My Most Helpful Resource for Organizational Leader Developement

I've spent the past few days locating and listing  the books I have that deal with the subject of organizational leader development.

That exercise reminded me that it has been some time since I've reviewed the most helpful book I used when working with Dr. Dan Bacon on designing the leader development program for OMF International. That book was "Building Leaders" by Dr. Jay Conger of University of Southern California.. Don't confuse this with the much more recent book with the same title by Dr. Aubrey Malphurs of Dallas Theological Seminary.

Conger's approach takes a three-fold perspective of developing leaders for (1) enhancing individual skills; (2) socializing organizational vision and values, and (3) leading organizational strategic initiatives.

Within OMF we developed a program to implement each of these approaches.

1. Our Project Timothy was focused on enhancing individual skill for emerging and current organizational leaders. Project Timothy is an eighteen month program with a week-long training session followed by six months of assignments that build on the training and help participants incorporate the principles into their lives and ministry.
2. Our New Leaders Introductory Course helps newly appointed OMF leaders increase ownership of our vision and values, and orient their leadership to be in harmony with these elements. This is a week-long program held at our international headquarters in Singapore where participants can interact with the top leaders and directors of the mission.
3. Our Organizational Leaders Workshop uses Action Learning methods to engage a group of three to five participants dealing with an existing issue or problem in their ministry under the guidance of a ministry coach. Their goal is to have a solution to implement at the end of the nine months that the program uses over the course of a ministry year. 

A 20 page summary of Conger's book is available by contacting me:

edaviddoug@gmail.com.