Last week I was privileged to take part on a panel of ministry leaders organized by Alpha Canada. The event took place just outside Vancouver, and was simply entitled \u201cJoin the Conversation.\u201d Six of us \u201colder leaders\u201d (ouch!) were invited to engage in leadership discussions with about 25 leaders under the age of 35; and we had a ball!<\/p>\n
In no particular order, here were my highlights and key learnings:<\/p>\n
\u2022\tYoung leaders crave mentoring<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n| <\/td>\n | o <\/td>\n | My generation (the boomers) has tended to process leadership development as a solo sport – not so with the emerging generation. They process in community and deeply desire to be mentored by those who have gone before.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u2022\t Many have felt rebuffed by older leaders<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | o <\/td>\n | One young person shared how an elder in their church had stated publically, \u201cNo one should have a voice in leadership until they\u2019re over 30 years old.\u201d While all agreed that we become more seasoned as leaders with life experience, such attitudes may be driving our best and brightest young leaders away from the Church.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u2022\t\u201cThe day of the expert is sooooo over!\u201d<\/strong>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n | o <\/td>\n | I busily scribbled down this quote from one sharp young leader. He spoke in response to a question about the difference in how the emerging generation learns, compared to \u201cboomers.\u201d My generation has tended to develop most readily by listening to or reading the words of leadership experts like Bill Hybels, John Maxwell, Rick Warren, and other proven leaders. Young leaders do learn from those who have gone before (see note on mentoring), but this flows from relationship, not merely professed expertise.\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n | As I drove home to Kelowna I found myself both excited for the future of the Church in Canada, and at the same time challenged as to how to connect young leaders into meaningful mentoring relationships.<\/p>\n If we can do this, I\u2019m convinced the greatest days for the local church in Canada are still before us.<\/p>\n How are you equipping young leaders in your church?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last week I was privileged to take part on a panel of ministry leaders organized by Alpha Canada. The event took place just outside Vancouver, and was simply entitled \u201cJoin the Conversation.\u201d Six of us \u201colder leaders\u201d (ouch!) were invited to engage in leadership discussions with about 25 leaders under the age of 35; and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,90,4,478,7],"tags":[990,139,133,142,143,137,121,138,134,130,984,131,140,136,141,135,132],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-action","category-canadian","category-community","category-featured","category-leadership","tag-canadian","tag-challenged","tag-emerging","tag-equipping","tag-equipping-young-leaders","tag-excited","tag-experience","tag-future","tag-generation","tag-join-the-conversation","tag-leadership","tag-leadership-discussions","tag-mentoring","tag-pass-the-leadership-baton","tag-relationships","tag-seasoned-leader","tag-young-leaders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2392,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions\/2392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |