Unleashing the hidden potential of your student leaders
By: Jen Bradbury
Publisher: Youth Ministry Partners and Abingdon Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Nashville, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781501835698
Subjects: Church work with youth; Christian leadership
Description: "Unleashing the hidden potential of your student leaders will help you to select, develop, and empower student leaders using the model of Jesus and his disciples. Utilizing this outline for effective student leadership and placing it in a youth ministry context, this book is your guide to connect your student leaders to the wider church and help them become the leaders of the future. Like any worthwhile task, developing student leaders can be difficult, and this resource refuses to shy away from the failures, hard conversations, and awkwardness that are a part of the growing process. Instead, practical tips from the author's own experience as a youth worker will inspire and equip rookie and veteran youth leaders confront these challenges head-on while encouraging them and helping them develop a more mature faith." -- from book cover
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: What is student leadership?; title: Creating a community of misfits; title: Spotting potential: recruiting your team; title: Crafting covenants: establishing and communicating your expectations; title: Abiding in Christ; title: Training student leaders; title: Be awkward so others don't have to be: the primary role of every student leader; title: Discovering the strengths of your student leaders; title: Allowing your student leaders to influence your teaching calendar; title: Equipping student leaders to teach; title: Taking risks and embracing failure; title: The gifts of student leadership.