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5 Practices to Establish Influence, Build People, and Impact Others for a Lifetime. 

If you would like more in depth content on these 10 skills, you can order the book here. Amplified Leadership will teach you how to improve these skills. 

But in this post, I want to give you the outline at a glance. 

Before we jump into the outline, let me offer these three principles:

1. If it's a skill, it can be learned. The 10 skills I will outline can be taught and learned. 
2. You may already have a good grasp of all 10 skills, but that doesn't mean you maintain those skills at a higher lever or larger church. You need to continually learn them as you grow and the church grows. 
3. They are listed in a sequential fashion. They begin more basic and get more nuanced. However, leadership development rarely runs in a straight line. It's not linear. This is just the best way to learn and teach it. 

AMPLIFIED LEADERSHIP
A Relationally-based Process of Leadership Development

10 Core Skills Required to Develop Leaders in the Church:

1) Connect

Leadership begins at the place where we connect at a heart level. Connection is the beginning of all true influence. Authenticity is at the core of connection and is essentially about you being real as a leader, it's about being yourself. You will never connect if you self-protect – (attempt to hide the real you.) 

2) Appreciate

The ability to appreciate people as God made them is the foundation for seeing what they can become. Appreciating people the way they are can seem like a tension for leaders because we want to help people grow, improve and realize their potential. So we challenge because we care about them. But we need to be careful not to push so much that our intentions are misunderstood. It's important that we love and appreciate people the way they are.

3) Encourage

The ability to encourage attracts people to you and builds their self-confidence. Encouragement is the emotional fuel that enables people to hold longer, reach farther and dig deeper than previously believed possible. If you're an encouraging leader, people move toward you simply because you help them think, feel and believe better about themselves. 

4) Inspire

Inspiration connects people with the vision and lifts their sights to new possibilities. All leaders must inspire, not just the senior pastor and senior staff. The cool thing is that you get to inspire by your own style and there are several common styles that you might identify with such as relational, strategic, passion, competence, and coaching.  

5) Invite

The ability to invite with conviction gives people the opportunity to serve in distinctive areas of meaningful ministry. The skill of inviting people into ministry is another way of saying recruiting. Your invitation extends an opportunity to be part of something bigger than they are, one they could not accomplish on their own. Be careful not to dismiss "recruiting" as a management technique. Jesus was a master recruiter. When he said to Peter and Andrew, "Come, follow me, and I will send you out to fish for people," He wanted a yes. 

6) Equip

Training a potential leader in core competencies for specific ministries sets them up for success. Equipping someone involves training them to accomplish specific ministry functions or tasks, such as how to lead a child to Christ or how to demonstrate gifts of hospitality as a greeter. Equipping also helps them carry out the overall responsibility they own as a team member and potential leader for that ministry. 

7) Select

It's a noble thing to prepare the way for someone who might surpass you in leadership. Choosing the right apprentice positions the individual and the church for progress. Making the right selection not only effects the person but the future effectiveness of your church. Ask questions like: Will they follow? Will they serve? Will they learn? Will they sacrifice? And, will they be honest? These questions are just the beginning of a good selection process. 

8) Include

Giving an apprentice real responsibility allows them to experience the reality of leadership. The current leaders need to resist the temptation to protect their territory. Exclusion prevents emerging leaders from rising to their full potential. New leaders need to feel the weight of leadership, be allowed to make mistakes, and learn to take responsibility for the role they carry. 

9) Develop

The emergence of a new leader is a great gift to the kingdom of God. The ability to develop leaders is a transformational skill. Developing is a skill that enables an individual to become a bigger, better, stronger person. It's not only about being a leader in the church, but a better leader at home, at work and in the community. It's a wholistic process that benefits the church, but the person comes first. Grow the leader and they will grow the church. 

10) Empower

True empowerment allows a leader to realize their full potential. Extending trust and transferring authority releases a new leader to fulfill their potential and the mission of the church. Empowerment involves extending authority equal to the level of expected responsibility. And at the core of effective empowerment is trust and a confident belief in them as a leader.

Dan Rowland amplified leadership