it out

B. THE MIND SET TO MANIFEST WHAT YOU ARE AND WHAT YOU CARRY
- The revelation of your true identity
- The revelation of how God looks at you
- Acknowledge and accept who you are and what you are
- The manifestation is your responsibility
C. THE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
- 1st level/basic level: Leadership by blessing
- 2nd level: Leadership by positioning
- 3rd level: Leadership by assignment

D. GROWING IN SPIRITUAL LEADERSHIP LEVELS

- 1st level of progress is Desire
- What does desire do to you?
- Spiritual understanding of desire
- 2nd level of progress is Responsibility (knowing what it takes to grow)
- 3rd level of progress is Commitment
- 4th level of progress is Counsel
- Why is counsel important?
- What is the danger of rushing through the processes?
- The test of your leadership progress is in the shadows of reality
- Biblical examples of shadows of reality. David our case study
 E. THE SEVEN SPIRITS FOR LEADERSHIP EXCELLLENCY
- The Spirit of the Lord
- The Spirit of Wisdom
- The Spirit of Understanding
- The Spirit of Counsel
- The Spirit of Might
- The Spirit of Knowledge
- The Spirit of the Fear of the Lord

F. THE EFFECTS OF THE SEVEN SPIRITS

- Makes one quick of understanding
- Judges not after sight; But with righteousness shall he judge the poor
- Neither reprove after hearing of his ears; but reprove with equity
- Righteousness the girdle of his loins
- Faithfulness the girdle of his reins

11. MAKING FOLLOWERS INTO LEADERS

- A leader is a producer
- He must produce after his kind
- You cannot produce what isn’t built in you
- The quality of leaders you produce is dependent on
- The success of every leader is to multiply himself in others
- The secret to developing leaders
- A legacy of great leadership